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China allocates 1 bln yuan for coronavirus control
January 24, 2020
BEIJING, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- China's Finance Ministry has allocated a total of 1 billion yuan (about 145 million U.S. dollars) to support Hubei Province's battle against a deadly novel coronavirus.
This is the latest move in China to control the outbreak of the novel coronavirus-related pneumonia.
Chinese health authorities announced that 830 confirmed cases of pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) had been reported in 29 provincial-level regions in the country by the end of Thursday.
The pneumonia situation had resulted in 25 deaths, including 24 in central China's Hubei Province and one in north China's Hebei Province■
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