Global cases have reached 30,881,522, according to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
The worldwide death toll has hit 958,493.
Here are the latest developments:
Monday, September 21
7:12 a.m. Australia‘s coronavirus hot spot of Victoria on Monday reported two deaths from COVID-19 and 11 cases, continuing a steady downward trend in daily cases and putting the state on course to ease more restrictions.
7:06 a.m. Brazil recorded 16,389 additional confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in the past 24 hours, and 363 deaths from the disease, the Health Ministry said on Sunday.
6:00 a.m. Britain is at a critical point in the COVID-19 pandemic and faces a very challenging winter, one of the government’s top medical advisers will warn at a public briefing on Monday. Cases in Britain are on the increase in what Prime Minister Boris Johnson has labelled a second wave of the virus, with large areas of the country subject to restrictions on social freedom and London expected to be next in line.
2:37 a.m. Fujifilm Holdings will soon apply to produce and sell its Avigan antiviral drug as a treatment for the new coronavirus in Japan, Nikkei learned Sunday.
Sunday, September 20
11:34 p.m. Myanmar announces a stay-home order for its biggest city Yangon, starting Monday, forcing all employees to work from home. The health ministry said on Sunday that it had recorded 671 new coronavirus cases.
4:18 p.m. Indonesia has suspended exports from local seafood company Putri Indah into China after its frozen fish products tested positive for the coronavirus, the country’s fisheries ministry says. An investigation is underway, and the suspension will only apply to Putri Indah. The virus was detected on the outside of the packaging.
1:44 p.m. India’s coronavirus case tally surged to 5.4 million as it added 92,605 new infections in the last 24 hours, according to data from the health ministry. The country has posted the highest single-day caseload in the world since early August and lags behind only the United States, which has 6.7 million cases in terms of cumulative infections. A total of 1,113 people died of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, the health ministry said, taking mortalities to 86,752 — a relatively low 1.6% of all cases.
11:21 a.m. AstraZeneca says its COVID-19 vaccine trial in the U.S. is still on hold.
10:11 a.m. Mainland China reported 10 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, down from the 14 cases reported a day earlier, according to the national health authority. The National Health Commission says all new cases were imported infections involving travelers from overseas.
9:48 a.m. South Korea reports 82 new coronavirus cases as of midnight Saturday, the lowest daily count of infections since mid-August, according to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Of the total, 72 were locally transmitted, bringing the total tally to 22,975, with 383 deaths.
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Source: Vietnam Insider