Coronavirus kills 259 in China

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A G E N CIES u2018 China covering up number of NCoVu2019 LONDON: A British teacher, who is stranded in the Chinese city of Wuhan, which is the epicentre of the outbreak, has said that authorities were covering up the actual number of fatalities due to the disease, a media report said.

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