SUVA -- Fiji announced on Thursday to lock down the capital city of Suva from early Friday morning following two more COVID-19 cases have been confirmed.

Announcing it in a televised speech on Thursday afternoon, Fiji's Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama said the sixth confirmed case is a 21-year-old woman and the seventh confirmed case is her 33-year-old husband. They are from Suva and are now in isolation at Navua Hospital, about 39 km west of Suva. (Fiji-Lockdown)

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NEW DELHI -- The death toll due to COVID-19 in India Thursday morning rose to 50 as the number of confirmed cases in the country reached 1965, the federal health ministry said.

"As on 9:00 a.m. (local time) today 50 deaths related to novel coronavirus have been recorded in the country," reads the information released by the ministry. (India-COVID-19)

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SEOUL -- Nuclear envoys of South Korea and the United States held phone talks Thursday over the Korean Peninsula issues, according to South Korean foreign ministry.

Lee Do-hoon, South Korea's special representative for Korean Peninsula peace and security affairs, talked over phone with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun at the request of Biegun, the ministry said in a statement. (S.Korea-U.S.-Talks)

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SYDNEY -- Australian authorities on Thursday continued a standoff with several cruise ships dwelling on the country's coast amid COVID-19 concerns.

More than a dozen cruise ships continued to linger in the waters off three Australian states, despite being directed by Australian Border Force (ABF) officials to leave. (Australia-Cruise Ships)

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PHNOM PENH -- Cambodia on Thursday confirmed one more case of COVID-19 in southwest Sihanoukville City, bringing the total number of the confirmed cases in the kingdom to 110, according to a Ministry of Health statement.

The new patient is a 58-year-old Cambodian hotel manager, who had direct contact with a group of French tourists, who had recently tested positive for the virus when they visited Sihanoukville City in the coastal province of Preah Sihanouk, the statement said. (Cambodia-COVID-19)

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TOKYO -- Japan's health ministry and local governments said that 2,524 people had been infected with the COVID-19 virus in Japan, according to the latest figures released Thursday morning.

The death toll in Japan from the pneumonia-causing virus currently stands at a total of 82 people, according to the health ministry, with the figure including those from the virus-hit Diamond Princess cruise ship that was quarantined in Yokohama, close to Tokyo. (Japan-COVID-19) Enditem

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