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The following are the updates on the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
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NEW DELHI -- Deaths due to COVID-19 crossed the 14,000 mark, reaching 14,011, as the total cases reached 440,215 in India, said the latest data issued by the federal health ministry on Tuesday.
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MUMBAI -- Mumbai has launched a rapid action plan called "Mission Zero" to bring down the COVID-19 positive cases in the city, a statement by the city's civic authority said late Monday.
The ambitious project by BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation will comprise of 50 mobile dispensary vans going to different areas to conduct preliminary check-up and identify patients in the country's financial capital where the positive cases are over 67,000 and active cases are close to 30,000.
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WELLINGTON -- New Zealand reported two new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, bringing the total active cases in the country to 10, which were all linked to overseas travel, according to the Ministry of Health.
Tuesday's cases were a man in his 20s who arrived on June 19 on from India, and a man in his 20s who arrived on June 18 from the United States, Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield told a press conference.
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WASHINGTON -- American biopharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences announced on Monday trials of an inhaled version of the antiviral drug Remdesivir are about to start.
Remdesivir, which is currently administered intravenously through infusions, is the only drug that has an emergency use authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat COVID-19.
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KAMPALA -- Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Monday said some COVID-19 lockdown measures would remain in place in a bid to prevent the virus from spreading in the community.
In a televised address, Museveni said that the country was now entering a dangerous stage where more community cases were being registered.
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BEIJING -- Chinese health authority said Tuesday that it received reports of 22 newly confirmed COVID-19 cases on the Chinese mainland Monday, of whom 13 were domestically transmitted and nine were imported.
All the domestically transmitted cases were reported in Beijing, the National Health Commission said in its daily report.
