The global death toll from the coronavirus outbreak exceeded 3,000 on Monday as South Korea reported almost 500 new cases of the disease and a second person died in the US.

Covid-19 has now infected more than 88,000 people and spread to more than 60 countries after first emerging in China late last year. Indonesia, which has so far claimed to be virus-free, registered its first two cases on Monday.

More than two months on, most cases and deaths are still confined to China, whose health commission reported 202 new infections on Monday – the lowest daily rise since late January – and 42 new deaths. Hubei province, where the outbreak has been concentrated, recorded 196 of the 202 new cases and all of the new deaths.

The death toll in China rose to 2,912, but it is also creeping up in other countries. Iran raised its official death toll to 66 – the highest outside China – amid 1,501 confirmed cases. Australia reported its first Covid-19 death over the weekend.

Infections nearly doubled over the weekend in Italy – Europe’s hardest-hit country with nearly 1,700 cases. All members of the local government of Lombardy region, the area worst hit by the outbreak in northern Italy, will undergo tests after a councillor tested positive for the illness, a statement said on Monday.

Elsewhere in Europe, Portugal, Iceland and Andorra all confirmed their first cases, while in Germany the number of confirmed cases rose to 150 and in France the Louvre museum in Paris shut its doors to art lovers and tourists for a second day.

Cases in the US rose to at least 76 with two deaths, both in Washington state. The second victim was a man in his 70s who died on Saturday in a nursing home where several other people are infected, local health authorities said.