The country's foreign minister made the remark after an 80-year-old man became the first person to die from the illness in Europe.
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When asked earlier about the spread of the virus, the Chinese foreign minister said:"Any assessment needs to be based on facts. "The number of people killed has been rising for 15 days, and new infections have been declining for 12 days.France's health minister Agnes Buzyn announced the first coronavirus death in Europe on Saturday.
She said:"I was informed last night of the death of an 80-year-old patient who had been hospitalised... since 25 January."The patient was a Chinese tourist from Hubei province, the epicentre of the outbreak, and had a lung infection caused by COVID-19 - the disease caused by the coronavirus. He arrived in France on 16 January and was then hospitalised on 25 January under strict isolation measures.His daughter was also hospitalised but authorities say she is expected to recover.Europe has 46 cases of the virus that first emerged in central China in December.The virus has infected more than 67,000 people globally.
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