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Volunteers manufacture masks at a makeshift workshop in Mubarak Al-Kabeer Governorate, Kuwait, April 27, 2020. (Photo by Asad/Xinhua)
- Daily record high of 9,623 new cases in Russia
- Total cases top 15,000 in Belarus
- Number of deaths reach 1,218, total cases 37,336 in India
- Senior Spanish chefs call on solidarity in catering industry
BEIJING, May 2 (Xinhua) -- The following are the updates on the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
MINSK -- Belarus reported 919 new confirmed COVID-19 cases on Saturday, taking its total to 15,828.
The country's health ministry said that 3,117 patients have recovered so far, while 97 patients with chronic diseases have died.
KUWAIT CITY -- Kuwait on Saturday reported 242 new cases of COVID-19 and three more deaths, bringing the total infections to 4,619 and the death toll to 33, the Health Ministry said in a statement.
The new cases included three Kuwaiti citizens who returned from Britain and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the statement said, adding that 232 new cases had contact with infected patients.
People are seen during the start of the marketing season at the Tobacco Sales Auction floors in Harare, Zimbabwe, April 29, 2020. (Xinhua/Shaun Jusa)
HARARE -- Zimbabwe on Saturday revised downwards the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases to 34 from the 40 previously reported.
The Ministry of Health and Child Care reported on Wednesday that the country had recorded six cases of COVID-19 in Harare and two in Bulawayo, pushing the country's tally to 40. But on Saturday, the ministry said a process done following an unusual clustering of the six cases had confirmed that all of them were negative for COVID-19.
NDOLA, Zambia -- Zambia Police Service has received donations from the Zambia Chinese Association who have donated materials to fight COVID-19 in Zambia.
Copperbelt Province Police Commissioner Charity Katanga said the association's donation has come at a right time when police were in need of the protective materials during their line of duty amid the COVID-19.
Deliverymen wait in front of a restaurant in Moscow, Russia, on April 30, 2020. (Xinhua/Evgeny Sinitsyn)
MOSCOW -- Russia has reported a daily record of 9,623 new COVID-19 cases over the last 24 hours, raising the total number of infections to 124,054 as of Saturday, the country's coronavirus response center said in a statement.
The death toll from the pandemic increased by 57 to 1,222, while 15,013 people have recovered, including 1,793 over the last 24 hours, the statement said.
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN -- Brunei reported no new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday with the national tally of cases standing at 138, marking the 13th day in a row without new cases since April 19.
According to Brunei's Ministry of Health, two more recoveries were recorded on Saturday, bringing the total number of recovered cases to 126.
MADRID -- Senior Spanish chefs called on caution and solidarity in the catering industry amid the COVID-19 crisis, when they participated in a recent online event organized by the global award "Basque Culinary World Prize."
The restaurants in Spain have been closed since the government declared a state of emergency nationwide in mid-March and they are not allowed to resume dine-in services until the end of May.
BEIJING -- Chinese health authority said Saturday that it received reports of one new confirmed COVID-19 case on the Chinese mainland Friday, which was an imported case.
Two suspected cases, both imported from abroad, were reported, the National Health Commission said in a daily report.
People line up and get body temperature checked before entering a market during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against COVID-19 in Agartala, the capital city of India's northeastern state of Tripura, April 28, 2020. (Str/Xinhua)
NEW DELHI -- India's federal health ministry Saturday said 66 new deaths due to COVID-19, besides additional 1,971 positive cases were reported since Friday evening across the country, taking the number of deaths to 1,218 and total cases to 37,336.
"As on 8:00 a.m. local time today, 1,218 deaths related to novel coronavirus have been recorded in the country," reads the information released by the ministry.
GENEVA -- The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday welcomed the news that there are no more hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Wuhan, China, praising its people's "tireless efforts" to combat the pandemic.
After more than three months of arduous fight, Wuhan, the central Chinese city once hardest hit by the coronavirus outbreak, cleared all COVID-19 cases in hospitals on Sunday.
