<span style="color: #222222;">World Health Organization said there are over 90,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 3,056 deaths reported globally in 67 countries.<br />''The Novel Corona virus death toll in China climbed to 2,943 with 31 more deaths. &nbsp;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 />''&nbsp;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. He said it has never been seen in past that a respiratory pathogen 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.</span><br />
News On AIR | March 3, 2020 2:31 PM
WHO confirms over 90,000 cases of Novel Corona virus COVID-19 till date