COVID-19: 26 die; 1,719 infected

In the latest Development, twenty-six people have died from coronavirus in the past 24 hours taking the death toll to be 8,597.

1,719 new cases were detected with infected cases amount to 560,887.

Another 1,352 people recovered from COVID-19 through treatment at home and in-hospital care in the same period, bringing the tally of recoveries to 514,479.

Since the start of the pandemic, over 120.26 million people have been infected by the novel coronavirus and 2.66 million have died, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.