The Brazilian government is planning to lift the public health emergency measures that were implemented at the start of the global COVID-19 pandemic two years ago.
The Chinese mainland Sunday reported 2,723 locally-transmitted confirmed COVID-19 cases, of which 2,417 were in Shanghai, according to the National Health Commission's Monday report.
India's COVID-19 tally rose to 43,044,280 on Monday, with 2,183 new cases registered during the past 24 hours across the country, showed the federal health ministry's latest data.
A total of 443 people have died as a result of rains in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal Province last week while 63 persons were missing, a local official said on Sunday.
The total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases reported in Africa reached 11,378,423 as of Sunday evening, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said.
South Korea recorded 205,333 new COVID-19 cases as of midnight Thursday compared to 24 hours ago, raising the total number of infections to 14,983,694, the health authorities said Friday.
