Live COVID-19 updates: UN postpones NPT Review Conference, Togo reports 1st death case

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BEIJING, March 28 (Xinhua) -- The world is now in a battle against COVID-19, a disease caused by a previously unknown coronavirus that has spread to over 200 countries and regions.

The following are the updates on the contagious illness.

LOME -- Togo, which has registered 25 COVID-19 cases, reported its first case of death caused by the contagious disease on Friday night.

The patient returned from Belgium on March 17 and had respiratory symptoms, said a statement published on the government's official website.

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UNITED NATIONS -- The 2020 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference will be postponed, possibly by a year, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, said the United Nations on Friday.

"In light of the situation related to the COVID-19 pandemic, states parties have decided to postpone the 2020 Review Conference ... to a later date, as soon as the circumstances permit, but no later than April 2021," said the press office of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

Information on the new dates of the conference will be posted in due course, said the press office in a note to correspondents.

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YANGON -- Three more cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Myanmar on Saturday, bringing the total infections of the viral pandemic in the country to eight, according to a statement issued by the Ministry of Health and Sports.

The newly confirmed patients include a 29-year-old male in Yangon who was on the same trip to England with a patient who recently tested positive as the country's third case.

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PARIS -- The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in France has risen by 13 percent within a day to reach a total of 32,964 as of Friday, the 11th day of national lockdown imposed to contain the outbreak, Health General Director Jerome Salomon said.

A total of 1,995 people died, up 299 from Thursday, Salomon added in an update.

Further 1,828 people diagnosed with the COIVD-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, had received treatment in hospitals in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of hospitalized patients to 15,732. That included 3,787 serious cases, a daily jump of 472.

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WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday warned Americans to guard against fraudulent coronavirus tests, vaccines, treatments.

Many Americans might be tempted to buy or use questionable products that claim to help diagnose, treat, cure, and even prevent COVID-19, said a statement of the FDA.

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ISTANBUL -- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that all international flights would be cancelled as part of the fight against COVID-19.

Announcing new measures against the spread of the outbreak during a televised live broadcast, Erdogan also noted that inter-city travel across the country would be subject to the permission of governors in each province.

"A flexible working system will be implemented with minimum personnel both in private and public sectors," Erdogan said.

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WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday he ordered General Motors (GM) to produce ventilators under the Defense Production Act, a wartime law he recently invoked to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic.

"Our negotiations with GM regarding its ability to supply ventilators have been productive, but our fight against the virus is too urgent to allow the give-and-take of the contracting process to continue to run its normal course," Trump said in a statement. Enditem

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