PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte assured Filipinos on Monday night that "everything is well in the country", a day after the first death outside China from the 2019 novel coronavirus was reported in the Philippines.

In a briefing, Duterte said that "everything is well in the country. There's nothing really to be extra scared of that coronavirus thing. Although it has affected a lot of countries...one or two in any country is not really that fearsome."

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