Global coronavirus cases have surpassed 200,000 Wednesday morning and more than 8,200 have lost their lives since a novel virus appeared in the Hubei province of China late last year.
According to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University, more than 82,000 people have recovered from the virus.
As of 9 a.m. Wednesday, China tops the list with 81,102 cases, Italy has the second-highest number of cases with 31,506 and Iran comes next with 17,361.
All 50 states in the U.S. are now linked to the virus, with nearly 6,500 confirmed cases around the nation. West Virginia was the last state to report a coronavirus case Tuesday afternoon.
At least 100 people have died in the U.S., linked to the virus’s outbreak. Thirty of those individuals are linked to the Life Care Center in Kirkland, Wash., one of the first hotspots of community spread in the nation.
As test production ramps up around the nation, those numbers are expected to rise.
Cheddar News breaks down how China's population declined for the first time in 10 years.
Walgreens is no longer limiting the online sales of children's fever medicines after respiratory infections earlier send demand soaring.
Thousands in Spain lined up outside of their churches to have their pets blessed.
India is expected to become the world's most populous nation, according to the UN.
UFO sightings have jumped in the past two years, and half of them remain unexplained.
The deadline to sign up for the Affordable Care Act ends on Sunday.
Sweden has discovered what is believed to be Europe's biggest deposit of rare earth metals.
Woman checks out at a grocery store. Credit: Luis Alvarez via Getty Images
Vaccination rates have dropped again among U.S. kindergarteners.
The Pentagon has now received 510 reports of unidentified flying objects. Many of those reports, 366, were added to the total in just the last two years. The other 144 sightings were reported over a 17-year period.
