Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. Its newsday. Good morning. Its midnight in london, 8am here in singapore and also in beijing, where chinas leader has made a rare public appearance to highlight the governments efforts to combat the coronavirus. Speaking to medical workers, xijinping called for more decisive measures to combat the outbreak. The latest figures released in the past hour by chinese authorities put the total number of deaths from the virus to more than 1,000 with some 40,000 cases confirmed. Celia hatton has our first report. Chinas resident, the man at the pinnacle of the communist party making his first public appearance in days amid a national crisis. Xi jinping told workers are debating Health Facility that he had confidence china would overcome the epidemic. But in a sign of the epidemic. But in a sign of the times, he took all the necessary precautions. It is a special period, he said, so id like not to shake hands. Appearing on C
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