Live updates: Global COVID-19 cases top 81 million

Confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide have exceeded 81 million, with over 1.7 million fatalities and more than 45 million recoveries, according to the latest data from Johns Hopkins University.

Here is the latest:

TheChinese mainlandon Monday recorded

27 new COVID-19 cases

, including 15 local infections. Eight local cases were reported in northeastern China's Liaoning Province and another seven in Beijing.

The** U.S.** has recorded over 19 million cases and more than 334,000 deaths. The Democratic-led U.S. House of Representatives voted 275-134 to meet President Donald Trump's demand for

$2,000 COVID-19 relief checks

on Monday, sending the measure on to an uncertain future in the Republican-controlled Senate.

**South Korea's **daily coronavirus cases bounced back to over 1,000 on Tuesday. U.S. biotech company Moderna will supply vaccine doses for 20 million people to South Korea starting in the second quarter of next year, reported Yonhap.

South Africa is the latest country to pass one million COVID-19 infections.