CORONAVIRUS LATEST: — U.S. death toll approaches 100,000. — Coronavirus cases top 115,000 in Africa. — U.K. minister resigns over senior aide's lockdown controversy. — U.K. authorizes experimental drug remdesivir for COVID-19 patients.
More than 46,000 of those patients have recovered from the disease so far, while at least 3,471 others have died.
"Of course, these numbers don't paint the full picture," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during Monday's press briefing."Testing capacity in Africa is still being ramped up and there is a likelihood that some cases may be missed. But even so, Africa appears to have so far been spared the scale of outbreaks we have seen in other regions.
An ampule of the antiviral drug remdesivir is pictured during a news conference at the University Hospital Eppendorf in Hamburg, Germany, on April 8, 2020. The latest daily increase in COVID-19 fatalities shatters the country's previous record of 153 new deaths reported on Sunday. However, the overall tally is still considerably lower than many other countries hit hard by the pandemic.
Douglas Ross stepped down from his post as parliamentary under-secretary of state for Scotland on Tuesday,"There was much I still hoped to do in this role but events over the last few days mean I can no longer serve as a member of this government."
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