Live COVID-19 updates: CDC director admits U.S. failed to recognize coronavirus threat from Europe
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BEIJING, July 30 (Xinhua) -- The following are the updates on the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
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WASHINGTON -- The United States failed to recognize the coronavirus threat from Europe in time, Robert Redfield, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has said.
Since the country's COVID-19 epidemic broke out, the United States has reported over 4.4 million confirmed cases and over 150,000 deaths.
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MOSCOW -- Russia registered 5,509 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, taking its total to 834,499, the country's COVID-19 response center said in a statement Thursday.
Meanwhile, 129 new deaths were reported, taking the nationwide count to 13,802, according to the statement.
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NEW YORK -- Global COVID-19 cases have surpassed 17 million on Thursday, the most recent statistics of the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University showed.
The global count reached 17,029,155 with a total of 667,011 deaths, according to the latest data.
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BEIJING -- Chinese health authority said Thursday that it received reports of 105 new confirmed COVID-19 cases on the Chinese mainland Wednesday, including 102 domestically transmitted cases and three imported ones.
Ninety-six of the 102 domestically transmitted cases were reported in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, five in Liaoning Province, and one in Beijing Municipality, the National Health Commission said in its daily report, adding that one new suspected COVID-19 case imported from abroad was reported in Shanghai Municipality.
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SEOUL -- South Korea reported 18 more cases of COVID-19 as of midnight Thursday compared to 24 hours ago, raising the total number of infections to 14,269.
The daily caseload fell below 20 in 38 days since June 22, but it continued to grow in double digits due to imported cases and small cluster infections.
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HANOI -- Vietnam's Ministry of Health on Thursday morning confirmed nine new cases of COVID-19, all of which are in the community, bringing the total cases in the country to 459.
Vietnam's central city of Da Nang, which has seen several community cases since July 25, reported eight new infections including local citizens, according to the ministry.
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WELLINGTON -- New Zealand reported one new case of COVID-19 on Thursday, with the number of active cases in the country reaching 24, all in managed isolation facilities, according to the Ministry of Health.
It has been 90 days since the last case of COVID-19 was acquired locally from an unknown source, according to the ministry. Enditem
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