Live COVID-19 updates: WHO congratulates Wuhan on clearing all COVID-19 cases
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BEIJING, May 2 (Xinhua) -- The following are the updates on the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
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GENEVA -- The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday welcomed the news that there are no more hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Wuhan, China, praising its people's "tireless efforts" to combat the pandemic.
After more than three months of arduous fight, Wuhan, the central Chinese city once hardest hit by the coronavirus outbreak, cleared all COVID-19 cases in hospitals on Sunday.
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SEOUL -- South Korea reported six more cases of the COVID-19 compared to 24 hours ago as of 0:00 a.m. Saturday local time, raising the total number of infections to 10,780.
The daily caseload hovered below 20 for 15 straight days. All the new cases were imported, lifting the combined number to 1,081.
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NEW YORK -- The number of COVID-19 cases in the United States reached 1,100,197 as of 7:40 p.m. (2340 GMT) Friday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.
Meanwhile, the death toll from the disease in the country hit 64,789.
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GENEVA -- The World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday that the COVID-19 outbreak still constitutes a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.
"Of course, the COVID-19 pandemic remains a Public Health Emergency of International Concern," he announced at a virtual press conference from Geneva.
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PARIS -- A further 218 COVID-19 patients died in France in the past 24 hours, the smallest one-day increase since the end of March, health ministry director Jerome Salomon said Friday at a press briefing.
The new deaths took the country's toll from the novel coronavirus to 24,594, Salomon said.
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LONDON -- British Health Secretary Matt Hancock said Friday that the country has met the goal of 100,000 tests per day as another 739 COVID-19 patients have died, bringing the total coronavirus-related death toll to 27,510 in Britain.
A total of 122,347 tests were carried out on Thursday, he told reporters.
As of Friday morning, 177,454 people have tested positive for the disease, said Hancock during the Downing Street daily press briefing. Endtitem
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