A staff member disinfects a train carriage at the Kamlapur Railway Station in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on May 31, 2020. (Str/Xinhua)
-- Confirmed COVID-19 cases top 60,000 in Bangladesh, deaths reach 811;
-- Indonesia reports 703 new COVID-19 cases, 49 new deaths;
-- The Philippines reports 244 new COVID-19 cases, tally at 20,626;
-- Afghanistan reports 915 new COVID-19 cases.
HONG KONG, June 5 (Xinhua) -- The following are the latest developments of the COVID-19 pandemic in Asia-Pacific countries:
DHAKA -- Bangladesh reported 2,828 more COVID-19 cases on Friday, bringing the total in the country to over 60,000.
"A total of 30 deaths including 23 men and seven women were reported in the last 24 hours, taking the death toll to 811," Nasima Sultana, a senior Health Ministry official, told an online media briefing in Dhaka.
"The number of confirmed infections in the country totaled 60,391 on Friday," she said.
People cross a street on the zebra crossing in Jakarta, Indonesia, June 5, 2020. (Photo by Veri Sanovri/Xinhua)
JAKARTA -- The COVID-19 cases in Indonesia rose by 703 within one day to 29,521, and the death toll increased by 49 to 1,770, Achmad Yurianto, a Health Ministry official, said at a press conference here on Friday.
According to him, 551 more people have been discharged from hospitals, bringing the total number of recovered patients to 9,443.
The pandemic has spread to all the 34 provinces in the archipelagic country. However, no more positive cases were found in six provinces as of 12:00 p.m. local time on Friday.
Women wearing face masks walk in Manila, the Philippines on June 4, 2020. (Xinhua/Rouelle Umali)
MANILA -- The number of coronavirus cases in the Philippines rose to 20,626 after the Department of Health (DOH) reported 244 more infections on Friday.
The DOH said in a daily bulletin that the number of recoveries further climbed to 4,330 after 82 more patients recovered.
The death toll also increased to 987 after three more patients died from the virus, the DOH added.
Afghans ride bicycles during a cycling event in Shiberghan city of Jawzjan province, Afghanistan, May 31, 2020. (Photo by Mohammad Jan Aria/Xinhua)
KABUL -- Afghanistan on Friday reported 915 newly confirmed COVID-19 cases, taking the country's total to 18,969, the country's Ministry of Public Health said.
Within the past 24 hours, 1,570 tests were conducted, and 915 were positive cases, the ministry said in a statement.
Up to 309 deaths have been recorded since the outbreak of the pandemic in the country in February, an increase of nine within the past 24 hours.
A security guard checks the temperature of a shopper in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 16, 2020. (Photo by Chong Voon Chung/Xinhua)
KUALA LUMPUR -- Malaysia reported 19 new COVID-19 cases, pushing the national total to 8,266, the Health Ministry said on Friday.
Health Ministry Director-General Noor Hisham Abdullah said at a press briefing that of the new cases, seven are imported while among the 12 local transmissions, nine are Malaysian and three are foreign nationals.
One more death was reported, the first since May 22, with the victim having suffered from health conditions before becoming infected, pushing the total deaths to 16.
A policeman is seen on duty at an empty street during a curfew in Male, the Maldives, April 3, 2020. (Photo by Li Xiang/Xinhua)
MALE -- The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the Maldives has risen to 1,872, local media reported here Friday.
Among all the cases, 1,215 are active cases and two are foreigners being treated abroad. So far, 648 patients have recovered and seven deaths have been reported, according to the Health Protection Agency.
A woman sprays disinfectant over masks of her family members in Agartala, Tripura, India, June 2, 2020. (Str/Xinhua)
NEW DELHI -- India's federal health ministry on Friday morning said that 273 new deaths due to COVID-19, besides fresh 9,851 positive cases, were reported during the past 24 hours across the country, taking the number of deaths to 6,348 and total cases to 226,770.
This is the highest daily spike in terms of fresh cases and deaths.
Police check cars at a temporary checkpoint on a crossroad in Suva, Fiji, April 11, 2020. (Xinhua/Zhang Yongxing)
SUVA -- Fiji is now free of COVID-19 as the remaining three COVID-19 patients were cleared on Friday, said a Fijian minister.
Fiji's health minister Ifereimi Waqainabete said Friday that they will continue to prepare and work as hard as they can to avoid any other waves of the deadly virus.
Photo taken on March 29, 2020 shows a square in Seoul, South Korea. (NEWSIS/Handout via Xinhua)
SEOUL -- South Korea reported 39 more cases of the COVID-19 compared to 24 hours ago as of 0:00 a.m. Friday local time, raising the total number of infections to 11,668.
The daily caseload stayed above 30 for five straight days due to small cluster infections from religious gatherings in the metropolitan area.■
