Live COVID-19 updates: COVID-19 patient in Fiji charged for breaching self-quarantine
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BEIJING, May 30 (Xinhua) -- The following are the updates on the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
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BISHKEK -- Kyrgyzstan's nationwide tally of confirmed COVID-19 cases reached 1,722 after 60 new cases were reported on Saturday.
Deputy Health Minister Nurbolot Usenbaev said at his daily online news briefing that most of the new cases are close contacts of confirmed cases.
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TASHKENT -- Uzbekistan has extended quarantine measures until June 15 while easing some lockdown restrictions to allow many businesses to reopen, the Special Republican Commission to Combat Coronavirus said Saturday.
Restrictions are eased in districts, towns and cities depending on the sanitary and epidemiological situation of COVID-19, which Uzbek authorities have divided into red, yellow and green levels of quarantine severity.
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MALE -- The number of COVID-19 cases in the Maldives reached 1,591 on Saturday, according to data from the Heath Protection Agency (HPA).
Fourty-four additional COVID-19 cases including 13 Maldivians, 29 Bangladeshis and two Indians were confirmed on Saturday as of 3:30 a.m. local time.
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QUITO -- A public security network designed by Chinese engineers has become a strategic tool of Ecuadoran authorities to protect public health and social stability amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Juan Zapata, general director of the Integrated Security Service ECU 911, Ecuador's integrated emergency service hotline, recently told Xinhua that the Chinese-made technological platform that supports the country's emergency response system has been incredibly important during the global health crisis.
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SUVA -- A Fijian COVID-19 patient was charged on Saturday for breaching self-quarantine in Labasa, capital of Fiji's second largest island of Vanua Levu.
According to Fijivillage, a local news website, the 54-year-old Mohammad Saheed, Fiji's ninth COVID-19 patient from the village of Soasoa near Labasa, appeared in a special court sitting at the Labasa Magistrates Court. Enditem
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