More than 200,000 people globally have now succumbed to the coronavirus. There are more than 2.9 million confirmed cases of COVID-19, according to the tally.
It comes after the number of fatalities in the US passed 50,000, as Americans endure the world's deadliest outbreak. On 11 January, Chinese state media reported the first known death liked to the virus. More than 210 countries and territories have since reported cases.
A staff carries out a general disinfection at the Padre Zyruta residence in Spain
There have been 22,614 virus deaths in France since the start of March, but the country's health officials say the mortality rate in hospitals is falling, and the number of people in intensive care has dropped for the seventeenth consecutive day.
Earlier this week, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) highlighted upward trends in Covid-19 cases in Africa, Eastern Europe, Central America and South America.
A sign thanking frontline workers is seen on an apartment window in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, U.S., Wednesday, April 8, 2020
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that while most of the epidemics in Western Europe appeared to be stable or in decline, for many countries the disease was just getting started.
Spraying disinfectant at the Rialto Bridge in Venice