Latest on the coronavirus: Global coronavirus cases now top 800,000

Just days after hitting half a million, the number of coronavirus cases worldwide crossed the 800,000 mark on March 30, according to data compiled by U.S.-based Johns Hopkins University.

The virus, also known as COVID-19, which emerged in Wuhan, China last December, has spread to at least 177 countries and regions around the globe, with over 38,714 deaths worldwide.       

More than 170,325 people diagnosed with the virus have so far recovered globally.        

Europe

  • Italy's government on March 30 said it would extend its nationwide lockdown measures against a coronavirus outbreak, due to end on April 3, at least until the Easter season in April, as the number of new infections declines.
  • The death toll has risen by 812 in the last 24 hours, the Civil Protection Agency said, reversing two days of declines, although the number of new cases rose by just 4,050, the lowest increase since March 17, reaching a total of 101,739.
  • The British prime minister's senior adviser, Dominic Cummings, is self-isolating with symptoms just days after the British leader himself tested positive.
  • France recorded its worst daily coronavirus death toll on March 30, exceeding 3,000 for the first time, and army helicopters transported critical patients from the east to hospitals overseas.
  • More than a dozen Russian regions including the city of St Petersburg introduced a partial lockdown.
  • Finland will extend most of its measures to contain the coronavirus outbreak by one month until May 13 from April 13.
  • Denmark may gradually lift a lockdown after Easter if the numbers of coronavirus cases and deaths remain stable.
  • Spain overtook China in the number of those infected with...
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