BEIJING, April 6 (Xinhua) -- The world is now in a battle against COVID-19, a disease caused by a previously unknown coronavirus that has spread to over 200 countries and regions.
The following are the updates on the contagious disease.
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NEW DELHI -- India's federal health ministry Monday morning said the death toll from COVID-19 in India rose to 109 and that the total number of confirmed cases in the country reached 4,067.
This is a jump of 26 deaths and an increase of 490 cases since Sunday evening.
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KABUL -- Thirty more confirmed COVID-19 cases have been reported in Afghanistan, bringing the number of the infected people in the country to 367 as of Monday morning, a Ministry of Public Health spokesman confirmed.
Sixteen of the new cases were confirmed in western Herat province, the country's epicenter of the disease bordering Iran, six cases were recorded in the capital of Kabul, three in Nimroz province, two in Kunduz province, two in Faryab and one in Daikundi provinces, respectively, Wahidullah Mayar, the spokesman said in a statement.
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SUVA -- Fiji confirmed on Monday two more COVID-19 cases, bringing the tally to 14.
In a televised speech on Monday afternoon, Fiji's Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama said that the first new case is the wife of the 54-year-old man from Labasa, a city in Fiji's second largest island of Vanua Levu, who is the father of patients 6 and 7 (a couple) at Nabua, Suva.
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CANBERRA -- Popular support for Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has surged to a record high amid the coronavirus crisis, according to a recent poll.
The latest edition of Newspoll published on Sunday night revealed universal support for the government's 130 billion Australian dollar (77.9 billion U.S. dollar) wage subsidy scheme.
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WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Donald Trump claimed Sunday that some 1.6 million people in the United States have been tested for COVID-19 and received results.
Trump, who made the remarks during the White House Coronavirus Task Force news briefing, said that by Tuesday, 3,000 military and public health workers will have been deployed across the nation to cope with the pandemic.
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WASHINGTON -- While a recent study shows that U.S. unemployment rate could jump to 32 percent due to the spread of COVID-19, the U.S. job market was not in "free fall", a senior U.S. Federal Reserve official said on Sunday.
"I would push back against the idea of the economy or the job market being in free fall," James Bullard, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, said in the "Face the Nation" program on CBS.
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WASHINGTON -- The anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine will be used in a trial covering 3,000 patients at a hospital in Detroit, Michigan, and the results will be tracked in a formal study, said U.S. Vice President Mike Pence on Sunday.
Pence told a White House briefing that they are "more than prepared" to make hydroxychloroquine available to doctors' offices and pharmacies in the Detroit area.
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CANBERRA -- Australia's Chief Medical Officer Brendan Murphy said on Sunday that Australia was in a "good place" in its response to the virus, with the spread having slowed significantly in recent days.
In the 24 hours prior to Murphy's press conference, 139 additional cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in Australia, bringing the national total to 5,687.
