BEIJING, May 6 (Xinhua) -- The following are the updates on the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

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PHNOM PENH -- Cambodia on Thursday confirmed 650 new local COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, pushing the national case tally to 17,621 so far, the Ministry of Health (MoH) said in a statement.

Four more fatalities were reported, raising the death toll to 114, the statement said, adding that 739 patients have recovered, bringing the total number of recoveries to 6,843.

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NEW DELHI -- India's COVID-19 tally surpassed 21 million on Thursday as 412,262 new cases were registered across the country in the past 24 hours, the health ministry said.

This is the second time this month that over 400,000 cases have been registered in a single day.

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ULAN BATOR -- Mongolia has recorded 12 new COVID-19-related deaths in the last 24 hours, the first double-digit increase since the pandemic hit the country, the National Center for Communicable Diseases (NCCD) said Thursday.

The nationwide death toll stands at 153, according to the NCCD. Meanwhile, 940 more locally transmitted COVID-19 cases and 1,601 recoveries were reported across the country in this period, bringing the respective national tallies to 42,464 and 27,242.

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ADDIS ABABA -- Ethiopia registered 785 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, taking the nationwide tally to 260,139 as of Wednesday evening, the country's Ministry of Health said.

The ministry said 23 new deaths from the coronavirus were reported across the country during the same period, bringing the national death toll to 3,795.

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MALE -- The Maldives' Health Emergency Operation Center (HEOC) has declared that the country is experiencing the fourth wave of COVID-19 infections as daily infections broke the local record for four consecutive days, local media reported on Thursday.

HEOC member Mohammed Ali on Wednesday said that a recent surge in infections has increased the chances for a spread of new variants. Meanwhile, the Health Protection Agency (HPA) data showed that the record for new daily cases was broken for the fourth day.

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RIO DE JANEIRO -- Brazil registered 2,811 more deaths from COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, raising the country's death toll to 414,399, the Ministry of Health reported Wednesday.

Meanwhile, tests detected 73,295 new COVID-19 cases, taking the national tally to 14,930,183. Enditem

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