BEIJING, Sept. 24 (Xinhua) -- The following are the updates on the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

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VILNIUS -- Lithuania reported 138 COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, bringing the total number of cases to 4,070, including 89 deaths and 2,253 recoveries, the country's health ministry said Thursday.

Among the new cases, 113 became infected after contact with current patients, while sources of infection of 24 others are unknown. One imported case from Austria was registered in Vilnius county during the previous day.

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WINDHOEK -- Donations of medical supplies from China to Namibia against the COVID-19 pandemic are now roughly worth 50 million Namibian dollars (2.9 million U.S. dollars), Chinese Ambassador to Namibia Zhang Yiming said.

Speaking at a press conference on Thursday, Zhang made another donation of 50,000 masks to the Khomas region in central Namibia.

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KUALA LUMPUR -- Malaysia reported 71 new COVID-19 infections, the health ministry said on Thursday, bringing the national total to 10,576.

Health Ministry Director-General Noor Hisham Abdullah said in a press statement that two of the new cases are imported and 69 are local transmissions, most from Malaysia's eastern state of Sabah.

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MOSCOW -- Russia registered 6,595 COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, taking its national total to 1,128,836, the country's COVID-19 response center said in a statement Thursday.

Meanwhile, 149 new deaths were reported, taking the death toll to 19,948.

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SUVA -- Fiji Commerce and Employers Federation (FEF) said in a latest survey Thursday that 41 percent of its members are at risk of a complete shutdown that may trigger job losses for over 3,000 workers in the fallout of COVID-19.

FEF Executive Officer Victoria Yee said that 271 registered enterprises participated in the survey which indicates that 54 percent are operating normally whereas 5 percent have shut-down.

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CAIRO -- Egypt reported late on Wednesday 121 new COVID-19 infections, raising the total number registered in the country since the outbreak to 102,375, said the Health Ministry.

In addition, 16 patients died from the novel coronavirus in the past 24 hours, bringing the death toll to 5,822, while 700 were cured and discharged from hospitals, increasing the total recoveries to 91,843, the ministry's spokesman Khaled Megahed said in a statement. Enditem

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