HONG KONG, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- The COVID-19 cases in Indonesia rose by 8,692 within one day to 836,718 on Monday, while Cambodia reopened schools after the community outbreak was brought under control.

The death toll in Indonesia added by 214 to 24,343, the Health Ministry said.

Indonesia needs 36,000 more hospital beds in anticipation of a spike in COVID-19 cases until early February, Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin said. The number of beds needed to treat COVID-19 patients account for about 30 percent of the total active cases.

The government decided to extend its travel restrictions for foreign nationals for another two weeks amid COVID-19 concerns, a senior minister said.

Bangladesh reported 849 new COVID-19 cases and 22 new deaths, making the tally at 523,302 and death toll at 7,803, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said.

Cambodia reopened public schools across the kingdom after the first community outbreak of COVID-19 was over late last year.

In a message to mark the new academic year 2020-2021, Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen urged all schools to strictly adhere to the safety measures set by the Ministry of Health.

Meanwhile, another Cambodian migrant worker back from Thailand tested positive for COVID-19, raising the total number of infected laborers from Thailand to 27 so far, said a Ministry of Health (MoH) statement.

The Philippines has logged a total number of 489,736 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with the report of 2,052 new daily infections, the highest since Dec. 18.

The Department of Health (DOH) said in its daily bulletin that the death toll climbed to 9,416 after 11 more patients died from the coronavirus epidemic. It added that 10 more patients recovered, raising the total number of recoveries to 458,206.

Thailand reported 249 new COVID-19 cases, including a nine-month-old infant, according to the Center for the COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA).

Of the new cases, 224 were local infections while 25 others were those in quarantine upon arrival from abroad, CCSA spokesman Taweesin Visanuyothin told a daily press conference.

India's COVID-19 tally rose to 10,466,595 as 16,311 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours, said the latest data from the health ministry.

According to the data, the death toll mounted to 151,160 after 161 more COVID-19 patients died since Sunday morning.

A three-day lockdown of Australia's third-largest city of Brisbane will be lifted after no new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 were recorded over the weekend, Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said.

The lockdown was imposed in response to a hotel quarantine worker testing positive for a new more contagious strain of COVID-19 being reported in Britain.

New Zealand reported four cases of COVID-19 in managed isolation since the last media statement on Sunday, with no new cases in the community.

South Korea reported 451 more cases of COVID-19 compared to 24 hours ago, raising the total number of infections to 69,114.

The daily caseload fell below 500 in 41 days since Dec. 1, but it hovered above 100 for 64 days since Nov. 8 owing to small cluster infections in Seoul and its surrounding Gyeonggi province as well as imported cases. Enditem

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