BEIJING, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) -- The following are the updates on the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

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BAKU -- No severe side effects have been registered throughout ongoing mass vaccination against COVID-19 in Azerbaijan, local medical experts has said, endorsing the safety of the China-developed CoronaVac vaccine.

"Since the inoculation program was launched in Azerbaijan (on Jan. 18), all health workers, including our staff, have been vaccinated," said Asiman Hasanov, executive director of the Baku Health Center, recently.

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TOKYO -- Tokyo on Monday reported 178 new daily COVID-19 infections, marking the first time the daily tally has dropped below the 200-mark since Nov. 24.

According to the Tokyo metropolitan government's preliminary figures, daily infections have also remained below 500 for 16 straight days.

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MOSCOW -- Russia registered 12,604 more COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, slightly down from 12,742 a day earlier, the country's COVID-19 response center said Monday.

The national tally has thus increased to 4,177,330 with 83,630 deaths and 3,726,388 recoveries, the center said.

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JAKARTA -- The COVID-19 cases in Indonesia rose by 10,180 within one day to 1,288,833, with the death toll adding by 202 to 34,691, the Health Ministry said on Monday.

According to the ministry, 9,918 more people were discharged from hospitals, bringing the total number of recovered patients to 1,096,994.

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BEIJING -- China will provide COVID-19 vaccine aid to 19 more African countries, and China's international cooperation on vaccines aims to make its jab a global public good, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said Monday.

Wang made the remarks when asked to comment on French President Emmanuel Macron's claim at the Munich Security Conference that Europe and the United States should immediately provide enough COVID-19 vaccine doses to Africa, otherwise African countries may choose to purchase vaccines from China and Russia, saying that "the strength of the West will be a concept, and not a reality."

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MANILA -- The Department of Health (DOH) of the Philippines reported on Monday 2,288 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the Southeast Asian country to 563,456.

The death toll climbed to 12,094 after six more patients died from the viral disease, the DOH said. It added 33 more patients recovered, raising the total number of recoveries to 522,874.

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HONG KONG -- Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Carrie Lam and some senior officials of the HKSAR government on Monday received their first shots of the COVID-19 vaccine ahead of a mass rollout starting later this week.

"I feel good and as you can see there is no adverse effect," Lam said at a press briefing shortly after getting the jab. Enditem

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