BEIJING, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- The following are the updates on the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

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TOKYO -- Japan on Tuesday confirmed 3,599 new daily COVID-19 infections, bringing the country's cumulative total to 227,375 cases, not including those related to a cruise ship quarantined near Tokyo earlier this year.

The latest rise in cases has brought the national death toll from the pneumonia-causing virus to a total of 3,396, as the country continues to grapple with a resurgence of cases since November and faces a particularly fierce cold snap in the coming days, with up to one meter of snow and heavy winds expected in some eastern coastal regions.

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BEIJING -- Beijing added one medium-risk COVID-19 area starting from Tuesday, the Beijing municipal health commission said.

Donghaihong Village, Nanfaxin Township in Shunyi District was identified as a medium-risk area for COVID-19 by the municipal center for disease control and prevention.

Currently, Beijing has a total of four medium-risk COVID-19 areas.

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TEHRAN -- Iranian health authorities announced on Tuesday 6,108 new COVID-19 infections, raising the overall count in the country to 1,212,481, official news agency IRNA reported.

Of the newly infected in the past 24 hours, 815 required hospitalization, the spokeswoman for Iran's Ministry of Health and Medical Education Sima Sadat Lari said at her daily briefing.

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DHAKA -- Bangladesh reported 1,181 new COVID-19 cases and 30 new deaths on Tuesday, making the tally at 511,261 and death toll at 7,509, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said.

The official data showed that 14,588 samples were tested in the last 24 hours across Bangladesh.

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HANOI -- Vietnam reported three new cases of COVID-19 infection on Tuesday, bringing its total confirmed cases to 1,454 with 35 deaths from the disease so far, according to its Ministry of Health.

Among the new cases who are all Vietnamese citizens, two illegally crossed the border into Vietnam from Myanmar. The other case is an 8-year-old girl who recently returned to the country.

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KABUL -- A total of 183 new COVID-19 positive cases have been registered in Afghanistan over the past 24 hours, bringing the number of patients infected with the disease to 52,330 in the country, the Public Health Ministry said on Tuesday.

According to the ministry, 10 patients have died due to the disease over the period totaling the number of COVID-19 related deaths to 2,189 since the outbreak of the virus in February in Afghanistan.

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MOSCOW -- Russia registered 27,002 new coronavirus cases over the past 24 hours, the country's COVID-19 response center said Tuesday.

Russia's total number of confirmed coronavirus cases now stands at 3,105,037.

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JAKARTA -- The COVID-19 cases in Indonesia rose by 7,903 within one day to 727,122, with the death toll adding by 251 to 21,703, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday.

According to the ministry, 6,805 more people were discharged from hospitals, bringing the total number of recovered patients to 596,783.

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BERLIN -- The new coronavirus variant discovered in Britain earlier this month seems to have been present in Germany since November, German national daily Die Welt said Monday.

Researchers at Hannover Medical School detected the new variant in samples of an elderly patient who contracted the virus around November and later died, the newspaper said. Enditem

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