BEIJING/MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines on Sunday reported the growing epidemic of a coronavirus has claimed its first fatality outside of
China, where new confirmed infections jumped by a daily record to top 14,000 cases.
The Philippines Department of Health said a 44-year-old man from Wuhan city in central Hubei province, the epicentre of the outbreak, had died in a Manila hospital after developing severe pneumonia.
It was the first death out of more than 130 cases reported in around two dozen countries and regions outside of mainland China.