Global number of COVID-19 cases surpasses 330,000: WHO

The number of COVID-19 cases has hit 332,930, with 14,510 deaths, according to the latest report issued by the World Health Organization (WHO).

"The pandemic is accelerating," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press briefing from the organization's Geneva headquarters. 

So far, 189 countries and regions have been affected by the coronavirus.

Here's the latest coronavirus development in the past 12 hours.

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has ordered a three-week lockdown, urged people to "stay at home," with few exceptions. Death toll in the county hit 303.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's initial test for coronavirus came back negative, and she will undergo further tests.

France's coronavirus death toll increased by 186 in a day, raising total to 860.

Italy reported 4,789 more cases, bringing the total to 63,927, while the death toll rose by 601 to 6,077. In addition, Italy's "patient one," a 38-year-old male, was discharged on Monday. He had attended at least three dinners, played soccer and ran with a team while contagious and without heavy symptoms. He was tested positive for the virus on February 20.

EU institutions in Brussels reported their first death from COVID-19 – a male employee of the European Parliament.

2020 Tokyo Olympics will be postponed by one year because of the coronavirus, International Olympic Committee member Dick Pound said. But official announcement is yet to be made. Previously, Norway said it would pull out of the Games if the event was not postponed.

The U.S. military said it will set up army hospitals in New York and Seattle within 72 hours, with each housing 248 beds and 11 ventilators.

Myanmar reported first confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus – two Myanmar nationals who recently returned from the U.S. and the UK.

Belize reported it's first case of COVID-19 – a woman, 38, from San Pedro Town, who returned from the U.S.