The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed today, Tuesday, that 85% of the newly reported cases infected with the novel of Coronavirus (COVID-19) reported in the past 24 hours have been registered in Europe and the United States of America (USA).
WHO Spokeswoman Margaret Harris said that the death toll of the Coronavirus’ is expected to rise from 14510 deaths now to an unknown number in the near future.
The organization reports new confirmed cases across the planet.
Harris added that there is a "very large acceleration" in the number of cases of the Coronavirus in the United States, which could become a center of the outbreak.
On the other hand, she made it clear that the organization sees "a spark of hope" in Italy after recording fewer infections and deaths there.
However, more than 100,000 cases infected with the novel Coronavirus have recovered in the world since the outbreak of the disease in China in late December.
Today, Monday, 23 March, the recovery of more than 100,000 infected people from the new Coronavirus has been registered in various countries across the world.
According to official and semi-official press reports and statistics, about 100,658 people have recovered from the Coronavirus.
Press reports from China revealed that at least two cases of patients with the novel Coronavirus over 100 years old, and a third case in the ninth decade, all recovered from the deadly disease that killed more than 126 thousand people around the world.
The latest news on recovery cases for the elderly is from a Chinese grandmother from Wuhan, the epidemic outbreak center, who recovered from the novel Coronavirus after only 6 days of treatment, and the patient, Zhang Guangfen, 103, was discharged from hospital.
It is worth noting that the number of people infected with Coronavirus in the world has reached 360,669 to date, of whom 15,491 people have died.
US Senate on Monday failed for the second time to clear a key procedural hurdle to advance a $2 trillion stimulus package designed to provide economic relief to American workers and industries battered by the coronavirus outbreak. The Senate's inaction has weighed heavily on financial markets, in spite of the Federal Reserve's promise to shore up businesses large and small.
The World Health Organization on Monday said the pandemic is accelerating. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of WHO, said it took 67 days from the first case to reach 100,000 cases, 11 days for the second 100,000 cases and four days for the next 100,000 cases.
More than 34,000 people have contracted the virus in the U.S., and at least 485 people have died across the country, according to John Hopkins University. Worldwide, the number of confirmed coronavirus cases is nearing 350,000, with at least 15,000 deaths.
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