Coronavirus live updates: first Hong Kong death reported as China cases pass 20,000 – latest news
Thirty-nine year old man in Hong Kong believed to have had underlying condition. Death is only second outside mainland China – latest updates
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The Chinese women’s football team have been forced to train in hotel corridors ahead of their Olympic qualifying opener in Sydney on Friday.
The team has been in isolation at a Brisbane CBD hotel since their arrival in Australia last week due to strict protocols in response to the coronavirus outbreak.
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The city of Taizhou, 860km east of Wuhan, and three districts of the city of Hangzhou (capital of China’s Zhejiang province) – including the area with the main office of Chinese tech giant Alibaba – will now only allow one person per household to go outside every two days to buy necessities, AFP is reporting officials saying.
#UPDATE The city of Taizhou and three districts of the city of Hangzhou — including the area with the main office of Chinese tech giant Alibaba — will now only allow one person per household to go outside every two days to buy necessities, officials say#coronavirus pic.twitter.com/wmWCM0e3Ye