HONG KONG, May 18 (NNN-XINHUA) – The number of COVID-19 cases continued to rise in the Asia-Pacific region, as Bangladesh saw a new daily high of 1,273, and India’s cases crossed the 90,000 mark.
Nasima Sultana, a senior Bangladesh Health Ministry official, told an online media briefing that, 1,273 new COVID-19 cases and 14 deaths were reported in the last 24 hours across the country, bringing the national total to 22,268 while fatalities stood at 328.
India’s federal health ministry, reported Sunday, 120 new deaths from COVID-19, and 4,987 more positive cases, taking the number of deaths to 2,872 and total cases to 90,927.
This was the highest one-day spike in the country.– NNN-XINHUA
