BEIJING, July 27 (Xinhua) -- The following are the updates on the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

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TEHRAN -- Iranian government spokesman Ali Rabiee has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, official IRNA news agency reported on Monday.

Rabiee's weekly press conference has been canceled as he was hospitalized for further treatment, said the report.

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KUWAIT CITY -- Kuwait on Monday reported 606 new COVID-19 cases and five more deaths, raising the tally of infections to 64,379 and the death toll to 438, the Health Ministry said in a statement.

Currently, 8,884 patients are receiving treatment, including 121 in ICU, the statement added.

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TAIPEI -- Four people tested positive for COVID-19 in Taiwan on Monday, raising the island's total number of COVID-19 cases to 462, the local epidemic monitoring agency said.

Three of the new patients had returned from Africa via Dubai and were sent to the hospital upon their arrival at the airport, the agency said in a press release.

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YEREVAN -- Armenia on Monday reported 73 new COVID-19 cases in the past day, bringing its total to 37,390, according to the National Center for Disease Control.

Data from the center showed that 187 more patients have recovered in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of recoveries to 26,665.

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DALIAN -- A total of 1.68 million people have been sampled for nucleic acid tests in Dalian, northeast China's Liaoning Province, since the city began large-scale testing on Sunday following reports of new COVID-19 cases.

On Sunday alone, more than 1.25 million samples were collected in the city.

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HANOI -- Vietnam reported 11 new cases of COVID-19 infection in the community on Monday, bringing its total confirmed cases to 431 with zero death so far, according to the country's Ministry of Health.

The 11 new cases included local residents of central Da Nang city and patients and staff of Da Nang Hospital, said the ministry, noting that they aged 24 to 70.

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TEHRAN -- Iran's confirmed novel coronavirus cases rose to 293,606 on Monday after an overnight registration of 2,434 new infections, state TV reported.

At her daily briefing, Sima Sadat Lari, the spokeswoman for Iran's Ministry of Health and Medical Education, said out of the new cases in the past 24 hours, 1,436 have been hospitalized.

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HANOI -- Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc agreed to implement a social distancing order in Vietnam's central city of Da Nang starting from Tuesday following three new community COVID-19 cases reported in the city in the past weekend, before which Vietnam has seen no new community cases in over three months, Vietnam News Agency reported on Monday.

The decision was made at a government meeting on combating COVID-19 held on Monday morning.

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JAKARTA -- Indonesia plans to guarantee working capital loans for private firms worth 100 trillion rupiahs (some 6.85 billion U.S. dollars) this year to help the firms withstand the novel coronavirus pandemic, a senior minister said on Monday.

Indonesian Minister for Maritime and Investment Affairs Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan noted that the stimulus package for the private companies would be launched this week. Enditem

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