Live COVID-19 updates: Tunisia reports 1,997 new COVID-19 cases, 372,221 in total

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BEIJING, June 16 (Xinhua) -- The following are the updates on the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

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TUNIS -- Tunisian Health Ministry on Tuesday reported 1,997 new COVID-19 cases, raising the total number of infections in the country to 372,221.

The death toll from the virus rose by 89 to 13,656 in Tunisia, while the total number of recoveries reached 324,846, the ministry said in a statement.

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MEXICO CITY -- Mexico is registering a rebound in COVID-19 infections in six of its 32 states after 20 weeks of a national downward trend, Undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion Hugo Lopez-Gatell said on Tuesday.

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NEW YORK -- The United States reached the grim milestone of 600,000 coronavirus deaths on Tuesday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.

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KUWAIT CITY -- Kuwait registered on Tuesday 1,487 new COVID-19 cases, raising the total infections in the country to 331,013, the Kuwaiti Health Ministry reported.

The ministry also announced three more fatalities, taking the death toll in Kuwait to 1,831, while the tally of recoveries rose by 1,291 to 312,850.

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HAVANA -- Cuba registered a daily record of 1,537 COVID-19 infections in the past 24 hours on Tuesday, for a cumulative total of 160,594 cases, the Ministry of Public Health said.

In addition, there were another eight deaths recorded in the day, to total 1,106, according to the ministry's daily report. Enditem

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