[Photo courtesy of National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japan]
BEIJING - A Japanese man suspected of being infected with a new coronavirus has died in the Chinese city of Wuhan, Japan's Foreign Ministry said Saturday, in what would be the first Japanese death resulting from the deadly virus.
The man in his 60s had been hospitalized since Jan. 22 with severe pneumonia.
The hospital in the city, the center of the outbreak, said it had tested the man for the virus but it had notified the Japanese government that it was unable to conclude whether he was infected.
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