China’s National Health Commission reported on Wednesday that the death toll on the mainland had surpassed 2,700, with a total of 2,715 people killed from COVID-19. The virus peaked in China towards the end of January, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), but the number of confirmed cases has surpassed 78,000.
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