A child looks back at Kiev zoo in Kiev, Ukraine, May 23, 2020. (Photo by Sergey Starostenko/Xinhua)
- Ukraine's COVID-19 cases top 450,000
- Brunei reports no new COVID-19 cases for 16 straight days
- Afghanistan reports 58 new cases, 42,033 in total
- White House chief of staff tests positive
BEIJING, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- The following are the updates on the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
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KIEV -- A total of 450,934 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 8,312 deaths have been registered in Ukraine on Saturday, while 204,229 patients have recovered, according to the health ministry.
A record 10,746 people tested positive for COVID-19 in the country in the past 24 hours, while 8,685 patients recovered, the ministry added.
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BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN -- Brunei reported no new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday with the national tally of cases standing at 148.
It marked the 16th consecutive day without new cases since Oct. 22, when the country recorded an imported case from Kuala Lumpur.
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MANILA -- The Philippines' Department of Health (DOH) on Saturday reported 2,157 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 infection, bringing the total number in the country to 393,961.
The DOH said 252 more patients recovered, raising the total number of recoveries to 350,216. The death toll climbed to 7,485 after 24 more patients died from the viral disease, the DOH added.
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Afghan women work at a saffron processing factory in Herat city, western Afghanistan, Nov. 4, 2020. (Photo by Elaha Sahel/Xinhua)
KABUL -- Afghanistan on Saturday reported 58 newly confirmed COVID-19 cases after health authorities conducted 218 tests within a day, bringing the number of total cases to 42,033, the country's Ministry of Public Health confirmed.
The ministry has recorded 1,556 deaths since the outbreak of the pandemic in February, an increase of two within the past 24 hours.
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NEW DELHI -- India's COVID-19 tally reached 8,462,080 on Saturday as 50,356 new cases were registered across the country in the past 24 hours, said latest data released by the federal health ministry.
With 577 deaths since Friday morning, the total death toll in the country due to the pandemic reached 125,562, according to the ministry's data.
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WARSAW -- Two main daily newspapers in Poland have recently posted opinion pieces about the success of China's fight against COVID-19, attributing the effective response mainly to science-guided measures, including prompt lockdowns and massive tests.
Both noted the low numbers of infections and deaths in China, with Gazeta Wyborcza saying that China's mortality rate stays at a low level among the countries having statistics.
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Police stand guard near the White House in Washington, D.C., the United States, Nov. 5, 2020. (Xinhua/Liu Jie)
WASHINGTON -- White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows tested positive for COVID-19, U.S. media reported on Friday night.
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MEXICO CITY -- Mexico's Health Ministry reported 5,931 new confirmed cases of coronavirus infection on Friday with 551 additional fatalities as a second state planned to enter the highest alert level.
As of Friday, the country has recorded a total of 955,128 cases and 94,323 deaths, with the number of its confirmed cases ranking fourth in Latin America after Brazil, Argentina and Colombia. ■
