Melbourne [Australia], January 16 (ANI): Two positive Covid-19 cases were reported on a charter flight on Saturday carrying tennis players and officials to Melbourne ahead of the Australian Open.
Mexico City [Mexico], January 16 (ANI/Sputnik): Mexico has registered 21,366 new COVID-19 cases within the past 24 hours marking the largest daily increase since the start of the outbreak, the national Ministry of Health said.
Baltimore [US], January 16 (ANI): A grim milestone has been reached globally as the COVID-19 deaths have breached the 2 million deaths mark while the cases are nearing 94 million.
Aizawl (Mizoram) [India], January 16 (ANI): Mizoram reported four new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, said the Department of Information and Public Relations (DIPR), Mizoram.
Washington [US], January 16 (ANI): President-elect Joe Biden on Friday (local time) said that the coronavirus vaccine rollout in the US till now has been a "dismal failure".
Madrid [Spain], January 16 (ANI/Sputnik): Spain has confirmed 40,197 new cases of the coronavirus over the past 24 hours, recording the highest single-day increase in infections since the outbreak of the pandemic in March 2020, the Ministry of Health said on Friday.
Geneva [Switzerland], January 16 (ANI/Sputnik): The World Health Organisation (WHO) does not rule out the introduction of immunisation passports for international travel if the situation with Covid-19 changes, Michael Ryan, director of the WHO health emergencies program, said on Friday.
Maryland [US], January 16 (ANI): More than 2 million people have died globally due to coronavirus according to the latest tally by the Johns Hopkins University.
Tehran [Iran], January 15 (ANI/Xinhua): Iran's health ministry reported 6,485 daily COVID-19 cases on Friday, raising the total nationwide infections to 1,318,295.
Kuala Lumpur [Malaysia], January 15 (ANI/Xinhua): Malaysia reported 3,211 new COVID-19 infections, the health ministry said on Friday, bringing the national total to 151,066.
Jakarta [Indonesia], January 15 (ANI/Xinhua): Indonesia reported 12,818 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Friday, a record single-day rise since the coronavirus outbreak in the Asian country, bringing its total tally to 882,418.
Tokyo [Japan], January 15 (ANI/Sputnik): Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare on Friday held a meeting to discuss introducing harsher punishments for violators of coronavirus rules as the country sees a surge in COVID-19 cases and deaths, media reported.