Live COVID-19 updates: Indonesia reports 3,267 newly-confirmed COVID-19 cases, 91 new deaths

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BEIJING, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- The following are the updates on the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

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JAKARTA -- The COVID-19 cases in Indonesia rose by 3,267 within one day to 336,716, with the death toll adding by 91 to 11,935, the Health Ministry said on Monday.

According to the ministry, 3,492 more people were discharged from hospitals, bringing the total number of recovered patients to 258,519.

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BEIJING -- China's National Health Commission on Monday sent a working group to Qingdao City in east China's Shandong Province to guide COVID-19 epidemic control.

Qingdao has reported six new confirmed cases and the same number of new asymptomatic cases of COVID-19 since fresh infections emerged in the city over the weekend, the municipal health commission said early on Monday.

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MOSCOW -- Russia registered 13,592 COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, bringing its national tally to 1,312,310, the country's COVID-19 response center said Monday.

Daily coronavirus cases in the capital Moscow have increased by 4,395, with a cumulative case count of 334,813, the center reported.

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RIYADH -- Saudi Arabia's biggest lender National Commercial Bank said on Sunday that it will purchase rival lender Samba in a deal valued at about 15 billion U.S. dollars.

The merger comes as Saudi Arabia is grappling with the shocks of the COVID-19 pandemic and low crude oil prices against the backdrop of a global economic slowdown.

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LUANDA -- The absence of COVID-19 tests by the national football team of Guinea-Bissau led to the cancellation of the friendly game scheduled for Sunday with their Angolan counterpart in preparation for the AFCON 2021 qualifiers.

A press release by the Angolan Football Federation (FAF) stressed that the game with Guinea-Bissau was canceled because the opposing team did not present COVID-19 test results, disrupting Angola's plans.

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SYDNEY -- The number of people in Australia requiring food donations almost doubled during COVID-19, with casual workers and international students hit particularly hard, a new report revealed Monday.

According to the country's largest provider of charitable food and groceries, Foodbank, three in 10 of the Australians experiencing food insecurity in 2020 had not done so before COVID-19.

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TEGUCIGALPA -- Honduras on Sunday received a second shipment of two mobile hospitals that arrived by ship from Turkey to treat COVID-19 patients, the government said.

The hospitals left Istanbul on Sept. 5 and made stopovers in Las Palmas, Spain, Trinidad and Tobago and the Dominican Republic before arriving in the Central American country, according to Strategic Investment of Honduras (Invest-H). Enditem

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