1. South Korea added 353-thousand 9-hundred 80 new daily COVID-19 infections on Tuesday. The number of deaths stands at 3-hundred 84 on the same day.

2. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday stressed holding a meeting with the Russian president in any form to end the war.

3. U.S FED chairman Jerome Powell said Monday that the central bank may take more aggressive actions to curb the soaring inflation.