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Victoria state, which reported a record 1,488 new coronavirus cases on Saturday, on Friday ordered about 1 million employees across industries to receive at least one dose of a COVID vaccine by Oct. 15 to keep working.
While it took just over a year for the COVID-19 death toll to hit 2.5 million, the next 2.5 million deaths were recorded in just under eight months, according to a Reuters analysis.
More than 235,434,191 people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus globally as deaths related to COVID-19 near 5 million on Saturday,
The Ministry stressed in a statement on Monday that its aim to continue expanding the scope of testing nationwide to facilitate the early detection of coronavirus cases and carry out the necessary treatment.
Infections have been reported in more than 210 countries and territories since the first cases were identified in December 2019.
Li Qiang, an official in the city, the capital of central Hubei province, told a news briefing that "To ensure that everyone in the city is safe, city-wide nucleic acid testing will be quickly launched for all people to fully screen out positive results and asymptomatic infections."
The country has registered 27,176 cases, pushing the total COVID-19 cases so far to 3,33,16,755, while 284 new fatalities were recorded in the last 24 hours on Wednesday.
Umar said that although the situation was comparatively better now, the danger had not subsided and stressed the need for accelerating the vaccination process in the country. He warned that the areas with low percentage of vaccination would again be put under lockdown.
