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BEIJING, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) – Here are the updates on the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
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SAO PAULO – Brazil’s health ministry reported 408 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours on Sunday, bringing the country’s death toll to 186,764.
During the same period, 25,445 more cases were recorded, bringing the national total to 7,238,600. Brazil ranks third in the world for the number of confirmed cases, behind the United States and India.
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ACCRA – Ghanaian President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo said on Sunday evening that preparations were underway to secure COVID-19 vaccines for the country’s population.
In his national COVID-19 broadcast, Akufo-Addo said he had assembled a team of experts to develop a program to purchase the vaccines currently in use in some countries.
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ANKARA – Turkey joined some European countries on Sunday in banning flights from Britain and other countries after a new, more transmissible strain of COVID-19 emerged.
“Under the guidance of our President in coordination with our Department of Transport and Infrastructure, a temporary suspension has been decided for flights from the UK, Denmark, the Netherlands and South Africa to our country, “Turkish Minister of Health Fahrettin Koca tweeted.
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BEIJING – China’s National Health Commission said on Monday that it received 23 newly confirmed cases of COVID-19 on the Chinese mainland on Sunday, including 21 imported and two transmitted locally.
The two locally transmitted cases were reported in Liaoning and Heilongjiang provinces respectively, according to the commission’s daily report.
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ADDIS ABABA – The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 on the African continent reached 2,490,397 on Sunday afternoon, the African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
The Continental Disease Control and Prevention Agency said in a statement that the death toll from the pandemic stood at 58,762, while a total of 2,094,336 people infected with COVID-19 had died. restored across the continent Sunday afternoon.
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DUBLIN – The Irish government on Sunday evening announced a ban on all flights arriving in Ireland from Britain from midnight Sunday, in response to the identification of a new strain of COVID-19 in the southwest from England.
Irish government leaders held talks on Sunday and decided that in the interest of public health, Britons, regardless of nationality, should not travel to Ireland, by air or sea, a statement said. on the government website. Enditem
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