A cleaner sanitizes a wagon on a regional train, at the Garibaldi train station in Milan, Italy, Friday, Feb. 28, 2020. (Photo: AP)

There have been 17,481 confirmed cases of the COVID-19 outside China, with 335 more deaths, statistics from the World Health Organization (WHO) showed Friday.

In the past 24 hours, at least 2,727 newly confirmed cases outside China have been reported and four new countries (Bhutan, Cameroon, Serbia, and South Africa) have reported cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, according to WHO statistics.

(Data sources: WHO, Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Japanese Ministry of Health, Welfare and Labor, Department of Health and Social Care, Press TV, Straits Times)

Current status (data as of 10 am BJT, March 7):

South Korea confirmed 483 more cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, raising the total number of infections to 6,767, according to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC).

Italy reported a total of 197 deaths and the total number of infections reached 4,680 on Friday.

The novel coronavirus has now claimed 124 lives out of more than 4,744 cases in Iran on Friday.

France reported a total of 9 deaths and the total number of infections reached 613 on Friday.

The death toll stood at 12 in US on Friday. Nationwide, there are 327 confirmed cases.