Manila [Philippines], July 23 (ANI/Xinhua): The Philippines reported 3,604 new COVID-19 infections on Saturday, the highest since Feb. 12, bringing the number of confirmed cases in the country to 3,748,979.
Beijing [China], July 23 (ANI): Daily caseload has begun to go up in recent days in China. The country reported 128 locally-transmitted COVID-19 infections in the past 24 hours, including 42 in Gansu and 35 in Guangxi, media reports said citing the National Health Commission.
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 23 (ANI): Pakistan reported 693 new COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, bringing the tally to 1,549,766, the country's ministry of health said on Saturday.
New Delhi [India], July 23 (ANI): India reported 21,411 new COVID cases in the last 24 hours with a daily case positivity rate of 4.46 per cent, according to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Saturday.
Wellington [New Zealand], July 23 (ANI/Xinhua): New Zealand reported 7,746 new community cases of COVID-19 on Saturday, the Ministry of Health said in a statement.
New Delhi [India], July 23 (ANI): Chief of the banned Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), Yasin Malik, who is serving life term for cases including funding terrorism, has begun a hunger strike inside Tihar's jail, prison officials said on Saturday.
Washington [US], July 23 (ANI): US has reported the first cases of monkeypox as two cases of the rare viral disease have been identified in children, media reports said citing the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday.
New Delhi [India], July 23 (ANI): As many as 800 fresh COVID-19 cases have been reported in Assam in the last 24 hours, the state health department informed on Friday evening.
Manila [Philippines], July 22 (ANI/Xinhua): The Philippines reported 3,389 new COVID-19 infections on Friday, bringing the number of confirmed cases in the Southeast Asian country to 3,745,375.
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], July 22 (ANI): Two patients have tested positive for Omicron sub-variant BA.5 in Maharashtra, informed the state health department.
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 22 (ANI): Despite rising cases of Covid in Pakistan, the South Asian country may not be able to produce its own Covid vaccines due to a lack of technical capacity and unavailability of biotechnology plant to manufacture the latest type of vaccines.