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Coronavirus

China new virus found in Thailand as Spring Festival travel begins

Fear of global outbreak grows as millions travel abroad for the holidays

Travelers waited for their train at a railway station in Beijing on Jan. 10 as the annual Spring Festival travel rush began ahead of the Chinese Lunar New Year.   © Reuters
YOHEI MURAMATSU, Nikkei staff writer | Thailand

BANGKOK -- A Chinese woman has been quarantined in Thailand with a new strain of coronavirus, the first confirmed case outside mainland China.

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