Police officers walk past the Sydney Opera House in Sydney on Oct 10, 2021, a day before the expected easing of COVID-19 restrictions in Australia's largest city. (STEVEN SAPHORE / AFP)
CANBERRA / MANILA / SINGAPORE / KUALA LUMPUR / SEOUL- Australia has surpassed 10,000 coronavirus deaths as COVID-19 case numbers continue to rise in the country, with 30 more deaths reported on Sunday.
Almost 35 percent of Australia's coronavirus deaths were aged 80-89, with a further 25 percent for those aged 90 and older
Of those deaths, more than 7,500 have occurred in 2022 during which restrictions have been largely abolished.
The states of Victoria and New South Wales, which account for more than 55 percent of Australia's population, have accounted for more than 75 percent of the nation's COVID-19 deaths.
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Almost 35 percent of Australia's coronavirus deaths were aged 80-89, with a further 25 percent for those aged 90 and older.
There were more than 30,000 new COVID-19 cases reported across Australia on Sunday, taking the country's total number of cases since the start of the pandemic to approximately 8.2 million.
Minister for Health and Aged Care Mark Butler recently asked people to get booster shots to provide further protection.
Malaysia
Malaysia reported 2,536 new COVID-19 infections as of midnight Sunday, bringing the national total to 4,573,891, according to the health ministry.
There are three new imported cases, with 2,533 cases being local transmissions, data released by the ministry showed.
Five new deaths have been reported, pushing the death toll to 35,776.
Health workers conduct COVID-19 swab tests on residents at a village in Quezon City, the Philippines, on May 31, 2021. (AARON FAVILA / AP)
Philippines
The Philippines' Department of Health (DOH) reported 1,323 new COVID-19 infections on Sunday, the highest tally since Feb 25, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the Southeast Asian country to 3,708,271.
The DOH said that 14 more people died from COVID-19 complications, bringing the death toll to 60,592.
The DOH said that Metro Manila recorded 5,520 new cases in the last 14 days, the highest number among the five regions with new cases.
The Philippines reported the highest single-day tally on Jan 15 this year, with 39,004 new cases. The country, with a population of around 110 million, has tested over 30.8 million people for COVID-19 since being hit by the pandemic.
In this April 3, 2020 file photo, an ambulance carrying staff in protective clothing leaves the National Centre for Infectious Diseases, where patients suffering from the COVID-19 novel coronavirus are being cared for, in Singapore. (ROSLAN RAHMAN / AFP)
Singapore
Singapore reported 6,127 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, bringing the total tally to 1,467,234.
Of the new cases, 551 cases were detected through PCR (polymerase chain reaction) tests and 5,576 through ART (antigen rapid test) tests, according to statistics released by the Ministry of Health.
Among the PCR cases, 522 were local transmissions and 29 were imported cases. Among the ART cases with mild symptoms and assessed to be of low risk, there were 5,343 local transmissions and 233 imported cases.
A total of 582 cases are currently warded in hospitals, with nine of them held in intensive care units.
Two new deaths from COVID-19 were reported on Sunday, bringing the death toll to 1,418, the ministry said.
People wait to be monitored for possible side effects after receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine at a vaccination center in Seoul, South Korea, Aug 5, 2021. (AHN YOUNG-JOON / AP)
South Korea
South Korea reported 6,253 new COVID-19 cases as of midnight Sunday compared to 24 hours ago, raising the total number of infections to 18,395,864, the health authorities said Monday.
The daily caseload was down from 10,059 in the previous day, but it was far higher than 3,423 tallied a week earlier, according to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA).
For the past week, the daily average number of confirmed cases was 9,499.
Among the new cases, 164 were imported, lifting the total to 35,926.
The number of infected people who were in a serious condition stood at 56, up three from the previous day.
Four more deaths were confirmed, leaving the death toll at 24,574. The total fatality rate was 0.13 percent.