Berlin, July 3 -- The death toll of the country due the novel coronavirus surged to 9003 on Friday, the Robert Koch Institute said.

The Institute further said that the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country also rose to 195,674 with 446 new cases reported in the last 24 hours.They further said that around 181,000 people have recovered since the outbreak.A day earlier, the country confirmed 503 new cases and nine fatalities.The World Health Organisation declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic on March 11.So far more than 10.8 million people have been infected with the coronavirus worldwide, with over 520,000 fatalities, Johns Hopkins University said.

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