China coronavirus: Hong Kong health staff strike to demand border closure as city records first death

Hong Kong has reported its first death related to the novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV, only the second fatality reported outside mainland China, as healthcare workers in the city started unprecedented industrial action to put pressure on the government to close the border and avert an escalation in the number of infections. The 39 year old man, who had an underlying health condition, had travelled to Wuhan on 21 January. In late January, after his...