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The following are updates on the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysia reported 1,638 new COVID-19 infections, the Health Ministry said on Saturday, bringing the national total to 349,610.
Health Ministry Director General Noor Hisham Abdullah said in a press release that seven of the new cases are imported and 1,631 are local broadcasts.
Three more deaths have been reported, bringing the death toll to 1,286.
HANOI – Vietnam recorded six new cases of COVID-19 infection on Saturday, bringing the total confirmed cases in the country to 2,626, according to the country’s Health Ministry.
The new cases are all Vietnamese nationals who recently entered the country from abroad and were quarantined upon arrival, the ministry said.
JAKARTA – Indonesia’s COVID-19 cases rose by 4,345 in one day to 1,527,524, and the death toll rose by 91 to 41,242, the Health Ministry said on Saturday.
According to the ministry, 5,197 more people were discharged from hospitals, bringing the total number of recovered patients to 1,366,214.
The virus has spread to the 34 provinces of the country.
TBILISI – Georgia received the first batch of COVID-19 vaccines purchased from China on Saturday as the country’s latest effort to curb the spread of the pandemic.
The newly arrived vaccines made by China’s Sinopharm Group are the third type of vaccine Georgia has introduced to the country so far.
DHAKA – Bangladesh reported 5,683 new COVID-19 cases and 58 new deaths on Saturday, bringing the tally to 630,277 and the death toll at 9,213, the General Directorate of Health Services (DGHS) said.
Official data showed that 24,548 samples were analyzed in the last 24 hours in Bangladesh.
PHNOM PENH – Cambodia confirmed on Saturday another 99 local COVID-19 cases linked to community transmission on February 20, bringing the total to 2,116 so far, according to a statement from the Ministry of Health (MoH).
Of the new cases, 44 were found in Svay Rieng province, 33 in the capital Phnom Penh, eight in Koh Kong province, five in Kandal province, four in Preah Sihanouk province, four in Preah Sihanouk province. Tboung Khmum and one in Takeo province.
NAIROBI – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved a funding package of 254.41 billion shillings (about 2.34 billion US dollars) to assist the Kenyan government in its response to COVID-19.
The IMF said the funds will also assist Kenya in its plan to address the urgent need to reduce debt vulnerabilities while safeguarding resources to protect vulnerable groups.
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN – Brunei reported a new confirmed case of COVID-19 on Saturday, bringing the national count to 214.
According to the Brunei Ministry of Health, Case 214 is a 23-year-old woman who arrived in the country from Jakarta, Indonesia, on March 21, 2021. Contact tracing has not found close contacts for this case, as it was quarantined upon arrival. in the country.
TEHRAN – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday that the fourth wave of COVID-19 resurgence was recorded in two provinces, the Islamic Republic News Agency reported.
“If people from other provinces do not respect (the health guidelines), they may also experience the fourth wave,” Rouhani said, as quoted.
ADDIS ABABA – The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa reached 4,252,676 as of noon on Saturday, the African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC Africa) said.
Africa’s CDC, the African Union (AU) specialty health care agency, said the death toll related to the pandemic amounted to 113,429, while 3,800,130 patients across the continent have recovered from the disease.
