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The following are the updates on the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
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UNITED NATIONS -- The United Nations on Thursday launched an updated COVID-19 Global Humanitarian Response Plan that requires 6.69 billion U.S. dollars to help fragile countries cope with the pandemic.
The fund requirement of the original response plan, which was launched on March 25, was 2 billion dollars.
The updated plan is adding nine countries -- Benin, Djibouti, Liberia, Mozambique, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sierra Leone, Togo, Zimbabwe, bringing the total number to 63.
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LIMA -- Peruvian Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation Jorge Montenegro has tested positive for the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the ministry reported on Thursday.
"Yesterday, May 6, 2020, the Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation, Jorge Montenegro, received a positive result for the test that was carried out for COVID-19," the ministry said in a statement.
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CAIRO -- Tunisian health minister on Thursday praised the cooperation between his country and China in the fight against the COVID-19, which is sweeping the Middle East with a slower pace.
Tunisian Minister of Health Abdellatif Mekki said in an interview with Xinhua that the Tunisia-China cooperation "was one of Tunisia's best experiences in terms of cooperation with foreign countries to cope with the spread of the virus."
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LOS ANGELES -- A 57-year-old immigrant who was arrested this January and in custody since then was confirmed dead from novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, in Southern California, local media reported Thursday, saying it is the country's first known death of a detainee during the pandemic.
According to CBS news, Craig Sturak, spokesperson for the County of San Diego Health Human Services Agency, said the detainee died Wednesday morning in a San Diego-area hospital after being transferred in April from the privately operated Otay Mesa Detention Center located near the United States and Mexico border.
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COPENHAGEN -- Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen announced on Thursday the plan for the second phase of re-opening in the country at a press conference at Marienborg, her official residence.
The agreement was reached after intense negotiations between the government and other parliamentary parties.
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MOSCOW -- A self-isolation regime in Moscow introduced to curb the spread of the coronavirus has been extended until May 31, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said Thursday.
"Temporary restrictions on the functioning of trade, public catering, services, culture, education, sports and other non-productive industries, as well as the regime of self-isolation of citizens, will be extended until May 31," Sobyanin said in a statement on his website.
