BEIJING, Feb. 8 (Xinhua) -- The following are the updates on the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

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NEW DELHI -- India's COVID-19 tally rose to 10,838,194 on Monday even as 11,831 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours, said the latest data from the federal health ministry.

According to the official data, the death toll mounted to 155,080 as 84 COVID-19 patients died since Sunday morning.

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CHANGCHUN -- Northeast China's Jilin Province reported no new confirmed or asymptomatic COVID-19 cases on Sunday, local health authorities said Monday.

This is the first time no new confirmed or asymptomatic cases have been reported since Jan. 11, when the province reported four imported asymptomatic infections, according to the provincial health commission.

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ULAN BATOR -- Mongolia registered 50 new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, raising its national tally to 2,073, the country's National Center for Communicable Diseases (NCCD) said Monday.

"We conducted 12,252 tests during the past 24 hours, out of the total tests, 50 were positive in the capital city Ulan Bator," Amarjargal Ambaselmaa, head of the NCCD's surveillance department, said at a daily press conference.

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SYDNEY -- The Australian state of Victoria will start testing all hotel quarantine workers daily on Monday after another hotel quarantine worker tested positive to COVID-19 in less than a week.

Victorian health authorities announced minutes before midnight Sunday that the new case is a woman in her early 50s, who worked as an authorised officer at the Holiday Inn at Melbourne Airport.

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KIGALI -- About 150,000 families in the Rwandan capital city Kigali have received welfare support from the government since Jan. 18 when a COVID-19 lockdown came into force, an official said on Sunday.

The lockdown, which was only imposed in Kigali, is scheduled to be replaced with a curfew and other restrictions since Monday.

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BEIJING -- A member of the World Health Organization expert team tracing the origins of the novel coronavirus has said the Chinese side granted full access to all sites and personnel as requested -- a level of openness beyond expectation.

British zoologist Peter Daszak said on Friday that the team had submitted a deeply considered list of places and people to be included in their origin-tracing work and no objections were raised from the Chinese side, according to The Associated Press. Enditem

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