NEW YORK (AFP, BLOOMBERG) - A US citizen has died from the new coronavirus at the epicentre of the epidemic in China, the US embassy said on Saturday (Feb 8), in what appeared to be the first confirmed foreign death from the outbreak.

“We can confirm that a 60-year-old US citizen diagnosed with coronavirus died at a hospital in Wuhan, China, on February 6,” an embassy spokesman told AFP, without specifying the person’s gender.