France coronavirus death toll tops 10,000: Live updates
Higher number of daily deaths reported in Spain, as Japan declares state of emergency over COVID-19 pandemic.
France has become the fourth country to register more than 10,000 deaths due to coronavirus, while New York reported 731 new fatalities, the highest overnight jump since the beginning of the outbreak.
Meanwhile, Spain on Tuesday recorded a slight increase in the daily death toll for the first time in five days, with 743 people succumbing overnight.
Japan declared a state of emergency
amid a spike in coronavirus cases, as Singapore began a partial lockdown
and other countries extended stay-at-home orders to curb the spread of
the disease.
In the UK, Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who was diagnosed with
coronavirus late last month, was moved to intensive care in a London
hospital after his condition worsened on Monday evening.Globally, the number of people diagnosed with the virus now exceeds 1.3 million. More than 74,500 people have died while nearly 285,000 have recovered, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
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