BEIJING, May 5 -- The following are the updates on the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. - - - - WELLINGTON -- New Zealand announced Tuesday that the State of National Emergency to support the COVID-19 response will be extended for a sixth time, for a further seven days. The initial declaration was made on March 25, and the seven-day declaration can be extended as many times as necessary. It does not change the COVID-19 Alert Level. "On the advice of the Director of Civil Defence Emergency Management and after consultation with the prime minister, I consider the State of National Emergency should remain in place to support the COVID-19 response," Minister of Civil Defence Peeni Henare said. - - - - TRIPOLI -- The National Center for Disease Control of Libya on Monday reported one COVID-19 recovery, bringing the total number of recoveries in the country to 23. The center said in a statement that it tested 136 suspected samples, all of which were negative. "WHO urges the health authorities in Libya to remain vigilant in the face of the serious health threat posed by COVID-19 in the country," the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a statement on Sunday. - - - - HANOI -- As many as 11 more patients in Vietnam have recovered from COVID-19, bringing the total cured patients in the country to 232, according to its Ministry of Health on Tuesday. The cured cases, all treated at the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases in the capital of Hanoi, include an 88-year-old female who was in a critical condition and two patients who had tested positive again after the previous recovery, Vietnam News Agency reported Tuesday. All the 11 patients will be quarantined for another 14 days after being discharged from hospital, the news agency reported. - - - - NEW DELHI -- India's federal health ministry Tuesday morning said 179 new deaths due to COVID-19, besides fresh 3,597 positive cases, were reported since last evening in the country, taking the number of deaths to 1,568 and total cases to 46,433. "As on 8:00 a.m. (local time) Tuesday, 1,568 deaths related to novel coronavirus have been recorded in the country," the ministry's statement said. On Monday evening the number of COVID-19 cases in the country was 42,836 and the death toll was 1,389. - - - - ABUJA -- Nigerian health authorities on Monday confirmed 245 new cases of COVID-19, the highest single-day increase, taking the tally in the most populous African country to 2,802. The Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC), which gave the update in a statement, reported six new deaths from the pandemic, bringing the total number of fatal cases to 93. - - - - BERLIN -- Germany's COVID-19 cases rose by 685 within one day to 163,860, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) announced on Tuesday. The death toll in the country increased by 139 to 6,831, it said. - - - - WASHINGTON -- The COVID-19 death toll in the United States rose by 1,015 in the past 24 hours, the lowest one-day figure in a month, data compiled by Johns Hopkins University showed on Monday. The Baltimore-based university had registered more than 1.17 million cases in the country as of 0030 GMT Tuesday, with 68,689 deaths. - - - - CAPE TOWN -- The total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in South Africa was 7,220 as of Monday, up by 437 from the previous day, said Health Minister Zweli Mkhize. "Regrettably, we report seven more COVID-19 related deaths -- six from Western Cape and one from KwaZulu-Natal," which brought to 138 the total deaths nationwide, Mkhize said. - - - - MEXICO CITY -- Mexico reported 1,434 new COVID-19 cases and 117 more deaths during the last 24 hours, bringing the total in the country to 24,905 cases and 2,271 deaths, the country's health ministry said on Monday. Hugo Lopez-Gatell, Mexico's deputy health minister, said last week that the peak of the COVID-19 epidemic in Mexico is expected on May 6 and there are 191 more suspected COVID-19 fatalities awaiting verification. - - - - BEIJING -- Chinese health authority said Tuesday that no new domestically transmitted cases of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) were reported on the Chinese mainland for Monday. One confirmed case arriving from overseas was reported in Shanghai Monday, the National Health Commission said in its daily report Tuesday. Xinhua

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