BEIJING, May 6 (Xinhua) -- The following are the updates on the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
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LONDON -- Britain has overtaken Italy as the worst-hit country in Europe by the novel coronavirus, according to the latest official figures released on Tuesday.
Chairing Tuesday's Downing Street press briefing, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said another 693 COVID-19 patients have died, bringing the total coronavirus-related death toll in Britain to 29,427.
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NEW YORK -- The number of COVID-19 cases in the United States reached 1,201,337 as of 6 p.m. (2200 GMT) Tuesday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.
Meanwhile, the death toll from the disease in the country hit 70,646.
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NEW YORK -- The number of COVID-19 deaths in the United States topped 70,000 on Tuesday, reaching 70,115 as of 2:15 p.m. (1815 GMT), according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.
A total of 1,192,119 cases have been reported in the country, according to the CSSE.
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MEXICO CITY -- Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Tuesday that he hoped to gradually reopen productive and social activities on May 17 in light of the evidence of a slowdown in the spread of COVID-19 in the country.
The president said that activities could be generally resumed at the end of the month, provided that the health situation in the country does not worsen.
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OTTAWA -- Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday announced 252 million Canadian dollars (179 million U.S. dollars) to the agri-food sector to help protect farmers and food processors against the COVID-19 pandemic.
The money can be used to buy personal protective equipment for workers, adapt to health protocols and support other social distancing measures, Trudeau said at his press conference in Ottawa.
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NEW YORK -- ICBC US Region, a financial service group comprising ICBC New York Branch, ICBC USA, ICBC Financial Service LLC and ICBC Standard New York, has donated 100,000 N95 masks to two hospitals in New York City to help combat COVID-19, said a release by ICBC US Region.
ICBC US Region provided 50,000 N95 masks to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center in Queens borough and Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn borough, respectively, according to the release obtained by Xinhua on Tuesday.
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ANKARA -- Turkey on Tuesday confirmed 1,832 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number in the country to 129,491.
The deaths from the coronavirus have reached 3,520 after 59 new fatalities in the past 24 hours, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca tweeted.
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CHICAGO -- Wanxiang Group, a Chinese multinational automotive components manufacturing company headquartered in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang province, is donating 1.1 million face masks and 50,000 protective masks to 12 U.S. states, with the first batch of thousands of boxes shipped on Monday.
A label on each box reads, "Surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off." The 12 states are Illinois, Michigan, Iowa, Wisconsin, Indiana, Missouri, Tennessee, Delaware, Mississippi, Colorado, South Dakota and Louisiana.
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