The ministry said 43 of the infected people were Japanese, and the nationalities of the others were still to be confirmed.
The ministry has also warned of the increased risks of floods in medium and small-sized rivers, waterlogging in urban areas and mountain torrents in the affected areas, especially in those where water has accumulated because of previous downpours.
The measures are part of an ongoing campaign to improve behavior, toughen sanctions on wrongdoers and enhance public security and order.
The measures could win approval in the Democratic-controlled House next year but will face opposition from the Republican-controlled Senate and the White House, where President Donald Trump has promised to "protect the Second Amendment." Still, gun control advocates believe they have the political momentum to make guns a central issue next year.
The ministry estimated that the e-commerce market will reach 900 billion tenge by the end of 2020, and 1.9 trillion tenge by 2022, accounting for about 13 percent of the country's retail business, compared with 2.9 percent for 2019.
The mayor's new green deal plan also calls for powering all of the city's operations with clean electricity sources like Canadian hydropower, instituting mandatory organic recycling, congestion tolls on traffic and phasing-out city purchases of single-use plastic food ware and processed meat, according to a press release handed out at de Blasio's news conference.
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The ministry attributed the strong growth to a low comparison base last year.
The meeting will focus on global economic growth, including trade and investment, financial cooperation, connectivity, and the blue economy.
The mass protests in 2014 paralyzed the traffic of the city's central business districts for nearly three months. Since June 2019, citywide violence and vandalism by radical anti-government protesters have rocked Hong Kong.
The meeting also called for full appreciation of the complexity and severity of the current situation and close monitoring of the evolving dynamics of the global COVID-19 and economic situations.