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Coronavirus toll at 0900 GMT Sunday
PARIS, March 15, 2020 (BSS/AFP) – The number of novel coronavirus cases
globally stood at 154,620 with 5,796 deaths, across 139 countries and
territories at 0900 GMT Sunday, according to a tally compiled by AFP from
official sources.
Between the tally at 1700 GMT on Saturday and the latest figures on
Sunday, there were 32 more deaths reported and 2,839 new cases.
The tallies, using data collected by AFP offices from national authorities
and information from the World Health Organization (WHO), take into account
the fact that criteria for counting victims and coronavirus screening
practices vary from country to country.
China — excluding Hong Kong and Macau — where the epidemic was declared
in late December, has to date declared 80,844 cases, for 3,199 deaths, with
66,911 people recovered. The country declared 20 new cases and 10 new
fatalities between Saturday and Sunday.
Outside China, there had been 2,597 deaths by Sunday — 22 since Saturday
— for 73,780 cases, 2,819 of them new.
The worst-hit nation after China is still Italy with 1,441 deaths for
21,157 cases, Iran with 611 fatalities (12,729 cases), Spain, with 183 deaths
for 5,753 cases and France, with 91 deaths and 4,499 cases.
Since Saturday, the Central African Republic and the Seychelles have
diagnosed the first cases on their soil.
By 0900 GMT on Sunday, Asia had listed 91,707 cases and 3,317 deaths,
Europe 44,747 cases and 1,786 deaths, the Middle East 14,011 cases for 625
deaths, the United States and Canada 3,128 cases for 52 deaths, Latin America
and the Caribbean 448 cases and six deaths, Africa 280 cases and seven
deaths, and Oceania 303 cases and three deaths.
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