India reports highest daily spike of nearly 10,000 cases

206 deaths in the past 24 hours.

New Delhi: India reported the highest daily spike of nearly 10,000 COVID-19 cases on Monday while new infections in Malaysia were brought down to a single digit.

During the past 24 hours, India’s health ministry reported 206 new deaths and 9983 more positive cases, the highest spike in terms of fresh cases in the country so far. The total number of deaths crossed the 7000-mark, reaching 7135, as the total number of cases reached 256,611, said the latest data issued by the health ministry.

Malaysia reported seven new cases, the lowest within nearly three months since implementing movement control order in March.

Bangladesh reported more deaths and 2735 new cases, bringing the total number of fatalities to 930 and the total number of confirmed cases to 68,504. Afghanistan’s Public Health Ministry recorded 575 new positive cases in one day, bringing the total number of cases to 20,917 in the country, spokesman for the ministry Tawhid Shakohmand said.

The number of cases in the Philippines rose to 22,474 after the Department of Health (DOH) reported 579 more infections. The COVID-19 cases in Indonesia rose by 847 within one day to 32,033, with the death toll adding by 32 to 1,883, health ministry official Achmad Yurianto said at a press conference.

The number of confirmed cases in Pakistan has risen to 103,671 with 2067