Live COVID-19 updates: Chinese mainland reports 7 new COVID-19 cases, all imported

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BEIJING, July 8 (Xinhua) -- The following are the updates on the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

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BEIJING -- Chinese health authority said Wednesday that it received reports of seven new confirmed COVID-19 cases on the Chinese mainland Tuesday, of which all were imported.

Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region reported four imported cases, while Shanxi, Guangdong and Yunnan each reported one, the National Health Commission said in its daily report.

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WASHINGTON -- The "more targeted measures" deployed by Beijing that have quelled a flare-up of COVID-19 in less than four weeks "could hold lessons for other countries" in coping with a potential resurgence of the virus, said a report by Bloomberg News on Tuesday.

"Instead of resorting to a sudden across-the-board lockdown that risked reversing the gains made since China started reopening, Beijing deployed more targeted measures," including targeted testing and lockdowns, said the report.

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BEIJING -- Beijing on Tuesday reported no new confirmed domestically transmitted cases of COVID-19, the municipal health commission said Wednesday.

No new suspected or asymptomatic cases were reported, and 13 were discharged from hospital after recovery on Tuesday, the commission said in a daily report.

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ISLAMABAD -- The Pakistani government said on Tuesday that COVID-19 may widely spread in the country during the forthcoming Eid al-Adha festival if people do not follow the standard operating procedures (SOPs) formed to contain the spread of the disease.

Briefing media about the cabinet meeting following its conclusion, the country's Information Minister Shibli Faraz said that people should follow the SOPs and keep taking precautionary measures to avoid the spread of the disease during Eid al-Adha to be observed by the end of this month.

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LOS ANGELES -- Public health officials in Los Angeles County on Tuesday reported the highest daily increase of 4,015 new COVID-19 cases, with new hospitalizations steadily climbing in the most populous U.S. county with a population of over 10 million.

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health also confirmed 46 new COVID-19 deaths in a daily update. So far, 120,539 cases and 3,579 deaths have been registered across the county. Enditem

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