Naypyidaw [Myanmar], November 26 (ANI/Xinhua): Myanmar reported 493 new COVID-19 cases with daily positivity rate of 2.10 per cent in the past 24 hours, according to the Ministry of Health on Friday.
Ankara [Turkey], November 26 (ANI): Chinese authorities have destroyed a dome in a park that an Uyghur living in Turkey had built in his former hometown in Xinjiang.
Jakarta [Indonesia], November 26 (ANI/Xinhua): Indonesia on Friday confirmed 453 new COVID-19 cases, raising its tally of infections to 4,255,268, according to the country's health ministry.
Singapore, November 26 (ANI/Xinhua): Singapore recorded 1,090 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Friday, bringing the total tally to 259,875, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said in a statement.
Tbilisi [Georgia], November 26 (ANI/Xinhua): Georgia on Friday reported 4,534 new COVID-19 cases, raising its total to 831,248, according to the country's National Center for Disease Control and Public Health (NCDC).
Manila [Philippines], November 26 (ANI/Xinhua): The Philippines has imposed travel restrictions on travelers from South Africa, Botswana, and their neighbouring countries "effective immediately" due to concerns over a new COVID-19 variant, a government official said on Friday.
Brussels [Belgium], November 26 (ANI/Xinhua): A new COVID-19 variant known as B.1.1.529 has been confirmed in Belgium, Belgian Minister of Health and Social Affairs Franck Vandenbroucke said on Friday.
Minsk [Belarus], November 26 (ANI/Xinhua): Roughly 1,000 Iraqi refugees in Belarus have expressed their readiness to return home, and a group of refugees returned to Iraq by plane from Minsk airport on Wednesday, reported Belarusian media.
Ulaanbaatar [Mongolia], November 26 (ANI/Xinhua): Mongolia registered 586 new local infections of COVID-19 and five more deaths over the past 24 hours, bringing the respective totals to 381,318 and 1,908, the country's health ministry said on Friday.
Wellington [New Zealand], November 26 (ANI/Xinhua): The New Zealand Police and all New Zealand Defense Force staff have become the new groups required to be vaccinated in preparation for the transition to the new COVID-19 Protection Framework on December 3.
Hong Kong, November 26 (ANI/Xinhua): Hong Kong's Center for Health Protection (CHP) reported four new imported cases of COVID-19 on Friday, taking the total tally to 12,421.
Beijing [China], November 26 (ANI): Chinese President Xi Jinping has been facing criticism from across the world after he avoided the global summit on climate change despite being a country that has one-quarter of the carbon emissions of the world.