Over 4,600 deaths have been recorded in China since the outbreak of coronavirus was first identified in Wuhan in December last year.
In the six months since the virus first appeared in the biggest city of China's central Hubei province, there have been 84,081 reported cases in the country with over 79,300 confirmed recoveries. As of Saturday morning, the global infection toll reached 5.2 million, with more than 338,000 deaths and almost 2.1 million recoveries.
Six months on since the novel coronavirus first emerged in Wuhan, its origins are yet to be fully ascertained. This file photo shows a medical worker taking a swab sample from a man being tested for the COVID-19 novel coronavirus in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province on April 16, 2020.One of the hypothesis suggests the virus originated from one of the city's wet markets, where the virus is believed to have jumped from bats to humans possibly via another animal acting as intermediary.
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