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A medical staff member getting lunch boxes for patients through a window in an isolation ward at a hospital in Wuhan. The World Health Organization declared a global emergency over the new coronavirus, as China reported January 31 the death toll had climbed to 213 with nearly 10,000 infections.

Doctors watch as donated medical supplies from Beijing are unloaded at a hospital in Wuhan.

A doctor working inside an isolation ward at a hospital in Wuhan.

Medical staff attending to patients in Wuhan.

Officials in protective suits gathered on a street after an elderly man wearing a facemask (not pictured) collapsed and died on the pavement near a hospital in Wuhan.

People dressed in protective clothes disinfect an area in Wuhan.

A doctor attends to a patient in an isolation ward at a hospital in Wuhan.

Medical staff in protective clothes are seen carrying a patient from an apartment suspected of having the virus in Wuhan.

A doctor putting on a protective suit before entering the isolation ward at a hospital in Wuhan.

Staff members of a funeral parlour wearing protective suits disinfecting a colleague after they transferred a body at a hospital in Wuhan.

Medical staff in protective clothes are seen carrying a patient from an apartment suspected of having the virus in Wuhan.

A doctor wearing a facemask looking at a lung CT image from a patient at a hospital in Wuhan.

A doctor putting on a pair of protective glasses before entering the isolation ward at a hospital in Wuhan.

A medical worker attends to a patient in the intensive care unit in Wuhan.

Officials in protective suits checking on an elderly man wearing a facemask who collapsed and died on a street near a hospital in Wuhan.