A man wearing a face mask walks on a street in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, July 20, 2020. (Photo by Chong Voon Chung/Xinhua)
-- Bangladesh's COVID-19 death toll rises to 3,267 as total cases reach 246,674;
-- Japan's capital sees COVID-19 cases top 200 for 9th day, Aichi Prefecture to declare state of emergency;
-- Australia records deadliest day with 15 COVID-19 deaths;
-- India's COVID-19 cases surpasses 1.9 million mark.
HONG KONG, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- The following are the latest developments of the COVID-19 pandemic in Asia-Pacific countries on Wednesday:
KUALA LUMPUR -- Malaysia reported 21 new COVID-19 infections, the Health Ministry said, bringing the national total to 9,023.
Another 18 cases have been released, bringing the total cured and discharged to 8,702 or 96.4 percent of all cases.
No new deaths have been reported, leaving the total deaths at 125.
A man wearing a mask enters the Shinkansen Tracks Shinagawa Station in Tokyo, Japan, June 30, 2020. (Xinhua/Du Xiaoyi)
TOKYO -- The Tokyo metropolitan government confirmed 263 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, while a resurgence of cases in Aichi Prefecture has seen a state of emergency to be declared in the central Japanese region.
Tokyo's latest figure marks the ninth consecutive day that new daily cases have topped 200, but the number of infections has dropped from the previous day's tally of 309 and retreated from its record 472 cases reported Saturday.
Meanwhile, as Aichi Prefecture reported 144 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday pushing its cumulative total up to 2,528 cases, its governor Hideaki Omura said the prefecture would declare a state of emergency from Thursday through Aug. 24.
Staff clean up the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka, Bangladesh, June 16, 2020. (Str/Xinhua)
DHAKA -- Bangladesh reported 33 more deaths and over 2,654 new COVID-19 cases.
Senior Health Ministry official Nasima Sultana said in a briefing that "the number of confirmed infections in the country totaled 246,674 while fatalities stood at 3,267."
According to the official, the COVID-19 fatality rate in Bangladesh is 1.32 percent and the current recovery rate is 57.46 percent.
A woman receives food in central Kampong Thom province, Cambodia, June 30, 2020. (WFP/Handout via Xinhua)
PHNOM PENH -- Cambodia confirmed two new imported COVID-19 cases, raising the total number of infections in the country to 243, said a Health Ministry's statement.
The Southeast Asian nation has so far recorded a total of 243 confirmed COVID-19 cases, with 202 patients cured and 41 remaining in hospital.
A paramedic takes a swab sample from a man for COVID-19 test in Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, August 4, 2020. (Photo by Mardi/Xinhua)
JAKARTA -- The COVID-19 cases in Indonesia rose by 1,815 within one day to 116,871, with the death toll adding by 64 to 5,452, the Health Ministry said.
According to the ministry, 1,839 more people were discharged from hospitals, bringing the total number of recovered patients to 73,889.
The virus has spread to all the country's 34 provinces.
A vendor wearing a face mask falls asleep behind his fruit stand at a market in Manila, the Philippines, Aug. 3, 2020. (Xinhua/Rouelle Umali)
MANILA -- The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the Philippines surged to 115,980 after the Department of Health (DOH) reported 3,462 new cases.
The DOH said that the number of recoveries further rose to 66,270 after it reported 222 patients having survived the disease.
The death toll also increased to 2,123 after nine more patients have succumbed to the viral disease, the DOH said.
A sanitation worker cleans a facility in Melbourne, Australia, on Aug. 3, 2020. (Photo by Bai Xue/Xinhua)
CANBERRA -- Australia recorded its worst day of the coronavirus pandemic as the nation's death toll climbed to 247 after Victorian authorities announced 15 deaths.
The deaths included a man in his 30s, and 10 of the 15 new deaths are linked to known outbreaks in aged care facilities.
Australia's Deputy Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Michael Kidd said in the update on Wednesday that this is the country's highest number of COVID-19 deaths in a single day.
As of Wednesday afternoon, there had been 19,444 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Australia, and the number of new cases in the last 24 hours is 739.
A senior student gets body temperature measured at Kyungbok High School in Seoul, South Korea, May 20, 2020. (Photo by Lee Sang-ho/Xinhua)
SEOUL -- South Korea reported 33 more cases of COVID-19 as of 0:00 a.m. Wednesday local time compared to 24 hours ago, raising the total number of infections to 14,456.
The daily caseload stayed above 30 for two straight days due to small cluster infections and imported cases.
One more death was confirmed, leaving the death toll at 302. The total fatality rate stood at 2.09 percent.
A health worker collects swab samples from a resident for COVID-19 tests in Delhi, India, Aug. 4, 2020. (Photo by Partha Sarkar/Xinhua)
NEW DELHI -- India's health ministry announced that the country has surpassed 1.9 million COVID-19 cases, reaching 1,908,254.
According to the ministry's data, as many as 52,509 new COVID-19 cases were detected in the past 24 hours. Besides, 857 deaths took place since Tuesday, taking the total death toll to 39,795.
The recovery rate on the country is consistently increasing even as a total 1,282,215 people who were infected with the virus have successfully recovered and discharged from various hospitals across the country. Still there are a total of 586,244 active cases in the country.
As per the federal health ministry, the recovery rate of COVID-19 patients as on Tuesday had increased to 66.30 percent.
Wild ducks swim on the Lake Wakatipu in Queenstown, New Zealand, July 16, 2020. (Xinhua/Guo Lei)
WELLINGTON -- New Zealand reported two new cases of COVID-19, with the number of active cases in the country being 24, all in managed isolation and quarantine facilities, according to the Ministry of Health.
It has been 96 days since the last case of COVID-19 was acquired locally from an unknown source, according to the ministry.■