Live COVID-19 updates: Germany records highest daily COVID-19 death toll
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BEIJING, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) -- The following are the updates on the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
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YANGON -- Myanmar reported 605 more COVID-19 cases on Thursday, bringing the tally in the country to 132,865, according to a release from the Ministry of Health and Sports.
Ten more COVID-19 deaths were reported, bringing the death toll to 2,912, the release said.
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MUSCAT -- The Omani Health Ministry on Thursday announced 178 new COVID-19 cases, raising the total number in the sultanate to 131,264, official Oman News Agency reported.
Meanwhile, 178 people recovered during the past 24 hours, taking the overall recoveries to 123,593, while one death was reported, pushing up the death toll to 1,509, according to a ministry statement quoted by ONA.
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BERLIN -- Another 1,244 COVID-19 deaths have been reported in Germany in a 24-hour period, the highest daily figure since the start of the pandemic, official data showed on Thursday.
To date, 43,881 people in Germany have succumbed to the disease, according to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the government's agency for disease control.
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TEHRAN -- Iranian health authorities announced on Thursday 6,471 new COVID-19 cases, raising the country's overall count to 1,311,810, state TV reported.
Of the newly infected, 533 had to be hospitalized, said Sima Sadat Lari, spokeswoman for Iran's Ministry of Health and Medical Education, during her daily briefing.
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HARBIN -- Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province reported 43 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 68 asymptomatic infections on Wednesday, local health authorities said on Thursday.
All the new cases were close contacts or secondary close contacts of earlier COVID-19 infections in Huiqi Village, Wangkui County, administrated by Suihua City.
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KABUL -- Afghanistan's Ministry of Public Health on Thursday reported 57 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing the country's total tally to 53,831, including 6,402 active cases.
A total of 1,802 tests for the coronavirus were conducted in the past 24 hours, and 57 of them yielded positive results, reported in 15 provinces out of the country's 34 provinces, the ministry said in a statement.
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DHAKA -- Bangladesh recorded 813 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 16 new deaths on Thursday, bringing its total tally to 525,723 with 7,849 deaths, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said.
The official data showed that 16,608 samples were tested in the last 24 hours across Bangladesh.
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HANOI -- Vietnam recorded 10 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, bringing its total tally to 1,531 with 35 deaths, according to its Ministry of Health.
The new cases include six Vietnamese people and four foreigners who recently entered the country from abroad and were quarantined upon arrival.
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MINSK -- Belarus reported 1,967 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, taking its total to 219,663, according to the country's health ministry.
There have been 2,314 new recoveries in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 202,446, the ministry added.
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KUALA LUMPUR -- Malaysia reported 3,337 new COVID-19 infections in the highest daily spike since the outbreak, bringing the national total to 147,855, the Health Ministry said on Thursday.
Health Ministry Director-General Noor Hisham Abdullah said in a press statement that seven of the new cases are imported and 3,330 are local transmissions.
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JAKARTA -- The confirmed COVID-19 cases in Indonesia increased by 11,557 in the past 24 hours to 869,600, with the death toll adding by 295 to 25,246, the Health Ministry said on Thursday.
According to the ministry, 7,741 more patients were discharged from hospitals, bringing the total number of recoveries from the coronavirus epidemic to 711,205.
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SHIJIAZHUANG -- North China's Hebei Province reported 47 new locally transmitted confirmed COVID-19 cases between midnight Wednesday and 10 a.m. Thursday, Vice Governor Xu Jianpei said on Thursday.
The new cases were all registered in the provincial capital Shijiazhuang, Xu said at a press briefing.
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MANILA -- The Department of Health (DOH) of the Philippines reported 1,912 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, bringing the country's total tally to 494,605.
The national death toll climbed to 9,739 after 40 more patients died from the coronavirus epidemic, the DOH said. It added that 746 more patients recovered, raising the total number of recoveries to 459,252. Enditem
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