Latest on coronavirus around the world

Europe:

Slovakia reported its first case, a 52-year-old man, whose son had returned from Venice a couple of weeks ago. But his son is not showing any signs of illness for now.

Serbia and Vatican also reported first cases earlier in the day.

Netherlands said an 86-year-old patient with COVID-19 died on Friday, the first death caused by the virus in the country. There're a total of 128 cases now.

France Friday said the number of cases rose by 154 to 577, with two more death. Now the death toll stands at nine in the country.

UK said there're 163 confirmed cases. Sky news also said it understands that a second death occurred on Friday. 

Greece Friday reported 14 new cases, taking total in the country to 45.

Germany now has 534 cases, over half of which are in the western region of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany's most populous state.

Belgium Friday doubled its number in the past 24 hours, with the number rose to 109 from 59.

Russia detected six new cases, the total is now at eight.

Asia:

Singapore recorded biggest daily jump of 13 cases on Friday, taking the city-state's total infections to 130. Among all, 82 have fully recovered.

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Latin America:

Peru recorded first confirmed case of coronavirus, the 25-year-old man had traveled to Spain, France and the Czech Republic.

Guatemala declared "state of public calamity" in respond to the coronavirus outbreak in the globe, but there's no single case detected in the country so far.