Global coronavirus death toll hits 150,000: Reuters tally

The first death came in the central Chinese city of Wuhan on Jan. 9.The death toll is still far short of the so-called Spanish flu, which began in 1918 and is estimated to have killed more than 20 million people by the time it petered out in 1920.The novel coronavirus is believed to have emerged in a Wuhan market where wild animals were sold before quickly spreading around the world.