There have been 10,566 confirmed cases of the COVID-19 from 72 countries outside China, with 166 deaths, statistics from the World Health Organization (WHO) showed Wednesday.

In the past 24 hours, 1,792 newly confirmed cases outside China have been reported. Eight new Member States (Andorra, Jordan, Latvia, Morocco, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, and Tunisia) reported COVID-19 cases.

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South Korea confirmed 293 more cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, raising the total number of infections to 5,621, according to Yonhap News Agency.

Japan confirmed over 1,032 COVID-19 cases as of 10 pm on Wednesday, local time, and 12 people have died.

Italy reported a total of 79 deaths of COVID-19, with 466 newly infected cases, taking the total number to 2,502 on Tuesday local time.

Iran: The novel coronavirus has now claimed 92 lives out of more than 2,922 cases in Iran on Wednesday local time.

The US' death toll from the COVID-19 rose to nine on Tuesday local time. Nationwide, there are more than 100 confirmed cases.

France announced on Tuesday that 21 new cases of Covid-19 had been identified in France with a total of 212 cases now diagnosed, of which 12 were cured and four have died.