HIGHLIGHTS

• No new countries reported cases of COVID–19 in the past 24 hours. 
• WHO has developed a database to collect the latest scientific findings and knowledge on Coronavirus disease. For more information, please see here.
• The two–day global research and innovation forumregarding COVID–19was convened in line with the WHO R&D Blueprintthis week. Leading health experts from around the world met at WHO to assess the current level of knowledge about the new COVID–19 disease, identify gaps and work together to accelerate and fund priority research needed to help stop this outbreak and prepare for any future outbreaks. For more details, please see here.
• Overnight 14’840 cases, including 13’332 clinically diagnosed cases were reportedfrom Hubei. This is the first time China has reported clinically diagnosed cases in addition to laboratory–confirmed cases. For consistency, we report here only the number of laboratory–confirmed cases. WHO has formally requested additional information on the clinically diagnosed cases, in particular when these have occurred in the course of the outbreak and whether suspect cases were reclassified as clinically diagnosed cases.