
According to the ministry, the death toll has risen by 643 to 589,240 people within the same period of time.
More than 20.17 million patients have recovered since the start of the outbreak.
A day earlier, the country confirmed 14,780 new coronavirus cases, with 800 fatalities.
Brazil comes second in terms of the death toll following the United States with more than 669,000 fatalities, and third in terms of the number of confirmed cases after the US and India.
The World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic on March 11, 2020. To date, more than 226.96 million people have been infected with the coronavirus worldwide, with over 4.66 million fatalities, according to Johns Hopkins University.
The study used 309 plasma samples of the people who had recovered from COVID-19, including those who had been fully immunized with vaccines by AstraZeneca, Sinopharm, or Sputnik V, the newspaper reported on Wednesday.
The highest antibody titers against the Delta strain were identified in those who had been vaccinated with Sputnik V and had had COVID-19 before.
"Estonia recognises those vaccines that are recognised by the home country [of the traveller]", the authority said in response to Tallinn University when asked what other vaccines apart from those in Estonia's portfolio are acceptable in the country.
Australia's state of New South Wales allows no more than 10 close relatives at funerals due to a spike in cases of COVID-19.
According to the police, officers from four stations, as well as the riot squad, were deployed on Wednesday after reports of about 80 to 100 people at Rookwood Cemetery, where three funerals were taking place.
The vaccination agencies are currently identifying those eligible for third doses.
"The NHS vaccination programme will now invite eligible people, who had their second COVID jab at least six months ago, for a top-up", the authority said in a statement.
"With the cutback, COVAX is now expected to deliver 470 million doses to Africa this year. These will be enough to vaccinate just 17% of the population, far below the 40% target", the report said.
A study conducted by the government-affiliated Centre for Sociological Research from September 1-13 found that 47.7% of those sampled wanted immunisation to be obligatory for all.
Slightly over a quarter of 3,780 respondents agreed that no one should be forced to receive the vaccine, while 21.8% said it depended on the case.
"Turkey accepts only certificates of inoculation [with vaccines] approved by the WHO or our country for emergency use. [Among the Russian vaccines] only Sputnik V was approved in Turkey", a health ministry spokesperson said.
"At the Vietnamese side's initiative, a phone conversation was held ... Nguyen Xuan Phuc thanked for Russia's assistance in the fight against the spreading of the coronavirus infection and expressed interest in increasing deliveries of Russian vaccines and launching Sputnik V production in Vietnam", an official statement read.
The death toll from the disease has reached 443,928 people, with 431 new fatalities being recorded over the past day.
More than 32.56 million people have recovered in India since the start of the outbreak.
A day earlier, the country confirmed 27,176 new coronavirus cases, with 284 fatalities.
