Remember SARS? New Virus Spreading In China Kills Sixth Person

China is facing another deadly epidemic of the virus that lead to the SARS panic in the early 2000s.

The new version of the coronavirus, a type of pathogen that causes a range of illness including the common cold and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) has claimed its sixth life in the communist nation, CNN reported. China now has more than 300 confirmed cases of the virus as of Monday, and The Wall Street Journal reported that it has “spread quickly around the country and across Asia, infecting 156 new patients in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and other densely-populated cities, and reaching South Korea for the first time—a major escalation in the pneumonia-like disease’s transmission.”