Factbox: Latest on coronavirus spreading in China and beyond
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The deserted shopping malls and cinemas of South Korea’s Daegu, a city of 2.5 million people, became one of the most striking images outside China of an outbreak that international authorities are trying stop from becoming a global pandemic.