Tehran [Iran], December 16 (ANI/Xinhua): Iran's Health Ministry reported 7,603 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, raising the total nationwide infections to 1,131,077.
Kabul [Afghanistan], December 16 (ANI/Xinhua): Afghanistan on Wednesday reported 230 newly confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing its total tally to 49,970.
Tbilisi [Georgia], December 16 (ANI/Xinhua): Georgia reported 3,487 new Covid-19 cases, bringing its national total to 198,387, the government's official coronavirus information service StopCoV.ge reported on Wednesday.
Zagreb [Croatia], December 16 (ANI/Xinhua): Croatia recorded 2,360 new Covid-19 cases, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 179,718, said the Croatian Institute of Public Health on Tuesday.
Bishkek [Kyrgyzstan], December 16 (ANI/Xinhua): The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Kyrgyzstan reached 78,151 on Wednesday as 241 new cases were registered across the country in the past 24 hours, said Kyrgyz's Republican Headquarters for Combating COVID-19.
Sydney [Australia], December 16 (ANI/Xinhua): Australian researchers called for people with serious mental illness to be given priority access to Covid-19 vaccines when they become available, according to a statement released Wednesday.
Berlin [Germany], December 16 (ANI/Xinhua): Germany reported on Wednesday 27,728 more COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, bringing the national tally to 1,379,238, according to data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI).
Sofia [Bulgaria], December 16 (ANI/Xinhua): Bulgaria has confirmed 2,743 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the country's total to 184,287, according to data published by the country's Unified Information Portal on Wednesday.
Canberra [Australia], December 16 (ANI/Xinhua): Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has told Australians stranded overseas that they remain his "first priority."
Adelaide [Australia], December 16 (ANI): Prithvi Shaw and Wriddhiman Saha have been named in India's playing XI for the first Test against Australia, beginning on Thursday at the Adelaide Oval.
Seoul [South Korea], December 16 (ANI/Xinhua): The city government of Seoul, South Korea's capital, announced its plan Wednesday to conduct COVID-19 tests on all employees in high-risk facilities including restaurants and religious facilities.
Abuja [Nigeria], December 16 (ANI/Xinhua): Terror group Boko Haram on Tuesday claimed responsibility for abducting over 300 students in Nigeria's northwestern state of Katsina.