The first person to fall ill in France with the new SARS-like coronavirus, a 65-year-old man who had been travelling in Dubai, has died from the illness, a source at the hospital treating him said.

The French health ministry did not immediately confirm the death from the virus, which has killed 22 people worldwide.

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