Cases of a new coronavirus in mainland China have jumped to around 9,700, with 213 deaths, the Chinese government said Friday, following the World Health Organization's overnight declaration of the outbreak as a global public health emergency.With the pneumonia-causing virus continuing its rapid spread, Britain and South Korea joined other countries that have evacuated their citizens from the central Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicenter of the outbreak.China's National Health Commission said the number of infections rose by around 1,980 on Thursday from the previous day, with the death toll…READ FULL ARTICLE
