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BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Jun 14 (NNN-ANN) – Brunei reported one new confirmed COVID-19 case yesteday, bringing the national tally to 250.

According to Brunei’s Ministry of Health, the patient is a 42-year-old woman, who arrived in the country from Indonesia on May 30, and has no symptoms of infection.

Investigation and contact tracing confirmed no close contacts for the infection, as she was quarantined upon arrival in the country.

The new case is being treated and monitored at the National Isolation Centre with seven other active cases, who are all in stable condition.

With the detection of the new case, a total of 109 imported cases have been confirmed, since the last local infection case on May 6, 2020. Brunei has recorded 403 days without local COVID-19 cases.

There have been three deaths and 239 recovered patients reported so far in Brunei.– NNN-ANN

 

Source: NAM News Network

GENEVA, June 14 (NNN-TASS) — The number of confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus infection worldwide has surpassed 175 million increasing by more than 387,000 over the past 24 hours.

According to the data of the World Health Organization (WHO) published on Sunday, the number of fatalities has increased by more than 10,100 over 24 hours, surpassing 3.79 mln.

As of 16:01 Moscow time on June 13, the WHO received reports of 175,306,598 infections and 3,792,777 fatalities. The number of infections over 24 hours has increased by 387,209 while the fatalities rose by 10,158.

The WHO statistics takes into account only officially confirmed data on incidence and fatalities submitted by the states. The mark of 150 mln infections worldwide was surpassed on April 30. Thus, over less than a month and a half over 25 mln people were infected.

Over 48% of the infections reported to the WHO during the past 24 hours were in North and South America (187,256), followed by Southeast Asia (97,990), with Europe (42,288) in the third place.

According to the WHO, the majority of the infections were recorded in the US – 33,120,623, followed by India (29,439,989), Brazil (17,296,118), France (5,632,993), Turkey (5,325,435), Russia (5,208,687), the UK (4,558,498), Italy (4,243,482), Argentina (4,093,090), Spain (3,729,458), Germany (3,714,969) and Colombia (2,694,707). — NNN-TASS

 

 

Source: NAM News Network

South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Monday he is willing to provide COVID-19 vaccine aid to North Korea if the isolated country agrees.

Moon made the remarks during a joint news conference with Austrian counterpart Alexander Van der Bellen following a summit meeting in Vienna on Monday.

Moon told reporters if South Korea becomes a regional hub for COVID-19 vaccine production, “North Korea will surely become one of the countries for [vaccine]  cooperation. If North Korea agrees, we will actively proceed with vaccine aid to North Korea. The U.S. government is also actively supporting humanitarian aid to North Korea.”

At a joint news conference in Washington last month, U.S. President Joe Biden said he and Moon remained deeply concerned about the situation with North Korea. Biden said he would deploy a new special envoy to North Korea to help renew relations.

In his comments Monday, Moon said Biden’s announcement “sent a strong message that he wants talks with North Korea. We are hoping that North Korea responds to this.”

Moon also said that Biden expressed his support for inter-Korean talks and cooperation, which Moon said he believes could help lead to new talks between the U.S. and North Korea. According to the Associated Press, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has said in recent speeches that a combination of COVID-19, economic sanctions and natural disasters has the country facing one of its worst ever situations.

Moon and Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz met Monday with reporters following bilateral talks. The Korea Herald reported that Moon’s visit was the first to the country by a Korean leader since the two nations established formal ties in 1892. Moon arrived Sunday following the G-7 summit in Britain.

 

Source: Voice of America