新冠病毒在全球160多个国家和地区肆虐，截至周二已造成全球7000多人死亡。请看本报昨日的报道：

Coronavirus COVID-19 is affecting more than 160 countries and regions around the world, with confirmed cases surpassing 100,000 outside China, and over 7,000 people globally having succumbed to the virus as of Tuesday, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

The European Union announced proposals Monday to ban incoming travel for foreigners to the bloc for 30 days to battle the spread of COVID-19.

报道中的succumb to本意是“屈服于”，在这里指“感染疾病死亡”。例如：

A few years later, she succumbed to cancer.

几年后她死于癌症。