Palestinian workers disinfect a street in Gaza City, on Sept. 1, 2020. (Photo by Rizek Abdeljawad/Xinhua)
- Senior Palestinian official transferred to Israeli hospital due to COVID-19
- Brunei reports no new COVID-19 cases
- Russia reports 15,099 COVID-19 cases in single day
- Hong Kong reports 4 new COVID-19 cases, 5,241 in total
BEIJING, Oct. 18 (Xinhua) -- The following are the updates on the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
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RAMALLAH -- A senior Palestinian official has been moved to an Israeli hospital in Jerusalem after his health deteriorated because of his infection with the novel coronavirus, Palestinian and Israeli sources said on Sunday.
Saeb Erekat, secretary of the Palestine Liberation Organization, who received treatment at his house in Jericho, has suffered from deterioration in his health condition, Jihad Abu al-Assal, Palestinian governor of the Jordan Valley area, told Xinhua.
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HANOI -- Vietnam reported eight new cases of COVID-19 infection on Sunday, raising its total confirmed cases to 1,134 with 35 deaths from the disease so far, according to its Ministry of Health.
The eight new cases, who are Vietnamese and Australian citizens, have recently entered the country from abroad and were quarantined upon arrival, said the ministry, noting that one of them is a 7-month-old boy.
Photo taken on Sept. 5, 2020 shows students at the school opening ceremony in a secondary school in the Vietnamese capital city of Hanoi. (VNA/Handout via Xinhua)
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN -- Brunei reported no new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday with the national tally of cases standing at 147.
According to Brunei's Ministry of Health, no more recoveries were recorded, maintaining the total number of recovered cases at 143. There is still one active case being treated at the National Isolation Center, who was recorded on Oct. 14.
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KABUL -- Afghanistan on Sunday recorded 59 new confirmed COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, bringing its total tally to 40,200 with 1,492 deaths, the country's Ministry of Public Health said.
In the past 24 hours, health authorities conducted 476 tests, 59 of them detected to be positive for COVID-19 in nine provinces of Afghanistan's 34 provinces, the ministry said in a statement.
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MOSCOW -- Russia registered 15,099 COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, slightly down from the all-time high of 15,150 reported Friday, the country's COVID-19 response center said Sunday.
Russia's cumulative number of coronavirus cases has grown to 1,399,334, including 24,187 deaths and 1,070,576 recoveries, the center said in a statement.
Medical workers wearing protective gear transfer a person, suspected of contracting the coronavirus, into a hospital in Kommunarka, outside Moscow, Russia, Sept. 25, 2020. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr/Xinhua)
JAKARTA -- The COVID-19 cases in Indonesia rose by 4,105 within one day to 361,867, with the death toll adding by 80 to 12,511, the health ministry said on Sunday.
According to the ministry, 3,732 more people were discharged from hospitals, bringing the total number of recovered patients to 285,324.
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BANGKOK -- Thailand on Sunday reported three more local COVID-19 cases, all are family members of two Myanmar nationals in Thai soil, who previously tested positive for COVID-19 this past week, said the Center for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) on Sunday.
"On Sept. 11, we discovered the first local COVID-19 case in Thailand in 100 days of free transmission," said the CCSA in Bangkok, "and in the past week, we discovered two COVID-19 cases of Myanmar nationals, and today (Sunday) we have confirmed another three, also Myanmar nationals."
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DHAKA -- Bangladesh reported 1,274 new COVID-19 cases and 14 new deaths on Sunday, making the tally at 388,569 and death toll at 5,660, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said.
The official data showed that 11,866 samples were tested in the last 24 hours across Bangladesh.
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MANILA -- The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the Philippines surged to 356,618 after the Philippines' Department of Health (DOH) reported 2,379 new cases on Sunday.
The DOH said that the number of recoveries also surged to 310,158 after 14,941 more patients recovered. Meanwhile, 50 more patients died from the viral disease, bringing the death toll to 6,652.
An elderly woman wearing a face mask is seen at a market in Manila, the Philippines, Oct. 15, 2020. (Xinhua/Rouelle Umali)
ULAN BATOR -- Mongolia reported four new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the total tally of infections to 324, the country's health ministry said Sunday.
The newly-confirmed cases are returnees from abroad who were under quarantine in the country's capital Ulan Bator, the ministry said in a statement.
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HONG KONG -- Hong Kong's Center for Health Protection (CHP) reported four additional confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, taking Hong Kong's total tally to 5,241.
Two of the newly-reported cases were imported and the remaining two were epidemiologically linked with local cases, the CHP said. ■
