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BAKU – Some 4,192 people in Azerbaijan have been diagnosed with coronavirus over the past 24 hours, the Azerbaijani coronavirus response headquarters said on Aug. 18.

The total number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 has thus reached 377,304, it said.

On Tuesday, 3,322 new cases were recorded.

Twenty people have died of coronavirus over the past 24 hours. The total death toll from coronavirus has reached 5,208 in Azerbaijan.