An employee, left, of a department store takes the temperature of a customer at the entrance of the shop amid concerns due to the COVID-19 in Jakarta on June 9, 2020. (BAY ISMOYO / AFP)

DUBAI / ANKARA / MUSCAT / JERUSALEM / AMMAN / RIYADH / NEW DELHI — Indonesia has resumed domestic flights for all passengers provided airlines operate at 70 percent capacity and follow strict rules brought into force on Tuesday, when the country announced its biggest daily rise in cases of the novel coronavirus.

Indonesia’s Transport Minister Budi Karya Sumadi said the new regulations for flights followed discussions with airlines, the country’s COVID-19 taskforce and the health ministry.

“Transportation management in the era of the new normal hinges on health aspects,” Sumadi told an online news conference. “We hope that people stay productive, but safe.”

All travellers will be required to wear masks, maintain physical distancing and present a recent health certificate to show they have tested negative for the novel coronavirus, under the regulations that Novie Riyanto, a transport ministry official, told Reuters came into effect on Tuesday.

Flights have been restricted in Indonesia in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, but in recent weeks migrant workers returning home and those travelling for work in exempt sectors, such as health and security, have been allowed to fly.

The airline Lion Air will resume domestic flights on Wednesday.

The Indonesian capital began easing social restrictions last week, even though coronavirus cases continue to rise across the world’s fourth most populous nation.

Indonesia has recorded 33,076 positive coronavirus infections and 1,923 COVID-19 deaths. On Tuesday, it announced 1,043 new cases, the highest daily increase so far.

A man wearing Personal Protective Equipment sanitizes Ambience mall in New Delhi on June 8, 2020. (PHOTO / AFP)

India

Indian federal authorities on Monday struck down an order by the Delhi city government to reserve hospital beds for residents as the country reported a record number of coronavirus infections in a single day.

The chief minister of Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal, had said the city would soon run out of beds if COVID-19 patients kept coming from across India to its hospitals, drawing criticism that he was being unethical.Delhi lieutenant governor Anil Baijal, who represents the federal government, said denying treatment simply because someone was not a resident of the capital would be legally impermissible.

Delhi has also stopped hotels from reopening as it might want to convert them into temporary hospitals if there is a big jump in cases. Health experts say India’s peak could still be weeks away, if not months.

India's federal health ministry Tuesday morning said that 331 new deaths due to COVID-19, besides fresh 9,987 positive cases were reported during the past 24 hours across the country, taking the number of deaths to 7,466 and total cases to 266,598.

This is the highest spike both in terms of deaths and fresh cases in the country so far.

"As on 8:00 am (local time) Tuesday, 7,466 deaths related to novel coronavirus have been recorded in the country," reads information released by the ministry.

Turkey

Turkey reported 989 new coronavirus cases on Monday, raising the total number in the country to 171,121, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said.

"There is an increase in the number of cases, but it is easy to contain if the rules of wearing face masks and social distancing are obeyed," Koca tweeted.

Meanwhile, 19 more fatalities were reported, bringing the death toll to 4,711, while 3,411 patients recovered in the past 24 hours, raising the total recoveries to 141,380, according to the minister.

Turkey conducted 39,361 tests for COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the overall number of tests to 2,377,954, he said, adding 625 patients are being treated at the intensive care units and 261 intubated.

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Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia registered on Monday 3,369 new coronavirus cases, bringing the accumulated infections to 105,283.

The recovered cases reached 74,524 after the registration of 1,707 new recoveries.

The death toll also increased to 746 with the reporting of 34 fatalities in the last 24 hours.

There are currently 30,013 active cases, of which 1,632 are critical.

Israel

Israel’s internal security service Shin Bet has halted its cell-phone tracking of coronavirus carriers, an official said on Tuesday, citing the success of alternatives to the controversial method of containing contagions.

Circumventing parliament in March as the coronavirus spread, the Israeli cabinet approved emergency regulations that enabled the use of the Shin Bet technology, usually deployed for anti-terrorism. Privacy watchdog groups have challenged the practice in court as lawmakers considered ratifying it.

An Israeli official said the tracking was stopped following a ministerial meeting on the coronavirus on Monday at which Shin Bet director Nadav Argaman argued that the method was not required as infections taper off under other counter-measures.

“This (tracking) will be renewed only if there is a big outbreak, at which point snap legislation would be required in parliament,” said the official, who requested anonymity.

Israel - with a population of 9 million - has reported 18,091 coronavirus cases and 299 deaths. A limited resurgence prompted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday to put the brakes on moves to reverse closures of schools and businesses.

Iraq

Iraq's Health Ministry on Monday confirmed 1,115 new COVID-19 cases, as the total number of infections climbed to 13,481 in the country.

Meanwhile, 24 more people died from the coronavirus during the day, bringing the death toll to 370, while 5,572 patients have recovered, according to the statement.

