The WHO is holding a conference in Geneva on combatting the virus as Beijing struggles to contain a disease that has now infected more than 42,000 and reached some 25 countries.
The death toll has now reached 1,016, although the mortality rate remains relatively low at 2.4 percent. Of those infected, five were hospitalised in France, five in Britain and one on the Spanish island of Mallorca. The biggest cluster of cases outside China is aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship moored off Japan, where 135 people have been positively diagnosed.
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