COVID cases surge in Asia-Pacific as Indonesia reports highest daily spike in over 3 months
COVID cases surge in Asia-Pacific as Indonesia reports highest daily spike in over 3 months
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Asia-Pacific countries were still seeing skyrocketing coronavirus infections on Wednesday as Indonesia reported the highest daily spike since late February, while India's tally reached 29.63 million.

Indonesia reportedly recorded 9,944 fresh confirmed cases in the past 24 hours, marking the highest daily spike since February 22 and bringing the total tally to 1,937,652, the health ministry said. The death toll added by 196 to 53,476.

India's COVID-19 tally rose to 29,633,105, with 62,224 new cases recorded in the past 24 hours, said the country's health ministry. Besides, 2,542 more patients died since Tuesday morning, taking the death toll to 379,573.

This was the ninth successive day when less than 100,000 cases were cloked in India, after peaking to over 400,000 for several days in April and May. There are currently 865,432 active cases, a decrease of 47,946 during the past 24 hours.

The Philippines' Department of Health (DOH) reported 5,414 new infections, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the Southeast Asian country to 1,332,832.

Global Covid Roundup: According to the latest CSSE figures on Covid-19, the other worst countries with over 3 million cases are Brazil (17,628,588), France (5,809,319), Turkey (5,348,249), Russia (4,605,805), the UK (4,605,805), Italy (5,189,260), Argentina (4,198,620), Colombia (3,829,879), Spain (3,749,031), Germany (3,726,767) and Iran (3,060,135)..

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