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The Chinese mainland on Tuesday reported 75 newly confirmed COVID-19 cases, including 55 locally transmitted and 20 arriving from outside the mainland.
Of the locally transmitted cases, 29 were reported in Heilongjiang, 14 in Jilin, seven in Hebei, four in Beijing and one in Shanghai.
The National Health Commission says one suspected case was newly reported in Shaanxi. No deaths related to the disease were reported on Tuesday.
Data shows that more than 100 million people have now tested positive for the coronavirus globally.
The Johns Hopkins University data also shows more than 2.1 million people have died because of COVID-19.
The United States remains1 the worst-hit country, with more than 25 million cases and over 423,000 deaths.
India has the second-largest number of cases with more than 10 million people who have tested positive for the virus.
With more than 8.8 million cases, Brazil is third overall, but has the second highest number of deaths at 217,000.
The UK reported more than 1,600 new deaths on Tuesday, becoming the first European country and the fifth globally to surpass 100,000 COVID-19 deaths.
England's Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty says the infection rate remains very high in the UK despite a lockdown that's been in place since January 5th.
"The rates are just about holding with the new variant2, with what everybody is doing. Our big worry was that we'd need more to hold it. It's going to be much harder because this new variant and I think we have to be realistic about that."
Official data shows that more than 3.6 million people have tested positive for the coronavirus in the UK since the pandemic started.
So far, more than 6.8 million people have received their first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine3, with a target of reaching 15 million people by the middle of next month.
The International Monetary4 Fund has projected that the global economy will grow by 5.5 percent this year, 0.3 percentage points above the October forecast.
IMF Chief Economist5 Gita Gopinath says the upgrade for 2021 reflects the positive effects of the onset6 of vaccinations7 in some countries, as well as additional policy support at the end of last year in economies such as the United States and Japan.
She says China has been very successful in containing the pandemic and that has played a very important role to bring back economic activity.
This year, China is expected to grow by 8.1 percent, and to expand 5.6 percent next year.
Meanwhile, the global economy is projected to grow 4.2 percent in 2022.
The U.S. Senate on Tuesday voted to confirm President Joe Biden's nomination8 of Antony Blinken to serve as the next U.S. secretary of state.
The Senate confirmed his nomination by a vote of 78-22, making him the 71st U.S. secretary of state.
The 58-year-old served as deputy national security advisor9 and deputy secretary of state under former President Barack Obama.
U.S. President Joe Biden and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Tuesday discussed arms control and other issues during their first telephone conversation.
The White House says Biden and Putin discussed their willingness to extend the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty for five years, agreeing to have their teams work urgently to complete the extension by Feb. 5.
French President Emmanuel Macron has called for a future economy that addresses innovation, the principles of humanity and climate challenges.
Macron was addressing the virtual meeting of the World Economic Forum10 on Tuesday.
He says future competitiveness must be built with an economy that is resilient to shock, and also integrates health and social inequalities.
U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed a memorandum11 condemning12 the surge of anti-Asian racism13 in the country during the COVID-19 pandemic, while directing the Department of Justice to make more concerted efforts to address hate crimes and harassment14 against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
The memorandum says that during the COVID-19 pandemic, inflammatory and xenophobic rhetoric15 has put Asian American and Pacific Islander persons, families, communities, and businesses at risk.
It says the Federal Government must recognize that it has played a role in furthering these xenophobic sentiments through the actions of political leaders, including references to the COVID-19 pandemic by the geographic16 location of its alleged17 origin.
中国大陆周二报告了75例新冠肺炎新增病例，其中55例为本土传播病例，20例为输入病例。
在本地传播病例中，黑龙江29例，吉林14例，河北7例，北京4例，上海1例。
国家卫健委表示，陕西新增一例疑似病例。周二未报告相关死亡病例。
数据显示，目前全球有超过1亿人冠状病毒检测呈阳性。
约翰霍普金斯大学的数据还显示，新冠肺炎相关死亡病例超过210万例。
美国仍是疫情最严重的国家，有超过2500万例病例，超过42.3万例死亡病例。
印度的病例数居全球第二位，病毒检测呈阳性者超过1000万人。
巴西的病例数超过880万，位居第三，但其死亡人数有21.7万人，为全球死亡病例第二高的国家。
周二，英国报告新增死亡病例超过1600例，成为欧洲首个、全球第五个新冠肺炎死亡病例突破10万例的国家。
英国首席医疗官克里斯·惠蒂表示，尽管英国自1月5日开始实施封锁，但感染率仍居高不下。
“在大家都做防护的情况下，有着新变种，感染率是维持住了。我们最担心的是，我们需要采取更多措施来维持住感染率。因为新变种，维持感染率会更难，我想我们必须要现实一点。”
官方数据显示，自疫情开始以来，英国已有360多万人在冠状病毒检测中吓死阳性。
截至目前，已有680多万人接种了首剂新冠肺炎疫苗，目标是接种人群在下月中旬达到1500万。
国际货币基金组织预计，今年全球经济将增长5.5%，比10月份的预测高出0.3个百分点。
国际货币基金组织首席经济学家吉塔·戈皮纳特表示，上调2021个的预测反映了一些国家启动疫苗接种的积极影响，以及去年年底美国和日本等经济体的额外政策支持。
她表示，中国在遏制疫情方面非常成功，这对恢复经济活动起到了非常重要的作用。
预计今年中国经济将增长8.1%，明年将增长5.6%。
同时，预计2022年全球经济将增长4.2%。
美国参议院周二投票批准了乔·拜登总统对安东尼·布林肯出任下一任美国国务卿的提名。
参议院以78票赞成、22票反对的结果确认了他的提名，布林肯将成为美国第71任国务卿。
现年58岁的布林肯曾在前总统巴拉克·奥巴马执政时期担任国家安全副顾问和副国务卿。
周二，美国总统乔·拜登和俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京进行首次通话，讨论了军备控制等问题。
白宫表示，拜登和普京讨论了将《新削减战略武器条约》延长5年的意愿，同意让各自团队紧急开展工作，在2月5日前完成延期。
法国总统埃马纽埃尔·马克龙呼吁，未来经济应注重创新、人道主义原则和气候挑战。
马克龙周二在世界经济论坛虚拟会议上发表了讲话。
他表示，未来的竞争力必须建立在经济能够抵御冲击的基础上，同时还要综合考虑健康和社会不平等等问题。
美国总统乔·拜登周二签署了一份备忘录，谴责疫情期间国内反亚裔种族主义的激增，同时指示司法部做出更多协调努力，解决针对亚裔美国人和太平洋岛民的仇恨犯罪和骚扰问题。
备忘录称，疫情期间，煽动和排外言论使亚裔美国人和太平洋岛国居民、家庭、社区和企业面临风险。
备忘录表示，联邦政府必须认识到，通过政治领导人的行动，包括以所谓的起源地的地理位置提及新冠肺炎疫情等，在助长这些仇外情绪方面发挥了作用。
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