BEIJING, April 25 (Xinhua) -- The following are the updates on the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
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BANGKOK -- Thailand on Saturday saw a sudden spurt in COVID-19 patients with 53 new cases reported.
The number was the highest since April 9 when there were 54 new cases, said Dr. Taweesin Visanuyothin, spokesman of the government's Center for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA).
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WUHAN -- A plane carrying medical supplies took off at 8:34 p.m. Friday and left Wuhan, a central Chinese city once hardest hit by COVID-19, for New York.
The flight was operated by China Southern Airlines and loaded with nearly 20 tonnes of medical supplies on board. It was the airlines' first passenger flight that was used for delivering cargos from the province.
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WASHINGTON -- The U.S. federal government confiscated a shipment of 1 million N95 masks that had been ordered for firefighters in Miami-Dade County in southeastern U.S. state of Florida, local media reported recently, citing a top county official.
"We are going to meet the plane and actually take them. That's like gold, you know. But we got the word from the company that they had been taken from the federal government," Frank Rollason, county director of emergency management, was quoted as saying on Wednesday by the WLRN Public Radio and Television.
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BEIJING -- China's steel sector was badly hurt by the novel coronavirus outbreak, with production slowing and prices slumping in the first quarter of this year, but analysts expect recovery in Q2 as demand rebounds.
Production of rolled steel totaled 267 million tonnes in Q1, down 1.6 percent year on year, as compared with an increase of 10.8 percent during the same period last year, data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) showed.
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NEW DELHI -- India's federal health ministry on Saturday morning reported 52 new deaths and 1,054 fresh positive cases since last evening, taking the number of deaths to 775 and total cases to 24,506.
"As on 8:00 a.m. (local time), today 775 deaths related to novel coronavirus have been recorded in the country," said an information released by the ministry.
According to ministry officials, 5,063 people have been discharged from hospitals after showing improvement, and the number of active cases in the country stood at 18,668. Enditem
