Palestinian woman Waad Manasrah puts on a face mask made by her, at her house in the West Bank city of Hebron, on July 9, 2020. (Photo by Mamoun Wazwaz/Xinhua)
- Kyrgyzstan: deputy health minister tests positive
- Bulgaria: a record high of 330 new cases in last 24 hours
- China: Air China flight from Moscow to Beijing suspended after over five passengers tested positive on a July 4 flight
- Nigeria: a RNA rapid testing kit for COVID-19 has been developed by Nigerian scientists
BEIJING, July 10 (Xinhua) -- The following are the updates on the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
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BISHKEK -- Kyrgyzstan's Deputy Health Minister Nurbolot Usenbaev tested positive for COVID-19, becoming one of the 511 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, the country's health ministry said Friday.
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SOFIA -- The Bulgarian Health Ministry on Friday morning reported a record high of 330 new confirmed COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the national tally to 6,672.
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MANILA -- The number of COVID-19 cases in the Philippines surged to 52,914 after the Department of Health (DOH) reported 1,233 new cases on Friday.
The DOH said that the number of recoveries further rose to 13,230 after 286 more patients have survived the disease.
The death toll also increased to 1,360 after 42 more patients have succumbed to the viral disease, the DOH said.
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MOSCOW -- Russia registered 6,635 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, taking its total to 713,936, the country's coronavirus response center said in a statement Friday.
The country's death toll has risen by 174 to 11,017, while 489,068 people have recovered, including 7,752 over the last 24 hours, according to the statement.
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JAKARTA -- The COVID-19 cases in Indonesia rose by 1,611 within one day to 72,347, with the death toll adding by 52 to 3,469, Achmad Yurianto, a Health Ministry official, said at a press conference here on Friday.
According to him, 878 more people had been discharged from hospitals, bringing the total number of recovered patients to 33,529.
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TBILISI -- Georgia confirmed five new COVID-19 cases on Friday, bringing its total to 973.
Meanwhile, 4,851 people are under a 14-day mandatory quarantine, while 231 are under observation in hospital, according to the country's center for disease control.
As of Friday, 846 of the 973 patients have recovered, while 15 others have died, the center said.
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A staff member checks temperature of an inbound passenger at the New China International Exhibition Center in Beijing, capital of China, March 17, 2020. (Xinhua/Peng Ziyang)
BEIJING -- China's civil aviation regulator said Friday that an Air China flight from Moscow to Beijing would be suspended after over five passengers tested positive for COVID-19 on a July 4 flight.
The suspension of flight CA910 will last for one week, starting July 13, and is the fourth of its kind ever imposed following the introduction of a reward and suspension mechanism by the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) on June 4.
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HONG KONG -- Hong Kong's Center for Health Protection (CHP) reported 38 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, including 32 local infections, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 1,403.
Among the new cases, 11 people were from a residential building in Sha Tin and likely to get infected by using public facilities, such as elevators, and 10 were related to previous cases, including diners of a restaurant where a cluster of new cases had been reported and close contacts of COVID-19 patients diagnosed days earlier.
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Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu (R), is seen after he commissioned 110-bed spaces at the isolation centre in Mobolaji Johnson Stadium, Onikan, Lagos State, Nigeria, April 9, 2020. (Xinhua/Emmanuel)
LAGOS -- An indigenous rapid testing kit for COVID-19 have been developed by Nigerian scientists for the identification of SARS-Cov-2, which causes COVID-19, Minister of Science and Technology Ogbonnaya Onu said.
The RNA Swift testing kits can accurately detect SARS-Cov-2 at a drastically lower cost, the minister told reporters in Abuja on Thursday. ■
