The Philippines reported the first death on Sunday outside of
China from a new coronavirus, deepening global fears about an epidemic that has claimed more than 300 lives.
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The first foreign fatality came as an escalating number of governments around the world closed their borders to people from China in a bid to stop it spreading.
It also came as China entered a perilous new phase, with people resuming travel at the end of a Lunar New Year holiday that had been extended to contain the disease.