Bandar Seri Begawan [Brunei], December 9 (ANI/Xinhua): Brunei reported 39 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, bringing the total tally to 15,283 with 100 deaths.
Lilongwe [Malawi] December 9 (ANI/Xinhua): Health authorities in Malawi on Thursday disclosed that 3 cases of Omicron variant have been confirmed in the country and the government has tightened measures at all points of entry into the country.
Niger [Nigeria], December 9 (ANI/Xinhua): Nine people were killed and about 10 others injured when a group of gunmen attacked a village in Nigeria's central state of Niger, the police said on Thursday.
Yangon [Myanmar], December 9 (ANI/Xinhua): The number of COVID-19 cases has risen to 525,750 in Myanmar after 347 new COVID-19 cases were reported in the past 24 hours, according to a release from the Ministry of Health on Thursday.
Jakarta [Indonesia], December 9 (ANI/Xinhua): The death toll in the eruption of Semeru, a volcano in Indonesia's island of Java, has risen to 43, with 104 people injured, the National Disaster Management Agency said on Thursday.
Jakarta [Indonesia], December 9 (ANI/Xinhua): Indonesia on Thursday confirmed 220 new COVID-19 cases, raising its tally of infections to 4,258,560, according to the country's health ministry.
Tehran [Iran], December 9 (ANI/Xinhua): Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said on Thursday that Iran has not received any "constructive and forward-looking" proposals from the West for the ongoing talks in the Austrian capital of Vienna to revive the 2015 nuclear deal, formall
Hanoi [Vietnam], December 9 (ANI/Xinhua): Vietnam reported 15,311 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, including 15,300 locally transmitted and 11 imported, according to the Ministry of Health.
Moscow [Russia], December 9 (ANI/Xinhua): Russia has reported 30,209 new coronavirus cases over the past 24 hours, taking the total caseload to 9,925,806, the official monitoring and response center said Thursday.
Manila [Philippines], December 9 (ANI/Xinhua): The Philippines' Department of Health (DOH) reported 562 new COVID-19 infections on Thursday, pushing the number of confirmed cases in the Southeast Asian country to 2,835,996.
New York [US], December 9 (ANI/Xinhua): The United Nations (UN) Security Council on Wednesday strongly condemned the series of attacks against the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali.