India's COVID-19 tally rose to 10,667,736 on Monday, as 13,203 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours, according to the latest data from the federal health ministry.
New Zealand's first case of coronavirus in the community for more than two months has been identified as the South African variant and was likely contracted in hotel quarantine, health minister Chris Hipkins said Monday.
UNESCO says 5.5 months, or about two-thirds, of an academic year were lost on average worldwide due to school closures during the coronavirus pandemic.
Eight people were injured and three others missing in an explosion of a natural gas pipe on Monday in Dalian, a port city in northeast China's Liaoning Province, local authorities said.
