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

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LUSAKA -- The African Union (AU) has allocated Zambia 8.7 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines under an initiative the African body was pioneering, a government official said on Sunday.

Zambia's Ambassador to Ethiopia and Permanent Representative to the AU Emmanuel Mwamba said the country's allocation may rise to 25 million doses by December 2021.

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TOKYO -- The Tokyo metropolitan government reported 986 new infections in the capital on Sunday, marking the first time the daily tally has dropped below 1,000 in 12 days and bringing the cumulative total to 93,890.

The number of patients in Tokyo designated as being in a "serious condition" is 156, the metropolitan government said.

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GUANGZHOU -- South China's Guangdong Province is targeting economic growth of more than 6 percent this year, Governor Ma Xingrui said Sunday.

Guangdong, a manufacturing heartland and leading foreign trade player in the country, has been successful in resuming production and business after the COVID-19 outbreak, according to the report.

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DHAKA -- Bangladesh reported 473 new COVID-19 cases and 20 additional deaths on Sunday, bringing the tally to 531,799 and death toll to 8,023, the Directorate General of Health Services said.

The official data showed that 14,169 samples were tested in the last 24 hours across Bangladesh.

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KABUL -- A total of 77 new COVID-19 cases have been registered in Afghanistan over the past 24 hours, bringing the total number in the country to 54,672, the Public Health Ministry said on Sunday.

The ministry also said eight patients died over the period, bringing the number of COVID-19 related deaths to 2,386 since the breakout of the pandemic in the country in February 2020.

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KUALA LUMPUR -- Malaysia reported 3,346 new COVID-19 infections, the health ministry said on Sunday, bringing the national total to 183,801.

Health Ministry Director-General Noor Hisham Abdullah said in a press statement that seven of the new cases are imported and 3,339 are local transmissions.

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WELLINGTON -- A 56-year-old New Zealand woman living in Northland tested positive 10 days after finishing her 14-day mandatory managed isolation, said the New Zealand Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield on Sunday afternoon during a media conference.

The woman was an overseas returnee who had spent four months in Europe and returned from London via Singapore, said Bloomfield.

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NEW DELHI -- The Indian government Sunday said nearly 1.6 million people were vaccinated against COVID-19 since the beginning of the inoculation drive last week across the country.

The inoculation drive against COVID-19 across India began on Jan. 16. Enditem

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