Canberra [Australia], January 25 (ANI): Australia has approved the coronavirus vaccine by Pfizer and BioNTech, announced Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Monday.
Tunis [Tunisia], January 25 (ANI/Sputnik): Tunisian Foreign Minister Othman Jerandi announced that he has contracted the coronavirus and has severe symptoms.
Amsterdam [Netherlands], January 25 (ANI/Sputnik): The number of people detained during the Sunday protests against the coronavirus lockdown measures in Amsterdam has gone up to 190, Dutch police said.
Paris [France], January 25 (ANI/Xinhua): France on Sunday registered 18,436 COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, pushing the total count to 3,053,617.
Mexico City [Mexico], January 25 (ANI): Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said he has contracted coronavirus and is exhibiting mild symptoms
Ankara [Turkey], January 25 (ANI/Xinhua): Turkey on Sunday reported 5,277 new COVID-19 cases, including 684 symptomatic patients, as the total number of positive cases in the country reached 2,429,605, according to its health ministry.
Baghdad [Iraq], January 25 (ANI/Xinhua): The Iraqi Health Ministry reported on Sunday 893 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total nationwide number to 613,763.
Tel Aviv [Israel], January 24 (ANI/Xinhua): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israel is going to be "shut down hermetically" for about a week, citing fears for the arrival of new coronavirus variants.
Washington [US], January 24 (ANI/Sputnik): The United States has registered nearly 170,000 new coronavirus cases and nearly 3,300 coronavirus-related fatalities within the past 24 hours, according to Johns Hopkins University.
Jakarta [Indonesia], January 24 (ANI/Xinhua): The COVID-19 cases in Indonesia rose by 11,788 within one day to 989,262, with the death toll adding by 171 to 27,835, the Health Ministry said on Sunday.
Paris [France], January 24 (ANI/Xinhua): France on Saturday reported 23,924 new cases of COVID-19 infection in a 24-hour span, raising the country's cumulative number of confirmed cases to 3,035,181, official data showed.