By: TP News     Date: 3/20/2020 8:45:49 PM

World :Italy announced 627 more deaths on Friday, the biggest day-to-day increase in the country's four-week epidemic, a day after surpassing China's death toll. The total number of deaths in Italy reached 4,032.
The death toll from the new Coronavirus has surpassed 5,000 in Europe - the new epicentre of the pandemic - as Italy, Germany and Spain reported a steep rise in infections.

More than 209,000 people have been infected by the coronavirus globally and more than 8,700 have died, according to the World Health Organization. 

At least 87,000 have recovered from COVID-19, according to data collected by the Johns Hopkins University in the United States. JHU's global death toll has surpassed 10,000. 

French health authorities reported 78 new deaths from coronavirus, taking the total to 450 or an increase of 21 percent.

During a news conference, health agency director Jerome Salomon said the number of cases had risen to 12,612, up from 10,995 on Thursday, a rise of 15 percent in 24 hours.

The head of the World Health Organization has warned young people they are "not invincible" against the coronavirus pandemic, and said their self-restraint could save the lives of older people.

"Today, I have a message for young people: you are not invincible. This virus could put you in hospital for weeks, or even kill you," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a virtual press conference in Geneva.