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The following are the latest developments from the COVID-19 pandemic in Asia-Pacific countries on Monday:
KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysia reported 1,212 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing the national total to 65,697. The Director General of the Health Ministry, Noor Hisham Abdullah, told a news conference that nine of the new cases were imported and 1,203 were local broadcasts.
KABUL – Afghanistan’s Ministry of Public Health reported 283 new cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the country’s total count to 46,498.
Meanwhile, an additional 16 deaths were recorded from the coronavirus epidemic, bringing the death toll from COVID-19 to 1,779 since its February outbreak in Afghanistan, according to the ministry statement.
SUVA – Fijian President Jioji Konrote urged Fijians not to abandon the health practices and habits adopted this year to prevent COVID-19 infection and expressed his confidence in the recovery of the Pacific nation.
The country reported four more imported cases, bringing the total number of active COVID-19 cases to seven in the island nation.
According to a statement from Fiji’s Ministry of Health and Medical Services (MHMS), the four new border quarantine COVID-19 cases are citizens of Fiji who arrived in the island nation on a repatriation flight from Auckland, New Zealand on November 26.
COLOMBO – The number of COVID-19 patients in Sri Lanka surpassed the 23,000 mark after more than 400 new cases were detected Sunday night, official figures from the Health Ministry show here.
As of Monday morning, the total number of reported infected patients was 23,484, of whom 17,002 patients had recovered and been discharged from hospitals.
JAKARTA – Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Indonesia increased by 4,617 in the last 24 hours to 538,883, and the death toll rose by 130 to 16,945, the Health Ministry said BANGKOK – Two Thai women who illegally crossed the border to return to Thailand. from Myanmar have confirmed they are positive for COVID-19, according to a report issued by the Center for Management of the COVID-19 Situation. NEW DELHI – The local government in India’s western state of Rajasthan has decided to close schools, colleges, cinemas and entertainment parks until December 31 in the wake of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, authorities said.
India’s COVID-19 count reached 9,431,691, as 38,772 new cases were recorded over the past 24 hours, according to the latest data from the Ministry of Health.
According to the data, the death toll rose to 137,139, as 443 patients died since Sunday morning.
MANILA – The Philippines Department of Health (DOH) reported 1,773 new cases, bringing the total number in the country to 431,630.PHNOM PENH – Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen said eight more people tested positive for COVID-19 , bringing the total number of people infected in the first community transmission to 14.
The country closed all cinemas, art venues and museums again after the community broadcast.
WELLINGTON – New Zealand reported four new cases in managed isolation and no new community cases.
Of the cases in managed isolation, one person arrived from Ethiopia via Dubai and Kuala Lumpur on November 14. The person tested positive on Friday, the 11th, according to the Health Ministry.
SEOUL – South Korea reported 438 more cases of COVID-19 as of midnight Sunday compared to 24 hours ago, bringing the total number of infections to 34,201.
The number of daily cases remained below 500 for two days in a row, but increased by triple digits for 23 days due to small cluster infections in Seoul and the surrounding Gyeonggi province, as well as imported cases.
