BEIJING (Reuters) -- An American became the first confirmed non-Chinese victim of the new coronavirus on Saturday while a Japanese man also died with symptoms consistent with the disease, as the epidemic looked set to pass the death toll from the SARS pandemic.
The 60-year old U.S. citizen diagnosed with coronavirus died at Jinyintan Hospital in China's Wuhan, the epicenter of the virus outbreak, on Feb. 6, a U.S. embassy spokesman in Beijing said.
