Live COVID-19 updates: Ukraine's COVID-19 deaths surpass 10,000

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

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KIEV -- Ukraine registered 256 new COVID-19 deaths in the past 24 hours, bringing the total toll to 10,112, the country's health ministry said on Wednesday.

A total of 12,496 people tested positive for COVID-19 in the country in the past 24 hours, while 8,096 patients have recovered.

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SEOUL -- South Korea reported 343 more cases of the COVID-19 as of midnight Wednesday compared to 24 hours ago, raising the total number of infections to 29,654.

The daily caseload stayed above 300 for two straight days, growing in triple digits for 12 days running due to the continued small cluster infections in Seoul and its surrounding Gyeonggi province as well as imported cases.

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SUVA -- Samoa reported on Thursday its first COVID-19 case, a sailor who arrived in the island nation on a repatriation flight from Auckland, New Zealand last Friday, with mixed testing results.

Samoa's Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi announced in a press conference early Thursday that the man in a quarantine facility tested positive for the virus on Wednesday night, but a second test on Thursday morning had returned a negative result.

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UNITED NATIONS -- Criminals and violent extremists are exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic to undermine trust in governments and even weaponize the virus, the UN said in a report on Wednesday.

According to a research report published here on Wednesday by the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute, Terrorist, violent extremist and organized criminal groups are trying to take advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to expand their activities and jeopardize the efficacy and credibility of response measures by governments.

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URUMQI -- No new confirmed COVID-19 cases or asymptomatic cases were reported in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Wednesday, the regional health commission said Thursday.

This was the 11th consecutive day that Xinjiang reported zero increase in novel coronavirus infections since recent cluster infections were tamed.

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SYDNEY -- Children could mount a COVID-19 immune response to fight off infection after being exposed to the virus through infected parents, a new Australian case study has found.

The research, led by the Murdoch Children's Research Institute, revealed that despite close contact with symptomatic infected parents, all three primary school-aged kids in a Melbourne family developed mild or no symptoms and repeatedly tested negative for COVID-19 using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test.

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NEW YORK -- U.S. COVID-19 deaths surpassed 250,000 on Wednesday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.

With the national caseload topping 11.4 million, the death toll across the United States rose to 250,029 as of 5:25 p.m. local time (2225 GMT), according to the CSSE data. Enditem

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