Beijing [China], January 2 (ANI): China welcomed the year 2022 with the worst tally of COVID-19 cases for any seven-day period since subduing the country's first epidemic nearly two years ago.
Beijing [China], January 2 (ANI): China is still learning the lessons from the collapse of the Soviet Union that happened in December 1991 to prevent the disintegration of the communist rule country under Xi Jinping.
Hanoi [Vietnam], January 2 (ANI/Xinhua): Vietnam reported 16,948 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, including 16,914 locally transmitted and 34 imported, according to its ministry of health.
Islamabad [Pakistan], January 2 (ANI): Pakistan on Saturday confirmed 594 new COVID-19 cases amid the spread of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC) said on Sunday, according to Xinhua News.
Xi'an [China], January 2 (ANI): The authorities of Xi'an city of China have pledged to ensure the supply of daily necessities as the lockdown in the city entered its tenth day.
Wellington [New Zealand], January 2 (ANI/Xinhua): New Zealand detected two new Omicron cases at the border in two days, taking the country's total cases of the COVID-19 variant to 90, said the Ministry of Health in a statement on Sunday.
Addis Ababa [Ethiopia], January 2 (ANI/Xinhua): Ethiopia has registered 3,998 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, taking the nationwide tally to 424,340 as of Saturday evening, the country's health ministry said.
Hong Kong, January 2 (ANI): Lithuania needs the support of the West and other foreign powers to counter Chinese aggression as it seems to be struggling almost alone against one of the world's economic and political superpowers, according to a report.
Seoul [South Korea], January 2 (ANI/Xinhua): South Korea reported 3,833 more cases of COVID-19 as of midnight Saturday compared to 24 hours ago, raising the total number of infections to 639,083.
Ankara [Turkey], January 2 (ANI/Xinhua): Turkey on Saturday reported 36,731 new COVID-19 cases, raising its tally of infections to 9,519,281, according to the country's health ministry.
Chicago [US], January 2 (ANI/Xinhua): A winter storm system hit Chicago on Saturday, with snow accumulations expected to reach four to seven inches and wind gusts up to 30 miles per hour, according to the National Weather Service.
Sanaa [Yemen], January 2 (ANI/Xinhua): Thirty-seven Houthi militants were killed on Saturday in a battle with the Yemeni army in Yemen's central province of Marib, government military source told Xinhua.