(Xinhua) — The following are the updates on the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
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NEW DELHI — India’s COVID-19 tally surpassed the 32-million mark, rising to 32,036,511 on Wednesday, as 38,353 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours across the country, showed the federal health ministry’s latest data.
Besides, as many as 497 deaths due to the pandemic since Tuesday morning took the death toll to 429,179.
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WASHINGTON — Vaccine mandates are increasingly a sticky issue in the United States as the country’s COVID-19 cases topped 36 million Tuesday, fueled by the unchecked spread of the Delta variant among under-vaccinated areas.
As of 6:21 pm on Tuesday local time (2221 GMT), the U.S. COVID-19 cases totaled 36,039,748, with 618,044 deaths, according to a Johns Hopkins University tally.
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SEOUL — South Korea’s daily COVID-19 cases hit a record high due to the continued virus spread in the Seoul metropolitan area, the health authorities said Wednesday.
The country reported 2,223 more cases of the COVID-19 for the past 24 hours, raising the total number of infections to 216,206.
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WELLINGTON — New Zealand reported two cases of COVID-19 in recent returnees in managed isolation facilities and no cases in the community on Wednesday.
The two newly imported cases came from Sri Lanka and Mexico and have remained in managed isolation and quarantine facilities in Auckland, according to the Ministry of Health.
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LONDON — In U.S. deep south states, COVID-19 hospitalizations continued to surge as residents refused to get vaccinated and many doses were wasted due to expiry, The Guardian has reported.
In the states of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, only about one third of residents have been fully vaccinated, while Georgia has a slightly higher vaccination rate of 41 percent, the report said, noting that thousands of people there are currently hospitalized, and unvaccinated people accounted for 90 percent of hospitalizations in Louisiana. Enditem
