HONG KONG, June 13 (NNN-XINHUA) – India and Bangladesh saw record daily spikes of COVID-19 cases on Friday, as some Asia Pacific countries, like Japan are coping with the economic woe of the pandemic, by enacting a record supplementary budget.
India’s health ministry reported 396 new deaths, besides 10,956 new cases during the past 24 hours across the country, taking the number of deaths to 8,498 and total cases to 297,535.
This is the largest single day spike in the country, both in terms of new deaths and new cases. For the first time new cases reported in a single day surpassed 10,000.
At the same time, the total number of confirmed cases in Bangladesh exceeded 81,000, after a record 3,471 new cases detected, in the last 24 hours.
Japan’s parliament enacted a record 31.91 trillion yen (297 billion U.S. dollars) second supplementary budget, for the current fiscal year, aimed at further cushioning the economic blow delivered by the pandemic.
The record extra budget, approved by the upper house and enacted at a plenary session thereafter, Friday, will finance an additional package of 117 trillion yen (1.08 trillion U.S. dollars), with the latest spending plan aimed at continuing to provide fiscal support related to the virus crisis.
The number of COVID-19 cases in the Philippines rose to 24,787, after the Department of Health (DOH) reported 615 more infections.
The cases in Indonesia rose by 1,111 within one day to 36,406, with the death toll adding by 48 to 2,048, Health Ministry official, Achmad Yurianto, said, at a press conference.
Residents of Australia’s Northern Territory (NT) will be handed vouchers, in an attempt of the government to keep the tourism industry alive.
Under the 5.2-million-Australian dollar (3.5-million-U.S. dollar) scheme, announced by the NT government on Thursday, Territorians will receive 200 Australian dollars (136.8 U.S. dollars) vouchers, to be spent around the jurisdiction from July 1.
Thailand’s Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA), announced, the government approved to end the night curfew from June 15. “Ministers and health experts have all agreed that the 11:00 p.m. to 3:00 a.m. curfew will be lifted from next Monday (June 15), but the state of emergency in the country will continue,” said CCSA spokesman, Dr. Taweesin Visanuyothin.
South Korea reported 56 more cases, raising the total number of infections to 12,003. The daily caseload moved between 30 and 60 for the past 12 days. Of the new cases, 13 were imported from overseas, lifting the combined figure to 1,325.
New Zealand’s Ministry of Health reported no cases, 21 days since the last new case was reported in the country. The combined number of confirmed and probable cases reported to the World Health Organisation was 1,504, including 1,154 confirmed cases, said a ministry statement.– NNN-XINHUA
