World total of new coronavirus infections exceeds SARS

The number of confirmed cases of a new pneumonia-causing coronavirus raging in China has topped 8,100 across the globe, exceeding the level of SARS virus infections during its 2002-2003 spread, Chinese media reported Thursday.In China, the Tibet Autonomous Region has confirmed its first patient with the new coronavirus, health authorities said, meaning the illness has spread to all of the country's 31 provincial-level regions.The death toll in China from the new virus has increased to over 170, including nearly 130 in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicenter of the outbreak, while a…READ FULL ARTICLE