The following are the latest developments of the COVID-19 pandemic in Asia-Pacific countries on Thursday:
PHNOM PENH — Cambodia’s Ministry of Health (MoH) logged a daily record of 446 COVID-19 cases, raising the national case tally to 21,141 so far.
The new infections included 431 local cases and 15 imported cases, the MoH said in a statement.
Six more fatalities were reported, taking the death toll to 142, it said, adding that 980 patients have recovered, pushing the total number of recoveries to 9,519.
BANGKOK — Thailand has reported the highest daily count of new COVID-19 cases following new prison clusters, complicating the country’s fight against its worst coronavirus outbreak so far.
A total of 4,887 new infections were recorded in the last 24 hours, an “unusually high” number, Ministry of Foreign Affairs official Pensom Lertsithichai said at the Center for COVID-19…
