People wearing face masks leave a ferry terminal in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Sept. 10, 2020. (Xinhua)
-- Indonesia reports 3,737 new cases, 88 new deaths;
-- Cases in the Philippines surpass 250,000 with 4,040 new infections;
-- India reports highest single-day spike of 96,551 new cases;
-- Myanmar adds 115 more infections.
HONG KONG, Sept. 11 (Xinhua) -- The following are the latest developments of the COVID-19 pandemic in Asia-Pacific countries on Friday:
DHAKA -- Bangladesh reported 1,792 new COVID-19 cases and 34 new deaths, making the tally at 334,762 and the death toll at 4,668, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said.
The official data showed that 14,747 samples were tested in the last 24 hours across Bangladesh.
A health worker collects swab samples from a woman for the COVID-19 test at Pancasila Youth Center building in Surabaya, Indonesia, on Sept. 10, 2020. (Photo by Surya Betha/Xinhua)
JAKARTA -- The COVID-19 cases in Indonesia rose by 3,737 within one day to 210,940, with the death toll adding by 88 to 8,544, the Health Ministry said.
Photo taken on Aug. 8, 2020 shows a visitor enjoying the city view on the Kuala Lumpur Tower in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (Xinhua/Zhu Wei)
KUALA LUMPUR -- Malaysia reported 182 new COVID-19 infections, the Health Ministry said, bringing the national total to 9,810.
Health Ministry Director-General Noor Hisham Abdullah said in a press statement that one of the new cases is imported and 181 are local transmissions.
Students wearing face masks head for a train station in Wellington, New Zealand, Aug. 31, 2020. (Xinhua/Guo Lei)
WELLINGTON -- New Zealand confirmed one new community case of COVID-19 in Auckland.
The new case has an epidemiological link to an existing case and is associated with the Mt Roskill Evangelical Fellowship bereavement events group in Auckland, according to the Ministry of Health.
Staff members are seen inside a drive-in cinema at a mall carpark in Manila, the Philippines, Sept. 8, 2020. (Xinhua/Rouelle Umali)
MANILA -- The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the Philippines surged to 252,964 after the Department of Health (DOH) reported 4,040 new cases.
The number of recoveries also rose to 186,606 after 566 more patients have recovered, and 42 more patients have died from the viral disease, bringing the death toll to 4,108.
A snack stand owner wearing a face mask waits for customers with her dog in Myeongdong shopping area in Seoul, South Korea, Sept. 5, 2020. (Xinhua/Wang Jingqiang)
SEOUL -- South Korea reported 176 more cases of the COVID-19 compared to 24 hours ago, raising the total number of infections to 21,919. The daily caseload stayed below 200 for nine straight days, but it continued to grow in triple digits since Aug. 14.
Passengers maintain social distance inside a compartment of metro train in New Delhi, India, on Sept. 7, 2020. (Photo by Partha Sarkar/Xinhua)
NEW DELHI -- India's COVID-19 tally surpassed 4.5 million, reaching 4,562,414, and deaths reached 76,271, according to the latest data released by the federal health ministry.
As many as 96,551 new COVID-19 cases and 1,209 deaths were registered across the country since Thursday. This is the highest single-day spike in terms of new COVID-19 cases in the country.
A woman and her child wearing face masks stand in line while waiting to get their health checked during a medical checkup and contact tracing campaign in Yangon, Myanmar, Sept. 8, 2020. (Xinhua/U Aung)
YANGON -- Myanmar reported 115 more infection cases of COVID-19 this morning, totaling the cases to 2,265, said a release from the Health and Sports Ministry.
According to the ministry, a total of 185,474 samples have been tested for COVID-19 since it was first detected in Myanmar on March 23 and 8,750 patients are currently under surveillance.
A student walks through a disinfectant-sprayer at the Bak Touk High School in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Sept. 7, 2020. (Photo by Sovannara/Xinhua)
PHNOM PENH -- Cambodia's Ministry of Health (MoH) said all of the 274 COVID-19 positive patients in the kingdom had recovered, as the country had detected no new cases since the end of August.
Mosques in Cambodia reopened their doors to worshippers after a six-month closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic.■
