Chinanews.com, March 16th. According to the latest daily epidemic report released by WHO, as of 10:00 on the 15th of Central European Time (17:00 on the 15th of Beijing time), more than 70,000 confirmed cases of new crown pneumonia outside China .

The report said that the number of newly diagnosed cases of new coronary pneumonia outside China increased by 10,955 to 72,469 from the previous day; the number of deaths of new coronary pneumonia outside China increased by 333 from the previous day, to 2,531.

The report shows that worldwide, the number of confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia increased by 10,982 cases to 153,517 cases compared with the previous day; the number of death cases increased by 343 cases to 5,735 cases compared with the previous day.