At least five people were killed and 17 others injured in an explosion that rocked Ecuador's southwestern port city of Guayaquil on early Sunday morning.
South Korea recorded 62,078 new COVID-19 cases as of midnight Sunday compared to 24 hours ago, raising the total number of infections to 21,418,036, the health authorities said Monday.
Three bodies have been recovered and 17 others were feared killed Thursday after a boat ferrying them capsized in a river in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, police said.
The Philippines reported 4,533 new COVID-19 infections on Thursday, bringing the number of confirmed cases in the Southeast Asian country to 3,818,480.
Portugal has registered a total of 770 confirmed monkeypox cases as of Thursday since the first case reported in May, said the Portuguese Directorate-General for Health (DGS).
