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12.25am GMT

Hello and welcome to the Guardian’s live coverage of the coronavirus pandemic with me, Helen Sullivan. I’ll be taking you through the next few hours of important updates and breaking new as the number of cases worldwide moves towards 600,000.

Both the US and Italy now have more cases than China, with 101,657 and 86,498 respectively.

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