Worldwide, about 3,100 people have succumbed to the disease, even when there was a clear change in the crisis, with nine times more cases registered outside China than inside, according to the UN health agency.
Andorra, the Czech Republic, Indonesia, Jordan, Latvia, Portugal, Tunisia and Saudi Arabia were some of the countries that confirmed their first cases, along with Senegal, which became the second country in sub-Saharan Africa to do so.
It is feared that the region ravaged by the conflict will be particularly vulnerable due to its poor health infrastructure and cities crowded with inadequate sanitation.
All deaths in the United States occurred in the state of Washington, where officials warned residents that the battle against the disease was moving from containment to mitigation.
"The risk of everyone getting infected will increase," said Jeff Duchin, a health official in King County, where five of the deaths occurred. The district is home to Seattle, a city with a population of more than 700,000 people.
Earlier in the day, the governor of New York warned that it was "inevitable" that the virus would spread in the global financial center after its first confirmed case was detected in a health worker who had visited Iran.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump met with leading pharmaceutical companies in the White House to discuss efforts to develop a coronavirus vaccine.
Despite its world class hospitals and medical professionals, the US UU. They are also considered vulnerable to an epidemic due to the marked disparities in their health care system, which includes almost 28 million people without coverage.
'Window of opportunity'
With the fear of a rising pandemic after the virus emerged in China at the end of last year, the World Health Organization urged countries to stock up on critical care fans to treat patients with severe symptoms.
The head of WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said there was a "window of opportunity" to contain the outbreak, and noted that "more than 130 countries have not yet detected any cases."
Worldwide, the virus has infected almost 90,000 people in more than 60 countries.