BEIJING, June 16 (Xinhua) -- The following are the updates on the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
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BRUSSELS -- A number of European countries on Monday started exiting border controls cautiously at different paces while striving to reduce tourism fallout and pushing vaccine development.
According to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Europe has registered 2,187,307 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 182,976 deaths as of 10:00 a.m. CET (0800 GMT) on June 15.
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WASHINGTON -- COVID-19 has led to much more hospitalizations and deaths among those with reported underlying health conditions, according to a new report of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Monday.
The report analyzed demographic characteristics, underlying health conditions, symptoms, and outcomes among 1,320,488 laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 cases individually reported to CDC from Jan. 22 to May 30.
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SANTIAGO -- Chile on Monday reported 179,436 people have tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and 3,362 people have died of the disease.
In the past 24 hours ending 9 p.m. local time Sunday (0100 GMT Monday), 5,143 new cases of infection were detected and 39 more patients died.
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ROME -- Vittorio Colao, head of Italy reconstruction task force, said Monday that he would recommend an economic plan resting on three main pillars: innovation, environmental sustainability, and inclusion.
Colao said the strategy his task force recommends for relaunching the Italian economy in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic includes support for small- and medium-sized businesses as well as for the unemployed, reform of the way government contracts are awarded, and the inclusion of additional aid for export-driven companies.
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CAIRO -- Egypt reported on Monday its highest single-day COVID-19 deaths with 97 fatalities, taking the death toll in the North African country to 1,672, said the Egyptian Health Ministry.
According to the ministry's spokesman Khaled Megahed, 1,691 new COVID-19 infections have also been registered in the past 24 hours, bringing the total confirmed cases to 46,289.
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BAGHDAD -- The Iraqi Health Ministry on Monday recorded 1,106 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections to 21,315 in the country.
It said that 45 more people died from the coronavirus during the day, bringing the death toll to 652, while 9,271 patients have recovered.
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ADDIS ABABA -- The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases across the African continent surpassed 242,105 as of Monday afternoon, the Africa Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said.
The Africa CDC in its latest update said the death toll from the pandemic also rose to 6,464 as of Monday afternoon, according to the Africa CDC.
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RAMALLAH -- Palestine on Monday confirmed 10 new cases of COVID-19 in the West Bank, bringing the total number in the Palestinian territories to 686.
One of the new cases was detected in Dar Salah town in the Bethlehem district, the first case since the district was declared free of coronavirus on May 10, Health Minister Mai al-Kaila said in a press statement.
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NAIROBI -- Kenya's Ministry of Health on Monday confirmed 133 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the national tally of infections to 3,727.
Mutahi Kagwe, cabinet secretary in the Ministry of Health, told journalists that the new cases were detected from 3,365 samples which were tested in the last 24 hours.
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