HONG KONG, May 24 (Xinhua) -- Asia-Pacific countries are still fighting against the COVID-19 pandemic, as India witnessed the biggest one-day jump and Bangladesh reported the highest daily death toll.

India's federal health ministry on Sunday morning reported 147 new deaths and 6,767 positive cases since Saturday in the country, taking the death toll to 3,867 and total cases to 131,868.

This is the highest one day spike so far in the country, showed the data.

Bangladesh recorded 28 new fatalities, the highest daily death toll since the pandemic began in the country on March 8.

The number of confirmed infections increased to 33,610, with the daily rise of 1,532 cases reported in the last 24 hours as of 8:00 a.m. local time on Sunday.

In Indonesia, the total number rose by 526 within one day to 22,271, and the death toll increased by 21 to 1,372.

The Philippines announced 258 positive cases, pushing the total number of cases to 14,035 since the outbreak in the country in January.

The Department of Health said in a daily bulletin that the number of recoveries now has reached 3,249 after 72 more patients have recovered. The daily death toll also increased to 868 after five more deaths have been recorded.

Malaysia reported 60 new infections, with 33 of them traced to two immigration detention facilities, the Health Ministry said on Sunday.

The new cases pushed the total cases nationwide to 7,245, of which 1,185 are active cases, with nine currently being held in intensive care and four of those in need of assisted breathing.

South Korea confirmed 25 more cases compared to 24 hours ago as of 0:00 a.m. Sunday local time, raising the total number of infections to 11,190.

The daily caseload stayed above 20 for the third straight day. Of the new cases, eight were imported from overseas, lifting the combined figure to 1,212.

There are 27 active cases of COVID-19 in New Zealand as the country reported no new case on Sunday, said a statement of the Ministry of Health.

This means New Zealand's combined total number of confirmed and probable cases stays at 1,504, of which 1,154 are confirmed, it said.

New Zealand currently has 1,456 people reported as having recovered, an increase of one on Saturday. Enditem

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