The number of COVID-19 cases in the Philippines soared to 178,022 on Thursday as India's tally surpassed 2.8 million after reporting nearly 70,000 daily cases.

The number of confirmed cases in the Philippines surged to 178,022 after the Department of Health (DOH) reported 4,339 new cases. The death toll in the country increased to 2,883 after 88 more patients died.

India's COVID-19 tally rose to 2,836,925 and the death toll in the country also surged to 53,866, according to the latest data released by the federal health ministry. As many as 69,652 new cases and 977 deaths were reported during the past 24 hours.

The Tokyo metropolitan government reported 339 new COVID-19 cases, with daily infections in the capital topping 300 for the first time since Saturday. The latest figure follows 186 cases confirmed on Wednesday and 207 new cases reported on Tuesday.

Malaysia reported five new COVID-19 infections, the Health Ministry said, bringing the national total to 9,240. Health Ministry Director-General Noor Hisham Abdullah said in a press statement that all five cases are imported, with no new local transmissions reported.

The COVID-19 cases in Indonesia rose by 2,266 within one day to 147,211, with the death toll adding by 72 to 6,418, the Health Ministry said.

The number of active cases in Australia has dropped by more than 2,000 to the lowest level in recent weeks.

The decline was largely driven by the number of active cases in Victoria, the hardest-hit state by the COVID-19 pandemic in the country, falling by 2,291 since Wednesday and down to 4,864, after authorities conducted more interviews and medical assessments to clear patients that have recovered.

New Zealand confirmed five new cases as part of the community outbreak, bringing the total number of active cases in the country to 101.

All the new cases are linked to previous cases in the Auckland family cluster, Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield told a daily briefing. There are no new cases to report in managed isolation.

Myanmar reported two more locally transmitted cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 396, said a release from the Health and Sports Ministry.

South Korea reported 288 more cases compared to 24 hours ago, raising the total number of infections to 16,346. The daily caseload soared in triple figures for seven straight days. The number of confirmed cases for the past seven days reached 1,576 due to infections in Seoul and its surrounding Gyeonggi province traceable to church services.