Daily deaths from coronavirus in China top 200 for 1st time

BEIJING - China's daily death toll from a new pneumonia-causing coronavirus has topped 200 for the first time, bringing the total on the mainland to 1,355, according to data released by local health authorities on Thursday.The authorities in worst-hit Hubei Province said the number of people infected with the virus there jumped by 14,840 after changing their diagnostic criteria to bring them into line with national ones.The largest daily increase during the outbreak has brought the total number of infections on the mainland close to 60,000. The number of new deaths reported in Hubei came t…READ FULL ARTICLE