South Korea reported 35,117 new COVID-19 cases as of midnight Monday compared to 24 hours ago, raising the total number of infections to 17,830,429, the health authorities said Tuesday.
North Korea's ruling Workers' Party newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, has reported about 269,500 new fever cases and six deaths in the 24 hours through 6 P.M. on Monday.
Four people lost their lives and two others sustained injuries as a landslide hit a village in Afghanistan's northern Badakhshan province on Monday, provincial administration official Mawlawi Mohammad Akram Akbari said Tuesday.
The Chinese mainland Sunday reported 140 locally-transmitted confirmed COVID-19 cases, of which 69 were in Shanghai, according to the National Health Commission's report Monday.
At least 27 people were killed and 12 others suffered burn injuries after a massive fire broke out in a three-storey commercial building in the Indian capital, senior police officer Sameer Sharma said Saturday.
The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa reached 11,555,033 as of Sunday evening, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said.