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There are now more new cases of the coronavirus reported each day outside China than inside the hardest-hit country, the World Health Organization has said.

"Yesterday, the number of new cases reported outside China exceeded the number of new cases in China for the first time," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told diplomats in Geneva on Tuesday.

It comes as the number of deaths reported outside of China tops 50, including 2 in France, 12 in Italy and 19 in Iran, and countries such as Greece, Brazil, Pakistan, North Macedonia, Georgia and Finland record their first cases.