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

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WASHINGTON -- A seven-year-old boy, who had no known underlying health conditions, has become the youngest person known to die of COVID-19 in southern U.S. state Georgia, local media reported Friday.

"Every COVID-19 death we report is tragic, but to lose someone so young is especially heart-breaking," Nancy Nydam, director of communications for the Georgia Department of Public Health, told CBS News.

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JERUSALEM -- The number of coronavirus patients in Israel has reached 80,991 with 1,432 new cases, the Ministry of Health said Friday.

According to the ministry, the death toll has risen to 581 with five new fatalities, while the number of patients in serious condition has risen from 358 to 369, out of 776 currently in hospital.

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KATHMANDU -- Nepali government reported the highest COVID-19 cases in more than a month on Friday, as the number of cases in the Himalayan country, by an increase of 464, crossed the 22,000-mark.

The government also reported five new deaths, which is a record high daily fatality, tallying the same number of deaths reported on Thursday. A total of 70 people have so far died from the pandemic in Nepal, according to Nepal's Ministry of Health and Population.

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NEW YORK -- The number of COVID-19 cases in the United States surpassed 4.9 million on Friday, reaching 4,902,692 as of 1:35 p.m. local time (1735 GMT), according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.

Meanwhile, the national death toll from the disease rose to 160,255, according to the CSSE. Enditem

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