Seoul officials asked for the inquiry, accusing the church’s leaders of contributing to South Korea’s rising death toll, now at 18, by failing to provide an accurate list of church members and by interfering with the government’s efforts to fight the outbreak. The church said it was the victim of a witch hunt.

The count: The global total of coronavirus cases has reached more than 87,000 in at least 60 countries. More than 7,000 confirmed cases are outside mainland China, where the outbreak began. Here are the latest updates and maps of the spread.

Around the world: Australia, which has 25 confirmed cases, recorded its first death from the virus — a man who had been a passenger on the Diamond Princess ship. Europe’s infections grew as Italy, the outbreak’s center there, confirmed a total of 1,128 cases and 29 deaths. Iran’s cases rose to 987.

Officials in the U.S. are looking into cases in Washington State, where the country’s first death from the virus was recorded over the weekend, that suggest that the coronavirus may have been spreading in the state for close to six weeks.

Chinese leadership: President Xi Jinping intends to ban the trade in wildlife that scientists believe may have let the coronavirus jump from animals into the human population, according to newly published excerpts from two recent speeches.