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The number of new coronavirus cases for the past week has "exceeded 160,000 on every single day," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says at a virtual briefing, while reiterating that taking a "comprehensive approach" is the best way to rein in the virus. SOUNDBITE of a WHO virtual press conference
"We are now having 40-plus thousand new cases a day. I would not be surprised if we go up to 100,000 a day if this does not turn around," warns top US infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci as he testifies before the Senate. SOUNDBITE
Britain records 55 deaths in the coronavirus outbreak in the last 24 hours - the lowest total since March 21, with Scotland now going two days without a fatality. SOUNDBITE
The coronavirus pandemic has claimed more than 200,000 deaths worldwide, nearly 90 percent of which were in Europe or the United States, according to an AFP tally at 1900 GMT on Saturday based on official figures. ANIMATED VIDEO
British Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Alok Sharma says that 563 people have died from coronavirus in the UK in one day, a new record marking a clear acceleration of the pandemic and bringing the death toll to 2,352, up 563 on the previous day. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Health Secretary Matt Hancock and the heir to the throne, Prince Charles, have all tested positive for COVID-19. SOUNDBITE
The coronavirus has caused four more deaths in France, bringing the total death toll to 25, Health Director Jérôme Salomon has announced. Among the dead, fifteen are men and ten are women, he said. SOUNDBITE
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