New Delhi [India], December 19 (ANI): India has logged 7,081 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the active caseload of the country to 83,913, the lowest in nearly 1.5 years, informed the Union Health Ministry on Sunday.
Washington [US], December 19 (ANI/Sputnik): CNN is sending all of its nonessential employees to work from home amid a spike in coronavirus cases, network President Jeff Zucker said in a memo.
Havana [Cuba], December 19 (ANI/Xinhua): Cuba reported its first death from COVID-19 this week and registered 77 new cases, bringing the death toll to 8,314 and the number of infections to 964,035, the Ministry of Public Health said on Saturday.
Ottawa [Canada], December 19 (ANI/Xinhua): COVID-19 cases are continuing to soar across Canada fueled by the Omicron variant, with confirmation of 7,566 new cases as of Saturday afternoon.
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], December 18 (ANI): Kerala reported four new cases of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, taking the overall cases of the new variant to eleven in the state on Saturday, Health Minister Veena George said.
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 18 (ANI): Maharashtra on Saturday reported eight new cases of Omicron variant of COVID-19, taking the cumulative tally of Omicron cases in the state to 48.
New Delhi [India], December 18 (ANI): With seven countries in South-East Asia Region confirming cases of the new COVID-19 variant Omicron, the World Health Organization (WHO) on Saturday emphasized on urgent scale-up of public health and social measures to curtail its further spread.
Manila [Philippines], December 18 (ANI/Xinhua): The Philippines' Department of Health (DOH) reported 291 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday, bringing the total tally to 2,837,555.
Moscow [Russia], December 18 (ANI/Sputnik): Russia registered 27,434 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, which brings the cumulative total to 10,186,823, the federal response center said Saturday.
Islamabad [Pakistan], December 18 (ANI): Witnessing a surge in new COVID-19 cases, Pakistan reported 357 fresh coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, according to National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on Saturday.
New Delhi [India], December 18 (ANI): India reported 7,145 fresh COVID-19 cases and 289 deaths in the last 24 hours, informed the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Saturday.
Beijing [China], December 18 (ANI): At least 89 new cases of COVID-19 were reported from the Chinese mainland on Friday, local media reported on Saturday.