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BEIJING: About 115 more people died from the coronavirus on Friday in Hubei province, making the death count in China  jump to 2,233.

TEHRAN: Two people have died in Iran on Wednesday due to coronavirus, said the health ministry in the Islamic republic’s first cases of the epidemic.

LAHORE: The UN chief Antonio Guterres visited the revered Gurdwara Darbar Sahib Kartarpur in Pakistan’s Narowal town.

BEIJING, CHINA: Liu Zhiming, the director of Wuchang Hospital in Wuhan, the epicentre of China’s virus epidemic, died on Tuesday due to coronavirus, reports state media.

­LONDON: A man in his 60s died after felling into a river on Sunday as Storm Dennis hit UK with heavy raining and high winds. The man fell into the River Tawe, in south Wales, said police, adding that he was being pulled from a river in the Ystradgynlais area, …

BEIJING, CHINA: The number of deaths from coronavirus breached 1,700 in China on Monday.

PARIS: French Health Minister Agnes Buzyn on Saturday confirmed that a Chinese tourist has died of new deadly coronavirus in France.

ABBOTTABAD, PAKISTAN: The first suspected coronavirus case was reported in Abbottabad, a city in Pakistan. The suspected person had recently returned to China – the heart of the epidemic.

LONDON: In a cabinet reshuffle, Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday appointed Indian-origin politician Rishi Sunak as the new finance minister of UK.

BEIJING, CHINA: The death toll in China from coronavirus spiked to 1,483 on Friday. The number of new infections in virus hit Hubei province fell after a change in case definitions caused a huge increase the previous day. There were 116 more deaths and 4,823 new cases – majority involving …