Live COVID-19 updates: India's COVID-19 tally rises to 11,244,786, daily cases on rise
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BEIJING, March 9 (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 11,244,786 on Tuesday as 15,388 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 157,930 as 77 COVID-19 patients died since Monday morning.
There are still 187,462 active cases in the country, while 10,899,394 people have been discharged from hospitals after medical treatment. There was a decrease of 1,285 active cases during the previous 24 hours, while the northern state of Punjab saw an increase of 523 cases.
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WELLINGTON -- New Zealand reported four new cases of COVID-19 in managed isolation on Tuesday with zero new cases in the community.
The four new imported cases came from India and Britain, and have remained in managed isolation facilities in Auckland, according to the Ministry of Health.
One of the new cases is historical and deemed not infectious, said a ministry statement.
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ULAN BATOR -- Mongolia registered 36 new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, the National Center for Communicable Diseases (NCCD) said Tuesday.
Among the new cases, 33 were detected in the country's capital Ulan Bator, and the remaining three were reported in the central province of Tuv, the center said.
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PHNOM PENH -- Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen late on Monday ordered the temporary closure of state's civil institutions for at least one week as COVID-19 cases continue to rise.
But all armed forces and healthcare workers still work as usual.
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SYDNEY -- Papua New Guinea (PNG) health authorities were scrambling to contain a surge of COVID-19 infections, with official case numbers nearly doubling in the past five weeks.
Official figures released Monday showed 87 new cases of COVID-19 were recorded the day before, taking the country's total cases to 1,670 and 16 known deaths. Enditem
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