Tehran [Iran], October 30 (ANI/Xinhua): The Iranian health ministry reported on Friday 9,893 new COVID-19 cases, raising the country's total infections to 5,909,402.
Addis Ababa [Ethiopia], October 29 (ANI/Xinhua): The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa reached 8,487,743 cases as of Friday afternoon, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said.
Beijing [China], October 29 (ANI): China's Xinjiang has become a hub of a manmade humanitarian crisis of the Uyghurs as the country makes billions of dollars by alleged forced organ harvesting, according to a media report.
Aden [Yemen], October 29 (ANI/Xinhua): An overnight missile attack carried out by the Houthi group against Yemen's oil-rich province of Marib killed 13 people, a government official told Xinhua on Friday.
Kuala Lumpur [Malaysia], October 29 (ANI/Xinhua): The Malaysian government led by Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob on Friday proposed an expansionary national budget aimed at helping the country recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Yerevan [Armenia], October 29 (ANI/Xinhua): Armenia on Friday reported 2,096 new COVID-19 cases, taking its total caseload to 304,546, according to the country's health ministry.
Manila [Phillippines], October 29 (ANI/Xinhua): The Philippines' Department of Health (DOH) reported 4,043 new COVID-19 infections on Friday, pushing the number of confirmed cases in the Southeast Asian country to 2,779,943.
Seoul [South Korea], October 29 (ANI/Xinhua): South Korea planned to launch the so-called "living with COVID-19" guideline from next month as the full vaccination rate topped the key precondition of 70 per cent, the health ministry said Friday.
Beijing [China], October 29 (ANI): The Chinese economic slowdown in the third quarter of the current financial year unveils the problem of the growing debt in the real estate industry in the country with millions of houses unsold and unoccupied.
Beijing [China], October 29 (ANI): Chinese President Xi Jinping is set to participate in the Group of 20 (G20) Leaders' Summit in Rome, Italy during the weekend via video conference, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Friday.
Washington [US], October 29 (ANI/Xinhua): The United States could have saved tens of thousands of lives if certain measures against COVID-19 were well implemented in the country in the early stages of the pandemic, a former health official has said.