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The following are the updates on the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
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CAPE TOWN -- The total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in South Africa has reached 10,015, with 595 new cases reported in the past 24 hours, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said on Sunday.
"We note with concern that the Western Cape and Eastern Cape combined comprise 84 percent of the total new cases," the minister said in his daily update.
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BEIJING -- A total of 24 patients of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) were discharged from hospitals Sunday after recovery on the Chinese mainland, the National Health Commission said Monday.
Altogether 78,144 patients had been cured and discharged from hospitals by the end of Sunday, the commission said in its daily report.
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PARIS -- The death toll from the coronavirus pandemic in France rose by 70 to 26,380, the lowest daily toll in nearly two months, while the number of patients in intensive care keeps falling, the Health Ministry said on Sunday.
A total of 22,569 patients with the COVID-19 were in hospitals, down by 45 in the last 24 hours. Of those hospitalized, 2,776 people received intensive treatment, a fall of 36 from Saturday, the ministry data showed.
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AMMAN -- Jordan on Sunday confirmed 18 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number in the country to 540.
The new cases were 12 Jordanians as contacts with a confirmed truck driver case and six non-Jordanian drivers who tested positive at the borders, according to a statement by Health Minister Saad Jaber obtained by Xinhua.
Meanwhile, two more patients recovered from the coronavirus, while 93 were still in hospitals for treatment, Jaber said.
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BEIJING -- Chinese health authority said Monday that it received reports of 17 new confirmed COVID-19 cases on the Chinese mainland Sunday, of which seven were imported cases reported in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
Ten cases were domestically transmitted, with five reported in Hubei Province, three in Jilin Province, one in Liaoning Province and one in Heilongjiang Province, the National Health Commission said in a daily report.
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WASHINGTON -- U.S. Vice President Mike Pence has been distancing himself from others after his press secretary tested positive for the coronavirus, U.S. media reported Sunday.
"Vice President Pence will continue to follow the advice of the White House Medical Unit and is not in quarantine," Devin O'Malley, a spokesman for Pence, was cited by The Associated Press as saying. "Additionally, Vice President Pence has tested negative every single day and plans to be at the White House tomorrow."
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NAIROBI -- Huawei on Sunday pledged to support Africa's COVID-19 epidemic control efforts, an official said.
Chen Lei, president of Huawei Southern Africa region said in commentary published in The Standard newspaper that its remote video conferencing systems have already helped medical institutions communicate more efficiently.
"We have also implemented an AI-based diagnosis solution in several medical institutions. CT scan reviews can now be completed in two minutes, 80 percent faster, in a race with time, critical for saving lives," Chen said.
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LONDON --British Prime Minister Boris Johnson revealed his government's approach to tackling the COVID-19 pandemic in the next phase in his address to the nation Sunday evening.
The prime minister said that the government has a plan to ease lockdown, but "it is a conditional plan," and since "our priority is to protect the public and save lives, we cannot move forward unless we satisfy the five tests."
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NEW DELHI -- Former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was admitted at Delhi-based All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) after he complained of chest pain, reported the Press Trust of India (PTI) late on Sunday evening.
He has been kept under observation at a cardio-thoracic ward, added the report.
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CAIRO -- Egypt received on Sunday the second batch of medical aid from the Chinese government for the North African country to fight the COVID-19 epidemic.
The second batch consists of 440 boxes weighing 4.7 tons, including 10,000 N95 face masks, 10,000 protective suits and 70,000 nucleic acid detection reagents, said Chinese Ambassador to Egypt Liao Liqiang in a ceremony held at the headquarters of Egypt's health ministry's main storehouse for medical supplies in Cairo.
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QUITO -- Ecuador on Sunday reported 2,127 deaths from COVID-19 as the number of infections reached 29,559.
The death toll saw a spike from the 1,717 fatalities reported in the previous 24 hours.
The substantial one-day increase in deaths was due to "a reclassification of deceased persons," according to the Ministry of Public Health.
