In China, the country's increasing Delta variant outbreak has rattled Wuhan, the original source of the virus, forcing officials to impose a citywide testing as the government scrambles to contain the city's first reported local cases in more than one year.
China is battling hard with its worst pandemic in months, with more than 300 cases detected in more than two dozen cities across the country.
In Australia, Victoria state declared it will enforce a one-week lockdown as the country grapples with an outbreak of the more transmissible Delta variant.
Sydney is nearing its seventh week of a nine-week lockdown. Authorities reported five fatalities and a record 261 cases in the past 24 hours.
In Indonesia, the country has reached a grim milestone as over 100,000 people have perished from the virus, becoming the second Asian nation to surpass that threshold.
After weeks of exceeding the world's tally of daily fatalities, Southeast Asia's biggest economy added 1,746 deaths Thursday, health officials said, bringing its total number to 100,635.
In the Philippines, a total of 47 Delta variant infections have been detected in nine cities in the National Capital Region, health authorities said Thursday.
So far, the Philippines' total number of Delta cases is 215: 165 local cases, 48 returning overseas Filipinos workers, while three are undergoing confirmation to determine if these are local infections.
Over in Japan, the government warned Wednesday that infections were on the rise at an unprecedented rate as new cases reach a record high in the capital city Tokyo, overshadowing the Olympics and adding to worries over the government's handling of the crisis.
According to Japanese Health Minister Norhisa Tamura, the Delta variant was seen as the culprit in a spread of infections that is "unseen in the past."
In Thailand, health authorities reported that they have 20,920 new infections and 160 more deaths over the past 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry reported Thursday.
Officials said there were 20,657 cases in the general population and 261 among prison inmates.
Worldwide, there are currently 200 million cases of the virus, with 4.26 million deaths.
