HONG KONG, July 15 (NNN-XINHUA) – The spread of COVID-19 has been accelerating in South and Southeast Asia, as India reported over 100,000 infections in the past four days.
The total number of COVID-19 cases in India surpassed the 900,000-mark on Tuesday, according to the latest data, issued by the health ministry.
The ministry announced 553 new deaths and another 28,498 cases during the past 24 hours across the country, taking the number of deaths to 23,727 and total cases to 906,752.
Bangladesh reported 3,163 new cases, taking the total to 190,057, with over half of the patients having recovered.
Nasima Sultana, a senior Health Ministry official, said in Dhaka that, 33 deaths were reported in the last 24 hours across Bangladesh, bringing the death toll to 2,424.
In the Philippines, the number of positive cases surged to 57,545 after the Department of Health (DOH) reported 634 new infections on Tuesday.
The DOH said the number of recoveries rose to 20,459 after 88 more patients survived the disease.
The death toll increased to 1,603 after six more patients died, DOH said.
The confirmed cases in Indonesia rose by 1,591 within one day, to 78,572, with the death toll adding by 54 to 3,710, a Health Ministry official said.
According to Achmad Yurianto, 947 more people had been discharged from hospitals, bringing the total number of recovered patients to 37,636.
In Japan’s capital city Tokyo, the metropolitan government confirmed 143 new infections, with the number staying below the 200-mark for the second straight day, but spiking above the 119 cases detected a day earlier.
Monday’s figure marked the first time the number of daily COVID-19 cases had dropped below 200 in five days.
New Zealand reported one new case, with the number of active cases in the country remaining at 25, according to the Ministry of Health. It has been 74 days since the last case was acquired locally from an unknown source, said a ministry statement.
The number of people that arrived in New Zealand in May, was the lowest for any month since May, 1959, because of COVID-19-related border and travel restrictions, the country’s statistics department, Stats NZ, said.
Cambodia confirmed nine more cases, raising the total number of infections in the country to 165, according to a Health Ministry statement.
South Korea reported 33 more cases as of midnight Tuesday, compared to 24 hours ago, raising the total number of infections to 13,512.
The daily caseload fell below 40 in three days, but it kept rising in double digits due to the continued small cluster infections and imported cases.– NNN-XINHUA
