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The following are the updates on the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
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MEXICO CITY -- Mexico reported 1,609 new COVID-19 cases and 197 more deaths during the last 24 hours, bringing the total in the country to 27,634 cases and 2,704 deaths, the country's health ministry said on Wednesday.
Mexico reported 1,120 new cases of COVID-19 and 236 new deaths on Tuesday. There are also 16,099 suspected cases.
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WASHINGTON -- Blaming China for the COVID-19 pandemic with reckless lies "could push the world to conflict," a U.S. scholar warned Wednesday.
In an opinion article published by CNN, professor Jeffrey D. Sachs, director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, blasted the "big lie" of the U.S. government that "China is the cause of America's problems."
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KIGALI -- A total of 1,400 people have been arrested in Rwanda's capital city of Kigali for violating a curfew aimed at curbing the spread of COVID-19, the police said Wednesday.
On Monday, the country imposed a curfew, preventing people from going out from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. local time.
The arrestees, including motorists and pedestrians, were still outside during the curfew, police spokesperson John Bosco Kabera said in an interview with Rwanda Television.
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ABUJA -- Airports in Nigeria will remain closed for an additional four weeks as part of the measures to control the spread of the novel coronavirus, the government said on Wednesday.
The extension is the second since March 23 when the Nigerian government suspended all of its commercial flights.
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BEIJING -- The Chinese mainland reported two new imported cases of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Wednesday, bringing the total number of imported cases to 1,680, the National Health Commission said Thursday.
The two new cases were reported in Shanghai and Guangdong respectively, the commission said.
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ALGIERS -- An Algerian health official said on Wednesday that the country's COVID-19 cases surged to 4,997 after 159 new ones were added in the past 24 hours.
Meanwhile, six new fatalities from the coronavirus were registered, raising the death toll to 476, Djamel Fourar, head of COVID-19 Detection and Follow up Commission, told reporters.
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NEW YORK -- Sixty-four cases of children with a syndrome potentially linked to COVID-19 have been found across the U.S. state of New York, the state's health department said on Wednesday.
In an advisory issued to healthcare providers, the New York State Department of Health said that as of Tuesday, 64 suspected pediatric clinical cases compatible with multi-system inflammatory syndrome associated with COVID-19 have been reported in children in hospitals statewide, including New York City.