Sydney [Australia], December 20 (ANI/Xinhua): Australia's biggest city Sydney reintroduced stricter restrictions on Sunday as confirmed cases related to a local COVID -19 clusters continued to grow.
Bogota [Colombia], December 20 (ANI/Xinhua): Colombia saw a daily high of COVID-19 infections Saturday with 13,990 new cases reported in the past 24 hours, said health authorities.
Hong Kong, December 20 (ANI/Xinhua): An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.1 jolted 244 km SE of Katsuura, Japan at 0154 GMT on Sunday, the US Geological Survey said.
Bangkok [Thailand], December 20 (ANI/Xinhua): A curfew has been declared throughout Thailand's pandemic-hit Samut Sakhon province near Bangkok starting Saturday in the face of a spread of COVID-19 which has infected 548 people so far.
Buenos Aires [Argentina], December 20 (ANI/Xinhua): Argentine President Alberto Fernandez on Saturday highlighted multiple official aid plans set to mitigate the social effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Rio De Janeiro [Brazil], December 20 (ANI/Xinhua): Brazil's COVID-19 death toll rose to 186,356 on Saturday after 706 more patients died in the past 24 hours, said the Ministry of Health.
Ottawa [Canada], December 20 (ANI/Xinhua): Canada's COVID-19 cases surpassed 500,000, reaching 500,242 on Saturday (local times), with 14,128 deaths, while the vaccine rollout is underway in the country, according to CTV.
Ankara [Turkey], December 20 (ANI/Xinhua): Turkey reported on Saturday 22,195 Covid-19 cases, including 4,002 symptomatic patients, as the total number of positive cases in the country reached 2,004,285, its health ministry announced.
London [UK], December 19 (ANI/Xinhua): The number of coronavirus cases in Britain has surpassed 2,000,000 as another 27,052 new cases were confirmed, according to official figures released Saturday.
Yangon [Myanmar], December 19 (ANI/Xinhua): Myanmar recorded 989 new cases of COVID-19 and 26 more deaths in the past 24 hours, according to a Health Ministry release on Saturday.
Jakarta [Indonesia], December 19 (ANI/Xinhua): The COVID-19 cases in Indonesia rose by 7,751 in a day to 657,948 with the death toll rising by 145 to 19,659, the Health Ministry said on Saturday.
Dhaka [Bangladesh], December 19 (ANI/Xinhua): Bangladesh reported 1,267 new COVID-19 cases and 25 new deaths on Saturday, making the tally at 499,560 and death toll at 7,242, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said.