More than 2 million 400 thousand declared cases of COVID-19 have been registered in 193 countries and territories since the epidemic first emerged in December. Of these cases, at least 537 700 are now considered recovered. The global death toll has passed 165 000. World Health Organisation is briefing the media on the latest.

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