Woman wears protective mask at the Termini Station in Rome, Italy. - AAP
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The World Health Organisation has named the illness COVID-19, referring to its origin late last year and the coronavirus that causes it.
Here are the latest figures reported by each government's health authority as of Tuesday in Beijing:
- Mainland China: 2663 deaths among 77,658 cases, mostly in the central province of Hubei
- Hong Kong: 81 cases, 2 deaths
- Macao: 10 cases
- Japan: 850 cases, including 691 from a cruise ship docked in Yokohama, 4 deaths
- South Korea: 977 cases, 10 deaths
- Italy: 229 cases, 7 deaths
- Singapore: 89 cases
- Iran: 61 cases, 12 deaths
- United States: 35 cases; separately, 1 US citizen died in China
- Thailand: 37 cases
- Taiwan: 30 cases, 1 death
- Australia: 23 cases
- Malaysia: 22
- Vietnam: 16 cases
- Germany: 16
- France: 12 cases, 1 death
- United Arab Emirates: 13 cases
- United Kingdom: 13
- Canada: 11
- Bahrain: 8
- Philippines: 3 cases, 1 death
- Kuwait: 3 cases
- India: 3
- Russia: 2
- Spain: 3
- Israel: 2
- Oman: 2
- Lebanon: 1
- Belgium: 1
- Nepal: 1
- Sri Lanka: 1
- Sweden: 1
- Cambodia: 1
- Finland: 1
- Egypt: 1
- Afghanistan: 1
