Singapore raises coronavirus alert to SARS level as new cases show spread


FILE PHOTO: A woman waits at a void deck to collect free face masks in Singapore February 1, 2020. REUTERS/Feline Lim

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore on Friday reported three more coronavirus cases that have not been linked to previous infections or travel to China, prompting it to raise its alert to orange, the same level it reached during the SARS outbreak in 2003.

Singapore now has 33 confirmed coronavirus cases.

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