Health workers participate in a COVID-19 vaccine delivery system trial in Hyderabad, India, Jan 2, 2021. (MAHESH KUMAR A. / AP)
SEOUL / YANGON / SUVA / KUALA LUMPUR / SINGAPORE / NEW DELHI / WELLINGTON- The incidence of COVID-19 pandemic continues to rise again in India, as around 80,000 new cases have been registered over the past one week.
According to the official figures released by the federal health ministry on Monday, 12,781 new cases were registered across the country, taking the total tally to 43,309,473
The number of active cases has increased by almost 60 percent over the past seven days. However, the concerned health authorities have ruled out an outbreak of a fourth COVID-19 wave.
According to the official figures released by the federal health ministry on Monday, 12,781 new cases were registered across the country, taking the total tally to 43,309,473. This was the fourth consecutive day when the number of new cases registered per day rose by over 12,000.
Besides, 18 people died from the pandemic in the country, taking the total death toll to 524,873.
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Delhi once again remains one of the worst COVID-19 affected places, with 1,530 fresh infections registered on Sunday evening. The number of active cases in the national capital stood at 5,542, as the positivity rate was at 8.41 percent. Three people died in Delhi due to COVID-19, according to the official figures released on Sunday evening.
The daily positivity rate in the country was recorded at 2.89 percent, while the weekly positivity rate has been 2.50 percent, revealed the federal health ministry.
Presently, there are still 76,700 active COVID-19 cases in the country with an increase of 4,226 active cases during the past 24 hours.
So far, 42,707,900 people have been successfully cured and discharged from hospitals, of whom 8,537 were discharged during the past 24 hours.
This undated picture released from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on May 20, 2022 shows employees of the Central Ideals Zoo disinfecting the zoo to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Pyongyang. (STR / KCNA VIA KNS / AFP)
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea has recorded another 18,820 new fever cases amid its first official COVID-19 outbreak, state news agency KCNA said on Monday, as daily reported infections continued to drop and no new deaths were reported.
Overall more than 4.6 million have shown fever symptoms since an outbreak was first acknowledged in mid-May, but the country has not revealed how many of those patients had actually tested positive for the coronavirus.
A nurse stands outside Tamara Twomey hospital in Suva, Fiji, Friday, June 25, 2021. A growing coronavirus outbreak in Fiji is stretching the health system and devastating the economy. It has even prompted the government to offer jobless people tools and cash to become farmers. (AILEEN TORRES-BENNETT / AP)
Fiji
Fiji's Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama on Sunday urged Fijians to take COVID-19 booster shots to help reduce the spread of the virus.
Those who still haven't got their two jabs "are the ones that are spreading the virus", Bainimarama told a local radio program.
The Fijian government is now working to have their people receive booster shots, and has asked health officials to help out, according to Fiji Broadcasting Corporation (FBC).
Bainimarama warned Fiji people that more viruses and sickness will be expected if they still don't take their booster dose. The Health Ministry is advising all eligible Fijians to take their boosters after three months of their first two doses.
He said the government has prepared 250,000 Pfizer vaccines to cater to those that have taken their first and second doses.
Malaysia
Malaysia reported 1,690 new COVID-19 infections as of midnight Sunday, bringing the national total to 4,540,612, according to the health ministry.
There are 10 new imported cases and 1,680 local transmissions, data released on the ministry's website showed.
No new deaths have been reported, leaving the death toll at 35,732.
The ministry reported 2,108 new recoveries, bringing the total number of cured and discharged to 4,478,936.
There are 25,944 active cases, with 23 being held in intensive care and 15 of them in need of assisted breathing.
The country reported 9,393 vaccine doses administered on Sunday alone, while 85.8 percent of the population have received at least one dose, 83.3 percent are fully vaccinated and 49.4 percent have received boosters.
Customers buy vegetables at a local morning bazaar, Oct 12, 2021, in Yangon, Myanmar. (PHOTO / AP)
Myanmar
Myanmar has fully vaccinated more than 27.5 million people, or 50.18 percent of the country's 54.8-million population, against COVID-19 as of Saturday, according to its Ministry of Health.
The ministry said on Sunday that the country has administered over 64.1 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines, and more than 2.4 million people have received booster shots.
Myanmar reported five new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the total tally to 613,490 cases, according to the health ministry.
The health authorities tested 4,160 people for COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, and the daily positivity rate was 0.12 percent.
It added that the death toll from COVID-19 in the country remained unchanged at 19,434 as no new deaths were confirmed in the past 24 hours.
The total number of patients who have recovered from COVID-19 in the country reached 592,492 on Sunday, including five new recoveries.
People wait to get vaccinated against COVID-19 at the Vodafone Events Center, south of Auckland, New Zealand, on July 31, 2021. (ZHAO GANG / XINHUA)
New Zealand
New Zealand recorded 4,024 new community cases of COVID-19 and nine more deaths from the pandemic, the Ministry of Health said on Monday.
Among the new community infections, 1,250 were reported in the largest city Auckland, the ministry said.
In addition, 53 new cases of COVID-19 were detected at the New Zealand border.
Currently, 391 COVID-19 patients are being treated in hospitals, including three in intensive care units or high dependency units.
New Zealand has reported 1,270,812 confirmed cases of COVID-19 since the pandemic hit the country in early 2020.
Students wearing face masks, as a preventive measure against COVID-19, walk home from school in Singapore on March 25, 2020.
(ROSLAN RAHMAN / AFP)
Singapore
Singapore reported 3,199 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, bringing the total tally to 1,367,761.
Of the new cases, 298 cases were detected through polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests and 2,901 through antigen rapid test (ART) tests, according to statistics released by the Ministry of Health.
Among the PCR cases, 279 were local transmissions and 19 were imported cases. Among the ART cases with mild symptoms and assessed to be of low risk, 2,621 were local transmissions and 280 were imported cases.
A total of 275 cases are currently warded in hospitals, with eight cases in intensive care units.
One more patient has died from complications due to COVID-19 infection, lifting the death toll to 1,403, the ministry said.
Vietnam
Vietnam recorded 533 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, down by 166 from Saturday, according to its Ministry of Health.
All the new infections were domestically transmitted in 38 provinces and cities.
The Vietnamese capital Hanoi remained the pandemic hotspot with 140 new cases recorded on Sunday, followed by the central Nghe An province with 30 and the northern Lao Cai province with 27.
The infections brought the total tally to 10,737,640 with 43,083 deaths. Nationwide, 9,601,630 COVID-19 patients, or over 89 percent of the infections, have recovered.