At first, Connor was terrified he was going to die.
: ‘I was stunned when the doctors told me I was suffering from the virus. I thought I was going to die but I managed to beat it.
Connor, who moved to Wuhan last summer to teach English, said the city has become a ‘ghost town’ with barely any fresh food supplies available in stores. ‘If you go out without a mask the police will arrest you,’ he added. ‘The authorities are really worried about how to contain this and stop it spreading.’
A man in the Philippines became the first person to die this weekend from the virus outside China, where the number of confirmed cases of infection had increased to 14,380.
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