Seoul [South Korea], December 6 (ANI/Sputnik): A traditional New Year bell-ring ceremony will be cancelled in the South Korean capital of Seoul, as the country has faced yet another spike in COVID-19 cases, a municipal government official said on Sunday.
Manila [Philippines], December 6 (ANI/Xinhua): The number of COVID-19 infections in the Philippines has risen to 439,834 after the Department of Health (DOH) reported 1,768 new cases on Sunday.
Peshawar [Pakistan], December 6 (ANI): As many as seven coronavirus patients died in Peshawar's Khyber Teaching Hospital as the oxygen cylinders from Rawalpindi failed to reach the hospital on time.
New Delhi [India], December 6 (ANI): With India recording more recoveries than the new COVID-19 cases for the last nine days, the active coronavirus caseload dropped to 4.03 lakh (4,03,248) on Sunday, the lowest in 138 days, according to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
Washington [US], December 6 (ANI/Xinhua): The United States recorded over 214,000 new COVID-19 cases on Friday alone, pushing the seven-day average daily increase to an all-time high of nearly 180,000 cases.
Moscow [Russia], December 6 (ANI/Sputnik): Russia has registered a new single-day record for COVID-19 cases for the second consecutive day as 29,039 new positive tests were confirmed by the federal response center on Sunday, bringing the country's case total to 2,460,770.
Panaji (Goa) [India], December 6 (ANI): Goa Director General of Police (DGP) Mukesh Kumar Meena has said that police will have a major role in the distribution of Covid-19 vaccine, when it becomes available.
Paris [France], December 6 (ANI/Xinhua): France registered 12,923 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, taking its national count to 2,281,475, data from the country's health authorities showed.
Berlin [Germany], December 6 (ANI/Sputnik): Germany has registered 17,767 new coronavirus cases over the past 24 hours, taking the total count to 1,171,322, the Robert Koch Institute said on Sunday.
Washington [US], December 6 (ANI): A total of over 500,000 people could die from COVID-19 in the US by early spring despite the release of the coronavirus vaccine, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington in Seattle projects.
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], December 6 (ANI): Telangana reported 622 new COVID-19 cases, taking the total number of cases in the state to 2,73,341 on Saturday.
Seoul [South Korea], December 6 (ANI/Xinhua): South Korea reported 631 more cases of the COVID-19 as of midnight Saturday compared to 24 hours ago, raising the total number of infections to 37,546.