New coronavirus cases top 1,300 globally as China holiday begins

The number of people with pneumonia caused by a new coronavirus first identified in Wuhan topped 1,300 globally on Saturday, just as hundreds of millions of Chinese citizens set out on domestic and overseas trips at the start of the Lunar New Year holiday.The death toll jumped to 41 nationwide from 26 a day before, Chinese health authorities said, with 39 fatalities in the central province of Hubei, of which Wuhan is the capital. Of the 1,300 cases, more than 1,200 are in China and no deaths have been reported elsewhere.Infections have been confirmed in 29 of the country's 31 provincial-lev…READ FULL ARTICLE