Tehran [Iran], December 16 (ANI/Xinhua): Iran's Health Ministry reported 7,603 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, raising the total nationwide infections to 1,131,077.
Kabul [Afghanistan], December 16 (ANI/Xinhua): Afghanistan on Wednesday reported 230 newly confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing its total tally to 49,970.
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], December 16 (ANI): The Health and Family Welfare Department of Uttar Pradesh has cancelled all leaves of officers and employees of the Directorate General, in view of proposed Covid-19 vaccination in the months of December 2020 and January 2021.
Tbilisi [Georgia], December 16 (ANI/Xinhua): Georgia reported 3,487 new Covid-19 cases, bringing its national total to 198,387, the government's official coronavirus information service StopCoV.ge reported on Wednesday.
New Delhi [India], December 16 (ANI): The active Covid-19 caseload of the country stands at 3,32,002, which is 3.34 per cent of the total coronavirus cases in India, said the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) said on Wednesday.
Zagreb [Croatia], December 16 (ANI/Xinhua): Croatia recorded 2,360 new Covid-19 cases, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 179,718, said the Croatian Institute of Public Health on Tuesday.
Bishkek [Kyrgyzstan], December 16 (ANI/Xinhua): The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Kyrgyzstan reached 78,151 on Wednesday as 241 new cases were registered across the country in the past 24 hours, said Kyrgyz's Republican Headquarters for Combating COVID-19.
Washington [US], December 16 (ANI): American actor-singer Jennifer Lopez recently opened up about the coronavirus quarantine and coming face-to-face with all of the challenges presented by the year 2020.
Sydney [Australia], December 16 (ANI/Xinhua): Australian researchers called for people with serious mental illness to be given priority access to Covid-19 vaccines when they become available, according to a statement released Wednesday.
Sofia [Bulgaria], December 16 (ANI/Xinhua): Bulgaria has confirmed 2,743 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the country's total to 184,287, according to data published by the country's Unified Information Portal on Wednesday.
Moscow [Russia], December 16 (ANI/Sputnik): Russia has registered 26,509 COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, down from 26,689 the day before, bringing the total to 2,734,454, the federal response centre said on Wednesday.
New York [US], December 16 (ANI): Coronavirus vaccinations may not reach a quarter of the world's population until 2022, according to researchers who reported on Tuesday.