Four new cases in Australia's New South Wales state were detected Monday bringing the infections in the latest cluster to 11. The state is on high alert as a result of Sydney's increasing outbreak of the infectious Delta variant of Covid-19.
Contact tracing is underway to find how a member of an international flight crew contracted the disease after completing 14 days of compulsory hotel quarantine, ABC News said.
Australian territories and states will get more vaccines soon, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Monday.
China has administered more than 1 billion vaccines, health officials said.
China delivered more than 20 million doses Saturday - bringing the number of shots administered nationwide to 1.01 billion, data from the National Health Commission shows.
Indonesia is experiencing a rise in cases one month after the Eid al-Fitr holiday. Authorities said they detected the more contagious Delta variant as more than 12,000 daily infections were reported for three consecutive days.
"The number of new cases has also increased by 112% in the past four weeks while after the long Eid al-Fitr holiday last year it was only 93.11%," pandemic task force representative Wiku Adisasmito said in The Star.
Vietnam has received a delivery of 500,000 Sinopharm vaccines from China, health officials said Sunday. Vietnam is accelerating vaccinations.
The government granted emergency use approval to China's Sinopharm vaccine early June.
Malaysia aims to boost its immunization rate to 400,000 a day starting August to achieve an 80% herd immunity by September.
Khairy Jamaluddin, national immunization program coordinating minister, said the government was aiming for a maximum inoculation capacity of 300,000 a day starting July.
"I'm confident we can achieve our target of immunizing 80% of the population by the third quarter of the year instead of in December," the New Straits Times quoted Jamaluddin as saying.
The Philippines signed its largest supply deal for vaccines this year, acquiring 40 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, task force member Carlito Galvez Jr said Sunday.
"The massive procurement positions the Philippines closer to reaching widespread immunity. The government targets achieving herd immunity, or vaccinating 70 million Filipinos by the end of the year," Galvez said, according to Rappler News.
Top health officials in Singapore are skeptical about the safety and effectiveness of vaccines produced by China's Sinovac, even as the city-state began administering the vaccines last week, The New York Times reported.
India reported 58,419 new cases over the past 24 hours Sunday - the lowest daily figure in almost three months, health authorities said.
The number of cases in the country has risen to almost 30 million with 386,713 deaths, Reuters reported.
Worldwide, 178 million cases have been reported with 3.86 million deaths.
