A security guard (R) is on duty at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, India, May 25, 2020.(Xinhua/Partha Sarkar)
-- India reports biggest daily jump of 7,466 new COVID-19 cases,165,799 in total;
-- South Korea reports 58 more COVID-19 cases, 11,402 in total;
-- Bangladesh reports highest daily rise of 2,523 COVID-19 cases, 42,844 in total;
-- Pakistan reports 2,636 new COVID-19 cases, 64,028 in total;
-- Indonesia reports 678 new COVID-19 cases, 25,216 in total;
-- Afghanistan reports 623 new COVID-19 cases, 13,659 in total.
HONG KONG, May 29 (Xinhua) -- The following are the latest developments of the COVID-19 pandemic in Asia-Pacific countries.
NEW DELHI -- India's federal health ministry on Friday morning reported 175 more deaths and 7,466 new positive cases due to the COVID-19 pandemic, taking the number of deaths to 4,706 and total cases to 165,799.
This is the biggest spike in the number of COVID-19 cases in the country so far.
Students return for classes at Seryun Elementary School in Seoul, South Korea, May 27, 2020.(Xinhua/Lee Sang-ho)
SEOUL -- South Korea reported 58 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 11,402.
The daily caseload rose sharply for the past three days, recording 79 on Thursday and 40 on Wednesday each.
An official checks the body temperature of a worker at a garment factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on May 7, 2020.(Xinhua/Stringer)
DHAKA -- Bangladesh confirmed 2,523 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, the highest daily rise since the start of the pandemic in the country on March 8, bringing the total to 42,844.
Professor Nasima Sultana, a senior health ministry official, told an online media briefing in Dhaka that "the total number of positive cases is now 42,844 and the death toll stands currently at 582."
Passengers look on from a train at a railway station in eastern Pakistan's Lahore on May 20, 2020.(Xinhua/Sajjad)
ISLAMABAD -- The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Pakistan has risen to 64,028 with 1,317 deaths, according to the data updated by the country's health ministry Friday morning.
A total of 2,636 new cases and 57 deaths were reported in the last 24 hours, the statistics revealed.
Self-quarantine people have a morning gym organised by health volunteers amid the COVID-19 outbreak at a quarantine site in Tangerang, Indonesia, May 26, 2020.(Xinhua/Agung Kuncahya B.)
JAKARTA -- The COVID-19 cases in Indonesia rose by 678 within one day to 25,216, with the death toll adding by 24 to 1,520, Achmad Yurianto, a Health Ministry official, said at a press conference on Friday.
According to him, 252 more people had been discharged from hospitals, as the total number of recovered patients stood at 6,492.
A cook distributes free food to people during Ramadan in Shiberghan city of Jawzjan province, Afghanistan, May 15, 2020. (Xinhua/Mohammad Jan Aria)
KABUL -- Afghanistan's Public Health Ministry has registered 623 new positive cases of COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, totaling the number of patients infected with the virus to 13,659 in the country, a spokesman for the ministry Tawhid Shakohmand said Friday.
Photo taken on May 20, 2020 shows social distancing cordons applied on a bus in Sydney, Australia.(Xinhua/Bai Xuefei)
SYDNEY -- The number of cases on board the live animal export ship, Al Kuwait, which is docked in the Australian state of Western Australia (WA), jumped to 20 on Friday, with eight new positive tests.
WA Health Minister Roger Cook revealed that all 48 crew have been tested and the ten who remained on the ship all returned negative results.■
