The hospital director in hard-hit Wuhan, China, succumbed to the coronavirus, the city’s health bureau said Tuesday. Liu Zhiming is one of six other health workers in the country who have died from the disease. Chinese officials said it would designate them as state martyrs.

About 20 suspected extremists killed 24 people, including the pastor, at a Protestant church in Burkina Faso on Sunday. The attackers injured 18 and kidnapped three others in the town of Pansi in Yagha province, near the border with conflict-hit Niger. They burned down the church and looted oil and rice from the community before leaving on their motorbikes.

At least 14 children died in an attack on the village of Ntumbo, Cameroon, on Friday. A major opposition party and a key member of the separatist movement blamed state defense forces for the violence, which killed a total of 22 people.

Two charter flights with more than 300 Americans from a quarantined Japanese cruise ship landed at military bases in California and Texas on Monday. Fourteen of the passengers have already tested positive for the coronavirus. The tourists from the Diamond Princess cruise ship will remain under quarantine at the bases for 14 days.

The United States and the Taliban are expected to announce a roadmap for peace talks Friday after agreeing to a seven-day reduction in violence. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Mark Esper met Friday in Munich with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani about the next steps to end the country’s 18-year war and withdraw thousands of American troops.

More than 1,700 Chinese medical workers have caught the new coronavirus while scrambling to contain the outbreak. Six of the workers have died from the viral pneumonia, Zeng Yixin, vice director of China’s National Health Commission, said on Friday. The commission has issued new guidelines for medical institutions to help prevent and control infection, he said. Nearly 65,000 people have been infected globally, and the death toll stands at more than 1,300.

A new diagnostic tool uncovered a sharp rise in the daily number of coronavirus cases in China, health officials said on Thursday. Officials in the hardest-hit province, Hubei, reported 242 people died on Wednesday, raising the total number of deaths to 1,367 people. Globally, the number of cases has surpassed 60,000.

What changed in the methodology? Health workers in Hubei province at first could only identify the virus by testing patients’ RNA, but results took days to process. New CT scans that reveal lung infections allow them to make a diagnosis on the spot.