<span style="color: #222222;">The Novel Corona virus death toll in China climbed to 2,943 with 31 more deaths while 125 new confirmed cases were reported, the lowest since the virus outbreak in the country, Chinese health officials said today even as the total number of deaths crossing 3,000 globally and infections surging past 89,000.<br />''<br />''According to the World Health Organization, there are 89,527 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 3,056 deaths reported globally in 67 countries. In terms of confirmed cases in China, officials said Monday's numbers were the lowest since the country began to report about the Corona virus epidemic, showing signs of stabilizing, especially in the Chinese mainland.<br />''<br />''WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus tweeted  that understanding the epidemic is the first step to defeating it. We have never before seen a respiratory pathogen that is capable of community transmission. He said, the infection spreads from person to person mainly through the droplets produced when an infected person speaks, coughs or sneezes. WHO has been advising countries to take actions on the first case, first cluster, first evidence of community transmission.<br />''<br />''Meanwhile, six people died of the deadly virus in the United States and South Korea reported 29 COVID-19 deaths. In Japan, 12 people died of the disease. Italy reported a jump in the death toll to 52, with more than 2,036 people infected with the virus.<br />''In Iran, the virus has claimed 66 lives, while confirmed cases climbed to more than 1,500. Three people have died of the disease in France, while the confirmed cases increased to 191.</span><br />