India's COVID-19 tally reaches 25.4m, 4,529 new deaths

More COVID-19 cases and deaths were reported in Asia-Pacific on Wednesday, as India recorded 267,334 new infections, taking the total to 25,496,330, reported Xinhua.

The death toll rose to 283,248 with 4,529 more deaths, the highest in 24 hours so far, recorded since Tuesday morning.

There are still 3,226,719 active cases in the country, as there was a decrease of 127,046 cases in the past 24 hours. The number of daily active cases has been on the decline over the past few days, after a continuous surge since mid-April.

A total of 21,986,363 people have been cured and discharged from hospitals so far across the country.

Malaysia reported 6,075 new infections in the highest daily spike since the outbreak, bringing the national total to 485,496, the Health Ministry said on Wednesday.

Health Ministry Director-General Noor Hisham Abdullah said in a press statement that three of the new cases are imported and 6,072 are local transmissions.

Another 46 deaths have been reported, pushing the total deaths to 2,040.

Malaysia has suffered a resurgence of COVID-19 cases which has forced the government to impose a nationwide movement control order till June to curb the spread. The government is now facing calls to impose a stricter lockdown as daily new cases continue to rise.

The Philippines' Department of Health (DOH) reported 4,700 new infections, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the Southeast Asian country to 1,159,071.

The death toll climbed to 19,507 after 136 more patients died from the viral disease, the DOH said.

The Philippines, with a population of 110 million, has tested nearly 12 million people since the outbreak of the pandemic in January 2020.

Thailand reported 3,394 new cases and 29 more fatalities as the country continued to grapple with its worst coronavirus outbreak so far.

Of the new cases, 3,377 were domestic infections, with 1,498 being confirmed via active testing at prisons, while 17 others were imported cases, the Center for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) spokeswoman Apisamai Srirangsan told a daily news briefing.

The new cases still concentrated in the capital Bangkok and its vicinity regions. Some 876 new infections were reported in Bangkok, where 34 clusters have been detected.

The infections raised the country's total caseload to 116,949, more than quadrupling from the start of April, when the latest outbreak began to spread from Bangkok.

The 29 additional fatalities added the death toll to 678.

Pakistan reported 3,256 new cases over the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 886,184, the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC) said.

The country's eastern Punjab province appeared as the worst-hit region with 329,913 confirmed cases, followed by southern Sindh province where 301,247 people have been tested positive, the NCOC said in a statement.

A total of 104 people died across the country during the last 24 hours, raising the death toll to 19,856, said the statement, adding that 799,951 people have recovered while 4,549 patients are in critical condition.

South Korea reported 654 new cases, raising the total number of infections to 133,471.

Of the new cases, 245 were Seoul residents and 159 were people residing in Gyeonggi province.

Seventeen cases were imported from overseas, lifting the combined figure to 8,789.

Eight more deaths were confirmed, leaving the death toll at 1,912.