NEW YORK, June 28 (Xinhua) -- Global COVID-19 deaths surpassed 500,000 on Sunday, reaching 500,108 as of 4:33 p.m.
CAIRO, June 28 (Xinhua) -- The death toll from the novel coronavirus in Iran hit 10,508 on Sunday after the registration of 144 more fatalities, while Saudi Arabia reported 3,989 new infections, raising the total number in the kingdom to 182,493. In Iran, the hardest hit country in the Middle East, the overall number of the COVID-19 cases has grown to 222,669 after 2,489 new infections were added, according to Sima Sadat Lari, spokeswoman for Iran's Ministry of Health and Medical Education.
WASHINGTON, June 28 (Xinhua) -- U.S.
PARIS, June 28 (Xinhua) -- France has recently announced that it does not have information to corroborate a possible link between the origin of the novel coronavirus and the Wuhan Institute of Virology. "As regards the origin of the virus, the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs has no information to date to corroborate a possible link between the origin of the coronavirus and the work of the Institute of Virology in Wuhan," said the ministry when addressing the Senate earlier this month.
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