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.
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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