South Korea reported 13,358 new COVID-19 cases as of midnight Tuesday compared to 24 hours ago, raising the total number of infections to 18,188,200, the health authorities said Wednesday.
Over 400,000 child COVID-19 cases have been reported in the United States in the past 4 weeks, according to the latest report by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Children's Hospital Association.
Unidentified gunmen have killed scores of worshippers following an attack on a church in Nigeria's southwestern state of Ondo on Sunday, according to various sources.
The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa reached 11,664,758 as of Sunday evening, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said.
At least 49 people died and hundreds were injured after a fire sparked a huge chemical explosion at a shipping container depot in Bangladesh, officials said on Sunday.
The World Health Organization said Sunday that 780 laboratory-confirmed monkeypox cases had been reported to it from 27 non-endemic countries, while maintaining that the global risk level was moderate.
