Japan's new COVID-19 cases top 10,000 for 1st time, Malaysia reports 17,170 new infections
Source: Xinhua| 2021-07-29 20:01:10|Editor: huaxia
HONG KONG, July 29 (Xinhua) -- Japan's new COVID-19 cases topped 10,000 for the first time on Thursday while Malaysia reported 17,170 new cases in the latest developments of the COVID-19 pandemic in Asia-Pacific countries.
A total of 10,110 new COVID-19 cases were reported in Japan until 5:30 p.m. local time with a record number of 3,865 daily COVID-19 cases confirmed in Tokyo, local media reported.
Three prefectures near Tokyo will jointly request the Japanese central government to put them into regions under the emergency state following a recent increase in the number of COVID-19 cases, according to Chiba Governor Toshihito Kumagai, local media reported.
Malaysia reported 17,170 new COVID-19 infections, the health ministry said, bringing the national total to 1,078,646. Health Ministry Director-General Noor Hisham Abdullah said in a press statement that 32 of the new cases are imported and 17,138 are local transmissions.
The Philippines' Department of Health (DOH) reported 5,735 new infections, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the Southeast Asian country to 1,572,287. The death toll climbed to 27,577 after 176 more patients died from the viral disease.
China delivered an additional batch of Sinovac CoronaVac vaccines to the Philippines to support the Southeast Asian country's inoculation campaign against the pandemic.
The Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) has reached a dreadful new milestone by recording 239 new local COVID-19 cases, and the sources of 126 cases are under investigation.
New Zealand's regulatory authority Medsafe granted provisional approval of the AstraZeneca vaccine for individuals aged 18 and older.
Further government actions announced are balanced to provide more certainty for Kiwis wanting to return from Australia, while continuing to protect New Zealand from COVID-19, New Zealand acting Minister for COVID-19 Response Ayesha Verrall said.
New Zealand reported five new cases in recent returnees in managed isolation facilities, and no cases in the community.
Pakistan recorded more than 4,000 new cases for the second consecutive day on Wednesday, the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC) said.
The NCOC, a department leading Pakistan's campaign against the pandemic, said that a total of 4,497 new cases were reported on Wednesday, raising the overall cases to 1,020,324.
Cambodia has decided to impose a night curfew in capital Phnom Penh, provincial towns and populated areas for two weeks, starting from Friday to Aug. 12, in order to curb the spread of Delta variant, Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen said.
Cambodia reported 765 new COVID-19 infections including 328 imported cases, pushing the national total caseload to 75,917, the Ministry of Health (MoH) said in a statement.
Eleven more fatalities had been recorded, bringing the overall death toll to 1,350, the ministry said, adding that 694 other patients had recovered, raising the total number of recoveries to 68,386.
India's tally rose to 31,528,114 as 43,509 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours across the country, showed the federal health ministry's latest data. Besides, as many as 640 deaths from the pandemic were reported since Wednesday morning, taking the total death toll to 422,662.
South Korea reported 1,674 more cases as of midnight Wednesday compared to 24 hours ago, raising the total number of infections to 195,099. The daily caseload was down from the record high of 1,895 tallied in the previous day, but it hovered above 1,000 for 23 straight days. The daily average tally for the past week was 1,571.
Fiji reported 1,057 new cases for the past 24 hours, with 12 more deaths logged from July 24-27.
Fiji's Permanent Secretary for Health James Fong said the death toll in the country stands at 218, with 216 of them recorded during the latest outbreak that started in April this year. Enditem
