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101 Countries Now Affected by Coronavirus, Death Toll Outside of China Surpasses 480 - WHO

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Over 100 countries are now affected by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) with the total number of confirmed cases worldwide having surpassed 105,580, the latest situation report of the World Health Organization (WHO) says.
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"8 new countries/territories/areas (Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Faroe Islands, French Guiana, Maldives, Malta, Martinique, and the Republic of Moldova) have reported cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours", the Sunday situation report says.

According to the latest WHO figures, there are currently 101 coronavirus-affected countries. In China, 80,859 cases have been confirmed, while outside of China there are 24,727 confirmed coronavirus cases (over 3,600 of them are newly-reported cases).

The coronavirus death toll in China is 3,100 while outside of China 484 people have died from COVID-19, according to the WHO, which says that 71 new deaths have been reported outside of China since the previous WHO situation report.

COVID-19 was first detected in China's Wuhan in late December and has since spread across the world. In late January, the World Health Organisation declared a global health emergency in light of the epidemic.

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