A staff gives a child hand sanitizer at a reopened market in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on May 11, 2020.(Xinhua/Stringer)
-- Bangladesh COVID-19 cases reach new daily high of 1,273, total cases climb to 22,268;
-- Japan confirms 22 new COVID-19 cases, 16,337 in total;
-- Malaysia reports 22 new COVID-19 cases, 6,894 in total;
-- Indonesia reports 489 new COVID-19 cases, 17,520 in total;
-- The Philippines reports 208 new COVID-19 cases, 12,513 in total.
HONG KONG, May 17 (Xinhua) -- The following are the latest developments of the COVID-19 pandemic in Asia-Pacific countries:
DHAKA -- The number of new COVID-19 infections in Bangladesh rose by 1,273 on Sunday, the highest daily increase since March 8.
Nasima Sultana, a senior Health Ministry official, told an online media briefing that "1,273 new COVID-19 positive cases and 14 deaths were reported in the last 24 hours across Bangladesh."
She said the number of confirmed infections totalled 22,268 while fatalities stood at 328.
Screens show Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announcing the lifting of Japan's nationwide state of emergency for 39 prefectures, in Tokyo, Japan, May 14, 2020. (Xinhua/Du Xiaoyi)
TOKYO -- The confirmed COVID-19 cases in Japan increased by 22 to reach 16,337, according to the latest figures from the health ministry and local authorities on Sunday.
The number excludes the 712 cases from the Diamond Princess cruise ship that was quarantined in Yokohama near Tokyo.
Meanwhile, the death toll in Japan from the pneumonia-causing virus currently stands at 769, according to the health ministry, with the figure including those from the cruise ship.
A soldier talks with a woman in an area under the semi-enhanced movement control order (SEMCO) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 15, 2020. (Xinhua/Chong Voon Chung)
KUALA LUMPUR -- The number of COVID-19 cases in Malaysia totalled 6,894 after 22 new cases were recorded, the Health Ministry said on Sunday.
Health Ministry Director-General Noor Hisham Abdullah said at a press briefing that 59 cases had been released, bringing the total cured and discharged to 5,571 or 80.8 percent of all cases.
A soldier distributes rice to a woman amid the COVID-19 outbreak in Depok, West Java, Indonesia, May 15, 2020. (Xinhua/Dedy Istanto)
JAKARTA -- Indonesia reported 59 new deaths of the COVID-19 on Sunday, raising the total fatalities in the country to 1,148, said Achmad Yurianto, a health ministry official.
Yurianto also said there were 489 new confirmed cases within the past 24 hours, taking the total to 17,520.
Workers assemble surgical masks inside a factory in Manila, the Philippines on May 15, 2020.(Xinhua/Rouelle Umali)
MANILA -- The Philippine health department reported on Sunday 208 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 12,513.
In a daily bulletin, the Department of Health (DOH) said 74 more patients have recovered from the disease, bringing the number of recoveries to 2,635. It said that seven more patients have died from the COVID-19, bringing the death toll to 824.
Children play on a street during the lockdown in New Delhi, India, May 13, 2020. (Xinhua/Javed Dar)
NEW DELHI -- India's federal health ministry Sunday morning reported 120 new deaths from COVID-19, and 4,987 positive cases since Saturday in the country, taking the number of deaths to 2,872 and total cases to 90,927.
This is the highest one-day spike in COVID-19 cases in the country.
"As on 8:00 a.m. (local time) Sunday, 2,872 deaths related to novel Coronavirus have been recorded in the country," read information released by the ministry.
A man reads at Yeouido Hangang Park in Seoul, South Korea, May 6, 2020. (Xinhua/Wang Jingqiang)
SEOUL -- South Korea reported 13 more cases of the COVID-19 compared to 24 hours ago as of 0:00 a.m. Sunday local time, raising the total number of infections to 11,050.
The daily caseload hovered below 20 for two straight days. Of the new cases, seven were imported from overseas, lifting the combined figure to 1,167.
Women wait to receive food supply items in Rawalpindi of east Pakistan's Punjab province on May 16, 2020. (Xinhua/Ahmad Kamal)
ISLAMABAD -- The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases has risen to 40,151 with 873 deaths in Pakistan, according to the data updated by the country's health ministry Sunday morning.
A total of 1,352 new cases and 39 deaths were reported in the last 24 hours, the statistics revealed.
Overall, 27,937 patients are under treatment in different hospitals while 11,341 have recovered completely, which is 28.2 percent of the total confirmed cases.
People walk at a park in Wellington, New Zealand, May 14, 2020. (Xinhua/Guo Lei)
WELLINGTON -- New Zealand reported one new confirmed case of COVID-19 on Sunday, said a statement of the Ministry of Health.
The case is linked to a cluster outbreak in an aged care facility in Christchurch, as a household contact of an earlier case.
This means New Zealand's combined total of confirmed and probable cases reach 1,499, of which 1,149 are confirmed, it said.
Photo taken on May 16, 2020 shows people doing exercise in a park in Canberra, Australia. (Xinhua/Chu Chen)
CANBERRA -- More than 1 million Australians have been tested for COVID-19, medical authorities said.
As of Sunday afternoon, there had been 7,044 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Australia.
"There have been over 1 million tests for COVID-19 carried out in Australia, to be exact 1,015,652 tests conducted right across the country," Deputy Chief Medical Officer Michael Kidd said on Saturday afternoon.
A man walks past Gaddi Baithak palace at Hanumandhoka Durbar Square during the nationwide lockdown in Kathmandu, Nepal, May 5, 2020. (Photo by Sunil Sharma/Xinhua)
KATHMANDU -- The Nepali government on Saturday confirmed the first death from the COVID-19.
In a statement, Nepal's Ministry of Health and Population said a 29-year-old woman from Sindhupalchwok, a district in the country's central region, died while being brought to a hospital in the outskirt of the capital city Kathmandu. ■
