Live COVID-19 updates: Georgia's COVID-19 cases top 140,000

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BEIJING, Dec. 2 (Xinhua) -- The following are the updates on the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

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HANOI -- Vietnam reported seven new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, bringing its total confirmed cases to 1,358 with 35 deaths from the disease so far, according to the Ministry of Health.

The new cases, including an Indian and six Vietnamese citizens, recently entered the country from abroad and were quarantined upon arrival, said the ministry, adding that one Vietnamese patient is only 10 months old.

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KABUL -- A total of 263 new COVID-19 positive cases have been registered in Afghanistan over the past 24 hours, bringing the number of patients infected with the disease to 46,980 in the country, said a statement of Public Health Ministry released here Wednesday.

According to the statement, 22 patients have died due to the disease in nine provinces over the period, totaling the number of COVID-19 related deaths to 1,822 since the outbreak of the disease in February.

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KUALA LUMPUR -- Malaysia reported 851 new COVID-19 infections, the health ministry said on Wednesday, bringing the national total to 68,020.

Health Ministry Director-General Noor Hisham Abdullah said in a press briefing that four of the new cases are imported and 847 are local transmissions.

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TBILISI -- Georgia reported 4,033 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, bringing its national tally to 143,376, the country's National Center for Disease Control and Public Health said.

Of the new cases, 1,705 were confirmed in the capital city of Tbilisi, the center said.

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MOSCOW -- Russia recorded 25,345 more COVID-19 infections over the past 24 hours, bringing the national tally to 2,347,401, the country's COVID-19 response center said Wednesday.

A record 589 new fatalities were reported over the past day, raising the country's death toll to 41,053.

Meanwhile, 26,882 patients recovered from the disease, with the total count standing at 1,830,349.

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BISHKEK -- Kyrgyzstan's COVID-19 cases reached 73,513 on Wednesday as 335 new cases have been registered across the country in the past 24 hours.

The new cases were confirmed out of 3,655 COVID-19 medical tests in the country over the past 24 hours, said the Republican Headquarters for Combating COVID-19.

The headquarters also reported 478 more recoveries and two more deaths, bringing the total recoveries to 65,189 and the death toll to 1,277. Enditem

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