People seen wearing masks while walking the street in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (Photo: Xinhua/VNA)The country also confirmed 2,712 new coronavirus cases, puttingthe national tally at nearly 275,000.
In Indonesia, 9,039 new COVID-19 cases and 181 relateddeaths were logged on the same day, raising the total infections and death tollin the country to 1,252,685 and 33,969, respectively. Indonesia remains as thehardest-hit by the pandemic in Southeast Asia.
The Philippines, meanwhile, recorded 1,744 new cases,bringing the total number of infections in the country to 555,163. The death tollclimbed to 11,673.
The Philippines, which has about 110 million population, hastested over 7.9 million people since the outset of the viral disease early lastyear.
World Health Organisation Representative in the PhilippinesRabindra Abeyasinghe stressed the need to carefully study the plan to ease the lockdownrestrictions next month to revive the pandemic-hit economy and address thegrowing hunger rate.
Though the number of cases has plateaued, the transmission hasnot flattened yet, he said, urging the country to be conscious of the fact thatthere is a relatively high-level of transmission now there in the community,and the presence of new variants complicates that situation./.
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