Wednesday, 18 March 2020 07:38 AM EDT ET
Confirmed cases of the new coronavirus topped 200,000 worldwide by Wednesday, according to a Johns Hopkins University tally.
Deaths exceed 8,000, while the number of people who have recovered is over 82,000, the tally shows.
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