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WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump moved to quell fears about the novel coronavirus after the first death on US soil was confirmed Saturday.
The virus has now hit 61 countries across the globe, with more than 2,900 people killed and nearly 86,000 infected since it was first detected in the central Chinese city of Wuhan late last year. The virus has also spread to previously untouched areas in recent days, reaching new countries including Azerbaijan, Mexico and New Zealand, as well as the first case in sub-Saharan Africa with Nigeria reporting a case.“We have now increased our assessment of the risk of spread and the risk of impact of Covid-19 to very high at global level,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters on Friday.
US health officials reported three more cases of the new coronavirus transmitted to people who did not travel overseas or come in contact with anyone known to be ill, indicating the disease was spreading in the country.
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