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The number of known coronavirus cases jumped by 1,737 to to 7,771 in China on Jan. 30 morning including the first confirmed case in Tibet, according to health authorities, raising the global total to almost 8,000 – and nearing the total infections worldwide in the Sars outbreak of 2002-03.

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