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LILLE, France, May 28 (Reuters) – 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 on Tuesday.

The French health ministry did not immediately confirm the

death from the virus, which has killed 22 people worldwide.

(Reporting by Pierre Savary; Writing by Catherine Bremer;

editing by Mark John)