Seoul [South Korea], December 8 (ANI/Xinhua): South Korea planned to secure COVID-19 vaccines from foreign drugmakers for 44 million people, or 88 per cent of the country's total population, the health ministry said Tuesday.
Dublin [Ireland], December 8 (ANI/Xinhua): Ireland reported 242 new coronavirus cases over the past 24 hours as of midnight Sunday, bringing the national tally to 74,468, the country's health authorities said in a statement.
Bucharest [Romania], December 8 (ANI/Xinhua): Romanian Prime Minister Ludovic Orban announced his resignation late Monday, after the ruling National Liberal Party (PNL) he leads failed to achieve its goal of scoring the best in Sunday's parliamentary election.
Minsk [Belarus], December 7 (ANI/Xinhua): Belarus reported 1,796 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, taking its total to 148,953, according to the country's health ministry.
Tbilisi [Georgia], December 7 (ANI/Xinhua): Georgia reported 2,501 new Covid-19 cases on Monday, bringing its total to 164,776, the National Center for Disease Control and Public Health said.
Yangon [Myanmar], December 7 (ANI/Xinhua): The total number of Covid-19 cases in Myanmar has increased to 100,431 as of Monday after 1,276 more cases were reported, according to a release from the Ministry of Health and Sports.
Tehran [Iran], December 07 (ANI/Xinhua): Iran reported on Monday 10,827 new Covid-19 infections in the past 24 hours, taking the tally to 1,051,374 in the country.
Kuala Lumpur [Malaysia], December 7 (ANI/Xinhua): Malaysia reported 1,600 new Covid-19 infections, the Health Ministry said on Monday, bringing the national total to 74,294.
Abuja [Nigeria], December 7 (ANI/Xinhua): The Nigerian military said Monday that three terrorists were killed after troops thwarted an armed attack on a village in the central state of Benue.
Quito [Ecuador], December 7 (ANI/Xinhua): Ecuador registered another 607 cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of cases to 197,998, the Ministry of Public Health reported Sunday.
London [UK], December 7 (ANI/Xinhua): Another 17,272 people in Britain have tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total number of coronavirus cases in the country to 1,723,242, according to official figures released Sunday.
Berlin [Germany], December 6 (ANI/Xinhua): Germany has reported 17,767 new cases of COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, bringing the nation's total to 1,171,323, the federal Robert Koch Institute (RKI) said on Sunday.