Indian police participate in awareness campaign by drawing large graffiti of coronavirus at all traffic junctions urging people to cooperate with the Indian government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus in Bangalore, India, April 3, 2020. (Xinhua/Stringer)
-- India confirms 75 death toll in a day, 3,072 cases in total;
-- Nepal confirms three new cases, take more stringent lockdown;
-- Singapore confirms 75 new cases, 1,189 cases in total;
-- Vietnam confirms one new case, 240 cases in total;
-- Bangladesh extends public transport shutdown to April 11 amid the pandemic
HONG KONG, April 5 (Xinhua) -- The following are the latest developments of the COVID-19 pandemic in Asia-Pacific countries.
NEW DELHI -- India's federal health ministry said Saturday evening the death toll from the COVID-19 in the country rose to 75 and the total number of confirmed cases reached 3,072.
"As of 6:00 p.m (local time) today 75 deaths related to novel coronavirus have been recorded in the country," read the information released by the ministry.
A man wearing a mask carries a bag of food received under the government's relief package in Kathmandu, capital of Nepal on April 2,2020. (Xinhua/Sunil Sharma)
KATHMANDU -- Nepal's cabinet on Saturday decided to make the ongoing nationwide lockdown more stringent by further limiting the movement of people, a cabinet minister said.
The move has come after the country confirmed three new COVID-19 cases with one being the first case local transmission.
People walk along the promenade outside Singapore's Marina Bay Sands on April 1, 2020. (Xinhua/Then Chih Wey)
SINGAPORE -- Singapore's Ministry of Health (MOH) on Saturday reported 75 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total confirmed cases in the country to 1,189.
Among the new cases, six are imported cases with recent travel history abroad and 69 are local cases who have no recent travel history abroad. Of the 69 local cases, 29 are currently not linked.
Photo taken on April 1, 2020 shows people wearing face masks in Vietnam's southern Kien Giang province.(VNA/Handout via Xinhua)
HANOI -- Vietnam's Ministry of Health on Saturday evening confirmed a new case of the COVID-19 infection in the country, bringing the total number of the cases in the country to 240.
The new case is a Vietnamese female who recently returned from Thailand and was reportedly in contact with an earlier confirmed case, Vietnam News Agency reported Saturday.
Soldiers monitor distancing of people in queue for buying essentials as part of efforts to limit the spread of coronavirus in Dhaka, Bangladesh on April 2, 2020. (Str/Xinhua)
DHAKA, -- Bangladesh has extended the ongoing shutdown of the public transport to April 11 to contain the spread of COVID-19.
Bangladeshi Road, Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader, who is also the general secretary of the ruling Awami League party, made the announcement in a video message from his office in Dhaka on Saturday.
To combat COVID-19, Bangladesh had earlier declared a 10-day public transport shutdown effective from March 26 to April 4.■
