The following are the latest developments of the COVID-19 pandemic in Asia-Pacific countries on Wednesday:
BANGKOK — Thailand is speeding up COVID-19 vaccine distribution as preparation for a mass inoculation campaign due to start next week amid efforts to contain the country’s worst wave of outbreak so far.
On Wednesday, the country reported 3,440 new COVID-19 cases, raising its total caseload to 165,462 from less than 30,000 at the beginning of April, when the third wave of outbreak started to spread from the capital Bangkok.
The country also reported 38 additional fatalities, bringing the death toll to 1,107.
MANILA — The Philippines’ Department of Health (DOH) reported 5,257 new infections, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the Southeast Asian country to 1,240,716.
The death toll rose to 21,158 after 146 more patients died from the viral disease, the DOH…
