A medical worker of a private clinic prepares to collect swab samples for COVID-19 testing in Moscow, Russia, on April 17, 2020. (Sputnik via Xinhua)
- Another 888 COVID-19 patients die in UK hospitals
- Sudan reports 30 new COVID-19 cases as capital enters full curfew
- Ukraine reports 400 new COVID-19 cases, total tops 5,000
- Lebanon's COVID-19 infections rise to 672
- India's COVID-19 death toll rises to 488
- Nearly 100 Cuban health workers test positive
- 99-year-old war veteran raises over 21 mln pounds for Britain's frontline health workers
BEIJING, April 18 (Xinhua) -- The following are the updates on the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
People walk past a closed shop in Hackney of London, Britain, April 17, 2020. (Photo by Tim Ireland/Xinhua)
LONDON -- Another 888 people who tested positive for COVID-19 have died in hospitals in Britain as of Friday afternoon, bringing the total number of coronavirus-related deaths to 15,464, the Department of Health and Social Care said Saturday.
As of Saturday morning, 114,217 people have tested positive for the virus, marking a daily increase of 5,526, said the department.
A traffic police officer wearing a face mask controls traffic at a roundabout in Juba, capital of South Sudan, April 8, 2020. (Xinhua/Denis Elamu)
KHARTOUM -- Sudan's capital Khartoum on Saturday entered into full curfew for three weeks while 30 new COVID-19 cases were confirmed, the highest in a single day since the virus outbreak in the country.
"Epidemiological reports of the Federal Ministry of Health have confirmed 30 new cases of infection with the coronavirus nationwide, in addition to four new deaths," said Sudan's health ministry in a statement on Saturday.
It said that 27 of the new cases had been registered in Khartoum State, two in White Nile State and one in Gezira State.
The empty Independence Square is seen amid COVID-19 outbreak in Kiev, capital of Ukraine, March 31, 2020. (Photo by Sergey Starostenko/Xinhua)
KIEV -- Ukraine's Health Ministry reported on Saturday that 444 people have tested positive for COVID-19 in the country over the last 24 hours, bringing its total tally to 5,106.
As of Saturday, Ukraine's COVID-19 fatalities have reached 133, while 275 patients have recovered.
A woman wearing a face mask walks on a street in Beirut, Lebanon, on April 17, 2020. (Photo by Bilal Jawich/Xinhua)
BEIRUT -- Lebanon's number of COVID-19 infections increased on Saturday by four cases to 672 while death toll remained at 21, the National News Agency reported.
The health ministry reported that there were 94 patients who have recovered from the virus so far.
A man sits inside a mosquito net at his temporary shelter set up on a rickshaw during the lockdown due to COVID-19, in New Delhi, India, April 17, 2020. (Xinhua/Javed Dar)
NEW DELHI -- India's federal health ministry Saturday evening said the death toll due to COVID-19 in the country rose to 488 and the total number of confirmed cases reached 14,792.
"As on 5:00 p.m. (local time), today 488 deaths related to novel coronavirus have been recorded in the country," read the information released by the ministry.
A community doctor visits a family to check their health conditions in Havana, Cuba, March 31, 2020. (Xinhua/Zhu Wanjun)
HAVANA -- Close to 100 health professionals have tested positive for COVID-19 in Cuba, the country's Minister of Public Health Jose Angel Portal Miranda said on Friday.
Among Cuban health workers infected with the virus, there are 47 doctors, 30 nurses, four health technicians, five medical students as well as 11 people from other fields of medicine, he said on state TV.
Tom Moore(C), a retired civil servant and Second World War veteran, talks with members of the 1st Battalion, the Yorkshire Regiment, after completing his final lap at his garden in Bedfordshire, Britain, on April 16, 2020. (Photo by Frances Haycock/MOD/Handout via Xinhua)
LONDON -- A 99-year-old war veteran has raised more than 21 million pounds (about 26 million U.S. dollars) for the National Health Service (NHS) by completing 100 laps of his garden.
With the aid of a walking frame, Tom Moore, a retired civil servant and Second World War veteran, had planned to do 100 laps of his garden in Bedfordshire, England, before his 100th birthday on April 30.
He finished the challenge Thursday morning. As of early Saturday, more than 1 million people have donated to his fundraising page.■
