WELLINGTON — New Zealand on Tuesday reported its first case of COVID-19 in the community in six months after a person tested positive in its largest city of Auckland.
The link between the case and the border or managed isolation is yet to be established, the Health Ministry said in a statement, adding the case is now being investigated.
The last reported community case of COVID-19 in New Zealand was in February.
Meanwhile, Brazil recorded 14,471 new confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the past 24 hours, along with 434 deaths from COVID-19, the Health Ministry said on Monday.
Brazil has registered more than 20.3 million cases since the pandemic began, while the official death toll has risen to 569,492, according to ministry data.
Also, the Japanese government is set to extend its "state of emergency" soft lockdown in regions including Tokyo to the middle of September as well as adding several other regions, the Sankei Shimbun daily reported on Monday.
The current state of emergency is due to expire on Aug. 31, but a continuing surge in coronavirus cases has spurred calls to extend it.
In Seoul, South Korea reported 1,373 new coronavirus cases along with 6 deaths during the past 24 hours, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency said today. Total confirmed COVID-19 cases in S.Korea stand at 226,854, and the death toll increased to 2,173.
In Mumbai, India reported 25,166 new coronavirus infections, taking its tally of infections to 32.25 million, health ministry data showed on Tuesday, Reuters reported. Deaths rose by 437, taking the to 432,079, the ministry said.
In Moscow, Russia reported 805 coronavirus-related deaths on Tuesday, close to a record high, amid a surge in cases that authorities blame on the infectious Delta variant, according to Reuters.
The government coronavirus taskforce also reported 20,958 new cases in the last 24 hours, including 2,006 in Moscow, pushing the infection tally in Russia to 6,642,559 since the pandemic began.
In Berlin, the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany increased by 3,912 to 3,827,051, data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases showed on Tuesday, Reuters reported. The reported death toll rose by 28 to 91,899, the tally showed. — Agencies
