Live updates: Global COVID-19 cases top 90 million

CGTN

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Confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide have topped 90 million, with nearly two million fatalities and more than 50 million recoveries, according to the latest data from Johns Hopkins University (JHU).

Here is the latest:

TheChinese mainland recorded 55 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, including 42 locally transmitted cases. Experts from the World Health Organization tasked with investigating the origins of the novel coronavirus will

arrive in China

on Thursday.

Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa

tested positive for COVID-19, said the Portuguese Presidency on Monday night.

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga told a meeting of ruling party executives on Tuesday that he would declare a state of emergency for the three western prefectures of Osaka, Kyoto and Hyogo.

The** United States** lost more than

22,000 lives to COVID-19 last week

, setting a record for the second week in a row. On average, COVID-19 killed 3,239 people per day in the U.S. last week, more than the number of deaths in the September 11 attacks in 2001.