SEOUL – South Korea reported 209,169 new COVID-19 cases as of midnight Sunday compared to 24 hours ago, raising the total number of infections to 9,582,815, the health authorities said Monday. The daily caseload was sharply down from 334,708 in the previous day due to fewer virus tests over the weekend, according to the Korea … Read more
WELLINGTON – New Zealand reported 14,463 new community cases of COVID-19 on Monday, said the Ministry of Health in a statement. Among the new community infections, 3,279 were in the largest city Auckland. The rest of the cases were identified across the nation, including 2,267 in Canterbury, according to the ministry. In addition, there were … Read more
KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysia reported 19,105 new COVID-19 infections as of midnight Sunday, bringing the national total to 3,993,124, according to the health ministry. There are 386 new imported cases, with 18,719 being local transmissions, data released on the ministry’s website showed. A further 71 deaths have been reported, bringing the death toll to 34,400. … Read more
BEIJING: China on Sunday imposed stay-at-home orders on millions more people in the country’s northeast as it battles its biggest Covid-19 outbreak in two years. The country has largely kept the virus at bay since it brought to heel its initial outbreak in 2020 using targeted lockdowns, mass testing and travel restrictions. But the Omicron strain has … Read more
ULAN BATOR – Mongolia recorded 77 new COVID-19 infections in the past 24 hours, the lowest since March 7, 2021, when 67 daily cases were reported, the country’s health ministry said on Friday. With the new infections, the national tally increased to 468,495, the ministry said in a statement. Meanwhile, the country’s COVID-19 death toll … Read more
VIENTIANE – Laos registered 1,508 new COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, exceeding the 1,000 mark for the first time since Jan. 19, bringing the national tally to 150,639. Latsamy Vongkhamsao, deputy director general of the Department of Communicable Disease Control under the Lao Ministry of Health, told a press conference in the Lao … Read more
SEOUL – South Korea reported 407,017 new COVID-19 cases as of midnight Thursday compared to 24 hours ago, raising the total number of infections to 8,657,609, the health authorities said Friday. The daily caseload was sharply down from a record high of 621,328 in the previous day, but it marked the second-highest number, according to … Read more
KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysia reported 27,004 new COVID-19 infections as of midnight Thursday, bringing the national total to 3,927,437, according to the health ministry. There are 719 new imported cases, with 26,285 being local transmissions, data released on the ministry’s website showed. A further 86 deaths have been reported, bringing the death toll to 34,185. … Read more
NEW DELHI – India’s COVID-19 tally rose to 43,004,005 on Friday as 2,528 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours across the country, showed the federal health ministry’s latest data. Besides, 149 deaths due to the pandemic since Thursday morning took the total death toll to 516,281. There are still 29,181 active COVID-19 … Read more
BEIJING – The Chinese mainland on Thursday reported 2,388 locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, up from 1,226 on Wednesday, the National Health Commission said Friday. Of the new local infections, 1,834 were reported in the province of Jilin, 113 in Fujian, 74 in Guangdong, and 61 in Tianjin and Shandong respectively. The rest of the cases … Read more
HANOI – Vietnam has switched its target in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic from controlling infections to controlling serious cases and deaths only, while heading to remove the disease from its “especially dangerous” list. The approach has been specified in a government resolution issued Thursday about COVID-19 prevention and control work in 2022 and 2023. … Read more
WELLINGTON – New Zealand reported 14,128 new community cases of COVID-19 on Friday, the Ministry of Health said in a statement. The ministry also reported five deaths with COVID-19. The total number of publicly reported COVID-19-related deaths is 156 in the country, it said. Among the infections reported on Friday, 3,498 cases were in the … Read more
SUVA – Tonga on Thursday recorded two more deaths from COVID-19, bringing the death toll to four, reported Tonga’s news website Matangi Tonga Online citing official data. It reported that Siale ‘Akau’ola, chief executive of the Ministry of Health, confirmed the two more deaths while saying an investigation was going on to see whether they … Read more
CHANGCHUN – The northeastern Chinese cities of Changchun and Jilin, hardest hit by the fresh outbreak of COVID-19, have distributed millions of COVID-19 self-test antigen kits to citizens, including students, to accelerate massive epidemiological screening. Starting from 4 a.m. Wednesday, Changchun, the capital of Jilin Province, has given out more than 3.34 million self-test kits … Read more
ULAN BATOR – Mongolia registered 95 new COVID-19 local cases over the past 24 hours, raising the national tally to 468,418, the country’s health ministry said Thursday. Meanwhile, the country’s COVID-19 death toll stands at 2,105, with no new deaths reported by Thursday for the seventh consecutive day. Currently, Mongolia has a total of 3,154 … Read more
SEOUL – South Korea reported a record high of 621,328 new COVID-19 cases as of midnight Wednesday compared to 24 hours ago, raising the total number of infections to 8,250,592, the health authorities said Thursday. The daily caseload was sharply up from 400,711 in the previous day, topping 600,000 for the first time, according to … Read more
NEW DELHI – India’s COVID-19 tally surpassed the 43 million mark on Thursday, rising to 43,001,477, as 2,539 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours across the country, showed the federal health ministry’s latest data. Besides, as many as 60 deaths due to the pandemic were reported since Wednesday morning, taking the total … Read more
KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysia reported 28,298 new COVID-19 infections as of midnight Wednesday, bringing the national total to 3,900,433, according to the health ministry. There are 698 new imported cases in the country, and 27,600 local transmissions, data released on the ministry’s website showed. A further 105 deaths have been reported, bringing the death toll … Read more
