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India will have nearly 120 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines available for domestic use in June, the government said on Sunday. This marks a significant jump from the 79.4 million doses that were available in May. |
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* China’s cargo spacecraft, carrying supplies, equipment and propellant, docked with the space station’s key module Tianhe on Sunday, the official news agency Xinhua reported. * Malaysia is planning to set up more mega vaccination centres and get private doctors to join immunisation efforts, after five consecutive days of record daily coronavirus infections. * Myanmar’s Central Committee on Prevention, Control and Treatment for COVID-19 on Saturday announced extension of the period for preventive measures against the pandemic to June 30. * The COVID-19 cases in Indonesia rose by 6,565 within one day to 1,809,926, with the death toll adding by 162 to 50,262, the Health Ministry said on Saturday. According to the ministry, 5,417 more people were discharged from hospitals, bringing the total number of recovered patients to 1,659,974. * Cuba reported 1,188 cases and 10 deaths from COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of cases to 140,087 and the death toll to 943, the Ministry of Public Health reported on Saturday. So far, just over 800,000 Cubans have been vaccinated. * Yemen’s Houthi militia said they launched a fresh bomb-laden drone attack at dawn on Sunday on the King Khalid Air Base in Saudi Arabia’s southwestern border city of Khamis Mushait. * Nearly 621 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines had been administered across China as of Saturday, the National Health Commission said Sunday. * The COVID-19 lockdown in the Indian capital region has been extended for another week until June, the government has announced. However, the restrictions have been eased for two sectors — manufacturing and construction businesses, the government said on Saturday. * Russia reported 9,694 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, the highest number since the end of March, which took the national tally to 5,063,442 infections. * Republic of Korea’s Prime Minister Kim Boo-kyum said on Sunday that 1 million doses of Johnson & Johnson’s (J&J) coronavirus vaccines will arrive this week, including for 550,000 soldiers, after the United States almost doubled its earlier pledge. * The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany increased by 3,852 to 3,679,148, data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases showed on Sunday. The reported death toll rose by 56 to 88,406, the tally showed. * Australia’s Victoria state reported five new local COVID-19 cases on Sunday, including in a worker at a Melbourne aged care facility where not all of the residents have been vaccinated. * Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi held meetings with Iraqi leaders on Saturday during his official visit to Baghdad to strengthen bilateral ties in various fields. * A passenger ship with about 200 people aboard caught fire in the waters off North Maluku province in eastern Indonesia on Saturday and all the people aboard were rescued safely, a senior disaster agency official said. * Maldivian Minister of Finance Ibrahim Ameer has said that the country’s economy, which has been battered by the COVID-19 pandemic, will normalize in two years, state media reported here Saturday. * Another 3,398 people in Britain have tested positive for COVID-19, down from 4,182 cases reported Friday, which was the highest daily number since April 1, according to official figures released Saturday. The total number of coronavirus cases in the country now stands at 4,480,945, according to official figures. * Iraq’s Ministry of Health on Saturday reported 3,257 new COVID-19 cases during the past 24 hours, raising the nationwide caseload to 1,193,608. The ministry also confirmed 23 new deaths, bringing the death toll from the virus to 16,334, while the total recoveries in Iraq climbed by 5,425 to 1,107,101. * A total of 8,521,177 people have received first doses of COVID-19 vaccine in Morocco by Saturday, the Ministry of Health said in a statement. Meanwhile, the number of people vaccinated with two doses has reached 5,242,075, according to the ministry statement. * The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa reached 4,812,313 as of Saturday afternoon, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said. The Africa CDC, the specialized healthcare agency of the 55-member African Union, said the death toll from the pandemic stands at 130,025 while 4,351,816 patients across the continent have recovered from the disease. * Colombia reported a daily record of 540 deaths from COVID-19 on Saturday, raising the nationwide death toll to 87,747, the health ministry said. Meanwhile, 20,494 new infections were reported, bringing the national tally to 3,363,061, according to the ministry. * The United Nations (UN) has expanded humanitarian relief to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), as the country has evacuated residents from Goma in case of another volcanic eruption. * A small jet carrying seven people crashed into a Tennessee lake on Saturday, killing all on board, authorities said later in the day. Source: Nhan Dan Online |
