China has recorded its highest daily increase of new coronavirus infections since last July after a recent cluster of cases in northern Hebei province. FILE - A worker performs a quality check in the packaging facility of Chinese vaccine maker Sinovac Biotech, developing an experimental COVID-19 vaccine, during a government-organized media tour in Beijing, China, Sept. 24, 2020. Indonesia has one of the region's worst COVID-19 outbreaks, having recorded 858,043 total infections, including 24,951 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Japan has recorded a total of 302,740 total infections, including over 4,000 deaths. The U.S. also leads in the overall number of COVID-19 infections with 22.8 million out of the world’s 91.5 million total cases, including 1.9 million deaths.

Source: Ethiopian News January 13, 2021 13:41 UTC