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China opens new hospitals for virus patients, deaths top 560

by Associated Press
| February 6, 2020 9:05 AM

BEIJING (AP) — China finished building a second new hospital Thursday to isolate and treat patients infected with the new coronavirus and moved people with milder symptoms into makeshift quarantine centers at sports arenas, exhibition halls and other public spaces. Testing of a new antiviral drug, meanwhile, was set to begin on patients.

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