Coronavirus cases top 90,000 worldwide: WHO chief

The number of novel coronavirus cases in the world has topped 90,000, World Health Organization chief Tedros Ghebreyesus said Tuesday."There is now a total of 90,893 reported cases of COVID-19 globally, and 3,110 deaths," the WHO director general said in a press briefing, referring to the virus by its official name.Of 1,848 cases reported outside China over the past 48 hours, 80 percent are from three countries: Iran, Italy and South Korea.The WHO chief also said the pace of the increase in coronavirus cases in China was the slowest since late January.On Monday, Tedros singled out the epide…READ FULL ARTICLE