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World News in Brief:July 24

 
World News in Brief:July 24

People walk on a main road in Dhaka, Bangladesh, July 23, 2021. Starting Friday morning, Bangladesh entered its most severe nationwide lockdown to curb the rampant spread of COVID-19. Authorities decided to impose the strict lockdown from July 23 to Aug. 5 after relaxing restrictions for a week on the occasion of Eid al-Adha festival which was celebrated here Wednesday. (Photo: Xinhua)   

Energy and environment ministers of the G20 group closed a two-day meeting with a 58-article final communique on Friday, but without an agreement on a specific commitment related to global temperature target, the G20 Italian presidency said.


* Rescue teams in India struggled through thick sludge and debris on Saturday to reach dozens of submerged homes as the death toll from landslides and accidents caused by torrential monsoon rain rose to 125.

* China on Friday raised its emergency response for flood and typhoon control from level IV to level III, as Typhoon In-Fa approaches the country's eastern coastal areas and heads for landfall as a strong typhoon.

* An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.7 struck Batangas province in the Philippines, south of Manila, before dawn on Saturday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology reported.

* US President Joe Biden on Friday reaffirmed his country's support for Afghanistan in a call with Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani as fighting escalated along with the US withdrawal from the Asian country.

* Eurogroup President Paschal Donohoe said in Athens on Thursday that he was optimistic about the "positive" and "bright" prospects of the post-COVID-19 economic recovery of Greece and Europe as a whole.

* Cyprus and Lebanon signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in Nicosia on Friday on cooperation in the energy sector, the Cypriot government said in a statement.

* China reported 35 new COVID-19 cases in the mainland on July 23, down from 48 cases a day earlier, the country's national health authority said on Saturday. The total accumulated number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in mainland China now stands at 92,497, while the death toll remains unchanged at 4,636.

* Laos reported another record high of 278 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday, surpassing the previous record of 256 cases registered on Thursday, according to the Lao Ministry of Health.

* The Philippines' Department of Health (DOH) reported on Saturday 6,216 new COVID-19 infections, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the Southeast Asian country to 1,543,281. The DOH said the death toll climbed to 27,131 after 241 more patients died from the viral disease.

* Cambodia on Saturday confirmed 860 new COVID-19 infections including 395 imported cases, pushing the national total caseload to 72,104, the Ministry of Health (MoH) said in a statement.

* Malaysia's health ministry reported 15,902 new coronavirus cases on Saturday, the highest number of daily infections since the beginnng of the pandemic. This brings the cumulative number of cases in the country to 996,393.

* Vaccinated people accounted for three-quarters of Singapore's infections in the last four weeks, government data showed.

* Los Angeles reported 3,058 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, the highest single-day increase since Feb. 13. The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health said in a release that it was the third day in a row with more than 2,500 daily cases reported. Over the last four days, more than 10,000 cases were reported in the most populous county in the United States, home to over 10 million residents.

* Brazil on Friday reported 108,732 new cases of COVID-19 in 24 hours, raising the total caseload to 19,632,443. With 64,056 cases added due to under-reporting from the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, the figure marks the second-highest number of new daily cases since the onset of the outbreak.

* India's COVID-19 tally rose to 31,332,159 on Saturday as 39,097 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours across the country, showed the federal health ministry's latest data. Besides, 546 deaths due to the pandemic since Friday morning took the death toll to 420,016.

* Russia on Saturday reported nearly 24,000 new COVID-19 cases and a repeat all-time high in the number of daily deaths, at 799, but some officials suggested that infections, especially in Moscow, may have peaked.

* Looking to counter the increasing menace of the coronavirus Delta variant, a growing number of European countries are raising their defences and trying to pressure more people to get vaccinated to stay safe.

* Britain has reported another 36,389 coronavirus cases in the latest 24-hour period, bringing the total number of coronavirus cases in the country to 5,637,975, according to official figures released Friday.

* The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany increased by 1,919 to 3,754,511, data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases showed on Saturday. The reported death toll rose by 28 to 91,520, the tally showed.

* Turkey's new cases have doubled in just over two weeks to 9,586 on Thursday, its highest since May 19, according to an official tally.

* New South Wales, Australia's most populous state, on Saturday reported 163 locally acquired cases of COVID-19, its biggest daily rise, up from 136 a day earlier, in a worsening outbreak that has led to an urgent push to speed up vaccinations.

* Canada reported an average of 448 new COVID-19 cases daily on July 16-22, up 13 percent over the previous week, the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) said Friday. As of Friday, Canada reported a cumulative total of 1,425,552 cases, including 26,535 deaths, according to CTV.

* Germany is classifying Spain and the Netherlands as areas with a high incidence of coronavirus, which means that unvaccinated travellers returning from those countries will have to quarantine for at least five days.

* Spaniards who took one of the biggest hits from COVID-19 at the start of the pandemic are now among some of the keenest when it comes to getting vaccines, figures show.

* Cases of COVID-19 have increased in Sweden's main cities with the more contagious Delta having emerged as the dominant variant in the country, health authorities said, though it added infection levels nationally remained low.

* Vaccination against COVID-19 has prevented about 700 deaths since May 2021 in Portugal, according to study results released by the Public Health Institute of the University of Porto (ISPUP) on Friday.

* Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine could become the second shot okayed for adolescent use in the European Union after regulators on Friday recommended approving it for 12- to 17-year-olds ahead of US authorities.

* A longer gap between doses of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine leads to higher overall antibody levels than a shorter gap, a British study found, but antibody levels are not sustained for long after the first dose.


Xinhua,Reuters

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