The worldwide number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus disease has reached 1,015,709, according to Johns Hopkins University.
China has registered 29 new imported cases of COVID-19 and two cases of internal transmission within the past 24 hours, with four people having died of the disease, the National Health Commission said on Friday.
No new cases of the coronavirus have been registered in the province of Hubei, where the city of Wuhan – the epicenter of the pandemic – is located.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), almost 5,000 people have died of the disease worldwide within the past 24 hours.
The outbreak of COVID-19, which was declared a pandemic on 11 March by the World Health Organization, erupted in late December in Wuhan and left 81,620 Chinese citizens infected, with 3,322 fatalities, according to the National Health Commission.
To date, more than 1 million people have been infected with the coronavirus worldwide, with about 53,000 fatalities, according to Johns Hopkins University.
(sputniknews.com)
