The latest: COVID-19 outbreak worldwide (Updated May 24)
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A cleaning worker wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) disinfects Jamaica Market in Mexico City, on May 23, 2020 during the COVID-19 novel coronavirus pandemic. (Photo: AFP)

The total number of deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide has increased to 342,078 with the global confirmed cases reaching 5,309,698 as of 10:30 am BJT on Sunday, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University (JHU).

Current status (data as of 10:30 am BJT, May 24):

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Chinese health authority said on Sunday it received reports of three new confirmed COVID-19 cases on the Chinese mainland on Saturday, among which one was contracted in Jilin Province, and two were imported.

The United States recorded a further 1,127 deaths from COVID-19 on Saturday, bringing its total to 97,087 since the global pandemic began, according to a tally kept by JHU. The country has also officially logged 1,622,605 cases of the virus, far more than any other nation, the tracker kept by the Baltimore-based university showed at 10:30 pm (0230 GMT Sunday).

Brazil saw its death toll passing 22,000 on Saturday from more than 347,000 infections, the second biggest caseload of any country in a pandemic.

Russia is the European country with the highest number of cases (335,882 with 3,388 deaths) and a daily increase of about 10,000 new cases reported since the beginning of May.

The United Kingdom (258,504 cases with 36,757 deaths), Spain (235,290 cases with 28,678 deaths), Italy (229,327 cases with 32,735 deaths) and France (182,036 cases with 28,218 deaths) are the other four worst-hit European countries.

It is followed by Germnay with 8,261 deaths from 179,986 infections, according to a tally by JHU.

The total number of COVID-19 cases in Turkey climbed to 155,686 on Saturday, with 1,186 new daily cases registered, Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said. The death toll surged to 4,308 after 32 new fatalities were reported in the past 24 hours, the minister tweeted.

Iran's Ministry of Health and Medical Education confirmed 1,869 novel coronavirus infections on Saturday, bringing the country's total number of cases to 133,521, according to the state-run IRNA news agency.