Beijing [China], August 12 (ANI): China has punished nearly 20 more officials in its Guangdong Province's Guangzhou for negligence in curbing the spread of coronavirus soon after it punished nearly 47 officials nationwide for the same reason.
Moscow [Russia], August 12 (ANI/Sputnik): Russia registered 21,932 COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, up from 21,571 the day before, taking the overall tally to 6,534,791, the federal response center said on Thursday.
Islamabad [Pakistan], August 12 (ANI): Pakistan has reported more than 100 COVID-19 fatalities after a gap of nearly three months amid the fourth wave of the infection.
Mexico City [Mexico], August 12 (ANI/Sputnik): The Mexican Secretariat of Health has published new statistics on COVID-19, according to which the number of confirmed cases has exceeded 3 million.
Beijing [China], August 12 (ANI/Xinhua): The Chinese mainland on Wednesday reported 61 new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, including 38 in Jiangsu Province, 10 in Hubei, seven in Hunan, and three each in Henan and Yunnan, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Thursda
New Delhi [India], August 12 (ANI): India reported 41,195 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the active caseload to 3,87,987, said the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Thursday.
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], August 12 (ANI): West Bengal Law Minister Moloy Ghatak has termed cases against Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Abhishek Banerjee, and other MPs, and the 14TMC leaders at Tripura's Khowai as 'false' and 'fabricated'.
Kalaburagi (Karnataka) [India], August 12 (ANI): Dengue cases in Kalaburagi have increased since July due to heavy rainfall in the area, informed District Health Officer.
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], August 12 (ANI): Maharashtra Health Department on Wednesday informed that cases of Delta Plus variant of COVID-19 has reached 65 in the state.
New Delhi [India], August 11 (ANI): Delhi for the fourth time in August reported zero deaths on Wednesday due to the COVID-19 pandemic, while the daily positivity rate dipped to 0.06 per cent.
Islamabad [Pakistan], August 11 (ANI): A court in Islamabad has summoned the interior secretary in a case pertaining to 41 Pakistani prisoners who were awarded sentences in drug smuggling cases in Sri Lanka.
Washington [US], August 11 (ANI): A year after the Emmy Awards were held virtually during the COVID-19 pandemic, the ceremony will now be held in person, albeit, not in the Microsoft Theater, where it usually takes place.