More COVID-19 in Asia-Pacific, India records largest daily jump

New Delhi: Asia-Pacific countries are still fighting against the COVID-19 pandemic, as India witnessed the biggest one-day jump and Bangladesh reported the highest daily death toll.

India’s federal health ministry on Sunday morning reported 147 new deaths and 6,767 positive cases since Saturday in the country, taking the death toll to 3,867 and total cases to 131,868.

This is the highest one day spike so far in the country, showed the data.

Bangladesh recorded 28 new fatalities, the highest daily death toll since the pandemic began in the country on March 8.

The number of confirmed infections increased to 33,610, with the daily rise of 1532 cases reported in the last 24 hours as of 8:00am local time on Sunday.

In Indonesia, the total number rose by 526 within one day to 22,271, and the death toll increased by 21 to 1372.

The Philippines announced 258 positive cases, pushing the total number of cases to 14,035 since the outbreak in the country in January. The Department of Health said in a daily bulletin that the number of recoveries now has reached 3249 after 72 more patients have recovered. The daily death toll also increased to 868 after five more deaths have been recorded. Malaysia reported 60 new infections, with 33 of them traced to two immigration detention facilities, the Health Ministry said on Sunday.