Coronavirus death toll spikes to 132

People wait in line to buy protective masks at a shopping mall in Hong Kong on Wednesday. Picture: BLOOMBERG/JUSTIN CHIN

“All options for dealing with infectious disease spread have to be on the table, including travel restrictions,” said US health secretary Alex Azar. China’s National Health Commission said the total of deaths from the flu-like virus rose by 26 on Tuesday to 132, almost all in the province of Hubei which is under virtual lockdown, while the number of confirmed cases rose by 1,459 to stand at 5,974. The number of cases in China now exceeds its tally of 5,327 infected with the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus that killed about 800 people around the world in 2002/2003.

Australia said it would help some citizens leave Hubei and quarantine them on Christmas Island, a remote speck in the Indian Ocean best known for housing asylum seekers. The epidemic broke out on the eve of China’s Lunar New Year holidays, when millions of Chinese travel abroad and at home. Many of those flights have now been cancelled, and airports globally are screening passengers from China for signs of infection.

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