Hundreds of foreigners evacuated from Wuhan as number of confirmed cases in China reaches almost 6,000
Japan and the US have airlifted hundreds of their citizens from Wuhan, the centre of the coronavirus outbreak, as officials in China said the death toll from the disease had risen sharply overnight to 132, with nearly 1,500 new cases in the country.
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