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The Chinese central authorities support the Hong Kong police to thoroughly investigate the Civil Human Rights Front (CHRF) despite the organization had announced its disbandment on Sunday, They said that it is an inevitable result for the illegal organization to collapse, as it has been acting against the government and damaging Hong Kong's social interests for years.

Hong Kong's Civil Human Rights Front (CHRF), the biggest opposition alliance in the city, announced in a statement that it will disband following a unanimous resolution, starting Sunday.

Hong Kong police said on Sunday that they are actively taking follow-up action on disbanded anti-China group Civil Human Rights Front's violation of the Societies Ordinance.

The Civil Human Rights Front, an anti-China group in Hong Kong, announced Sunday its dissolution in a statement after its members recently agreed unanimously on the decision to disband.

The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) on Sunday said that Taiwan recorded nine new cases of COVID-19, and that it was likely the nationwide Level 2 COVID-19 alert would be extended after it expires on Aug. 23.

A total of 249,600 doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine were delivered to Taiwan Sunday, the second batch the country received from the manufacturer in August.

Zhengzhou, capital of Central China's Henan Province, which is just recovering from historically disastrous floods, will provide online registration and teaching for local students for the upcoming semester as the city has a total of 138 confirmed cases and one silent carrier in the recent outbreak of COVID-19.

Twelve Party members and officials in Yangzhou, East China's Jiangsu Province were punished for negligence of their duties when battling the resurgence of the COVID-19 epidemic as the number of infections in the city totaled 542 as of Sunday.

The number of deaths from the coronavirus pandemic in Iran increased to 97,828 with 620 more Iranians killed by the deadly disease over the past 24 hours, Iran's Health Ministry announced on Sunday.

The head of Iran's Red Crescent Society said on Sunday that importing coronavirus vaccine has been facilitated and the one million doses imported today were delivered to the Ministry of Health .

The seven-day average of COVID-19 deaths reached 645 in the United States on Friday, almost doubling in two weeks to reach the highest point since May, according to data compiled by the Johns Hopkins University.

The Chinese mainland on Saturday reported 24 new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Sunday.

Central China's Henan Province reported five new locally transmitted confirmed COVID-19 cases, eight new asymptomatic carriers on Saturday, the provincial health commission said Sunday.

Over 1.84 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines had been administered in China by Friday, the National Health Commission said Saturday.

Hong Kong's Center for Health Protection (CHP) reported two new imported cases of COVID-19 on Saturday, taking the tally of total confirmed cases to 12,032.

The number of children hospitalized across the US with COVID-19 has hit a record high of just over 1,900 as hospitals in southern states were stretched to capacity fighting outbreaks caused by the highly transmissible Delta variant.

The Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) says it has delivered the 14th consignment of imported COVID-19 vaccines to the Health Ministry.

All England's 16- and-17-year-olds will be eligible to receive a first dose of a COVID vaccine by August 23, the National Health Service announced Sunday.

Iranian state media says authorities will impose a six-day "general lockdown" in cities across the country beginning on August 16.

Israel has expanded its vaccine campaign to give booster shots against COVID-19 to anyone over 50. To that end, the country is opening all night vaccination sites to encourage more people to get vaccinated. All of this comes as the number of cases in Israel continues to rise.