Chinanews.com, March 27th. The latest issue of the new crown pneumonia epidemic report released by the World Health Organization showed that the number of confirmed cases of new crown pneumonia in the world exceeded 460,000, and the number of confirmed patients continued to increase. Among them, the Americas and Europe have the most new cases within 24 hours.

According to reports, WHO data show that as of 17:00 Beijing time on the 26th, a total of 46,684 cases of new coronal pneumonia were diagnosed worldwide, an increase of 49,219. There were 20834 deaths and 2401 new cases. Among them, the number of confirmed cases in Europe increased by 29,771 compared with the previous day, and the number of new cases in the Americas increased by 14,878, making it the two regions with the largest increase in cases worldwide.

In the past 24 hours, three countries and regions reported their first confirmed cases.