More than half of patients diagnosed with novel coronavirus in China have recovered and released from hospitals showing that results have been achieved with disease control.
A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson, Zhao Lijian, spoke to newsmen in Beijing and said a total of 44,462 cases of discharged patients have been cured in the region.
Meanwhile, the novel coronavirus ‘ global death toll has outpaced three thousand.
The number of deaths from the novel coronavirus in the United States has risen to six in the state of Washington county of Seattle.
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A third person in France has died from the latest coronavirus.
Portugal, Iceland, Jordan, Tunisia, Armenia, Latvia, Senegal and Andorra have had their first confirmed cases registered.