The new cases were detected after 8,927 testing kits were used across the country during the past 24 hours. A total of 311,980 tests have been carried out since the outbreak of the disease in Iraq.

Qatar

Qatar's Health Ministry on Monday announced 1,368 new infections of COVID-19, increasing the total number of confirmed cases in the Gulf state to 70,158.

"Some 1,597 people recovered, bringing the total number of recoveries to 45,935, while three others died, raising the fatalities up to 57," the official Qatar News Agency reported, quoting a statement by the ministry.

It revealed that infections had doubled due to people's gatherings and visits, and ignoring of preventive measures recommended by the government, the most important of which is staying at home and maintaining social distancing.

A total of 259,646 persons in Qatar have undergone lab tests for COVID-19 so far, it added.

Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi will extend by one week a ban on movement in and out of the emirate and between its major cities introduced on June 2, the local government media office said on Monday.

The ban applies to all residents of Abu Dhabi, the largest member of the United Arab Emirates federation, with exceptions made for those working in vital sectors.

Movement within, but not between, the mentioned cities of al-Ain, al-Dhafra and Abu Dhabi is allowed outside the hours of a nightly curfew already in force to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus.

The United Arab Emirates

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Monday announced 568 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total confirmed cases in the country to 39,376.

UAE's Ministry of Health and Prevention said in a statement that the new cases of many nationalities are all in stable condition and receiving medical treatment.

Meanwhile, 469 more patients have fully recovered from the virus, taking the tally of the UAE's recoveries to 22,275, according to the ministry.

Kuwait

Kuwait on Monday reported 662 new cases of COVID-19 and five more deaths, raising the tally of infections to 32,510 and the death toll to 269, the Health Ministry said in a statement.

Currently, 10,999 patients are receiving treatment, including 166 in ICU, according to the statement.

The ministry also announced the recovery of 1,037 more patients, raising the total recoveries in the country to 21,242.

Oman

The Omani Ministry of Health announced on Monday 604 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number in the country to 17,486.

According to a statement issued by the ministry, all new cases, including 344 Omanis, are related to community contact.

Meanwhile, 342 more have recovered from the virus, bringing the total recoveries to 3,793, while the death toll rose to 81 after six fatalities were added, the statement said.

Lebanon

Lebanon's number of COVID-19 infections increased on Monday by 19 cases to 1,350, while the death toll remained unchanged at 30, the National News Agency reported.

Lebanon has been conducting random tests all over the country to follow up on new infections.

Jordan

Jordan said on Monday that it might resume imposing a comprehensive curfew every weekend and restrictions on movement if local cases of coronavirus continue to rise.

Jordan's Minister of State for Media Affairs Amjad Adaileh said at a press conference that Jordan reported several local cases of COVID-19 after the curfew was eased earlier this week, which is an indication that the threat of coronavirus remains.

"The public needs to adhere to instructions and abide by the public health measures," he added.

Also, King Abdullah II of Jordan on Monday stressed the importance of continuous precaution measures against COVID-19, to pave the way for domestic economic recovery in the short term, according to a Royal Court statement obtained by Xinhua.

On Monday, 23 cases of coronavirus were reported in the country, bringing the total number of cases to 831, Health Minister Saad Jaber said.

Singapore

Singapore's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported 386 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, bringing the total confirmed cases in the country to 38,296.

Of the new cases, two are in the community while 384 are Work Permit holders residing in dormitories, including in factory-converted dormitories.

Singapore expects to deliver the first batch of portable contact-tracing devices in the latter half of this month.

The device, to be distributed to everyone in the country of 5.7 million, will not be used for location tracking, Foreign Affairs Minister Vivian Balakrishnan said in a briefing on Monday.

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Japan

Japanese wages fell in April for the first time in four months as businesses shut and millions of workers were forced on leave amid a nationwide state of emergency over the coronavirus. Cash earnings slipped 0.6 percent from a year earlier, labor ministry data showed. Economists had predicted a 1 percent drop.

Pakistan

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases will continue to rise in the country, and a peak will be witnessed by the end of July or beginning of August.

In a televised address on Monday, the prime minister said that there might be difficult times ahead for the country if the people keep on taking COVID-19 as common flu, and do not follow the standard operating procedures (SOPs) formed by the government to control the spread of the disease.

Khan urged the Pakistani people to follow the SOPs to slow down the spread of the disease as the option of locking down the whole country is not practicable in Pakistan.

The prime minister's address came after the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases hit 100,000 in the country. The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Pakistan has risen to 103,671 with 2,067 deaths, according to the data updated by the country's health ministry Monday.

South Korea

South Korea reported 38 more cases of the COVID-19 compared to 24 hours ago as of 0:00 a.m. Tuesday local time, raising the total number of infections to 11,852.

The daily caseload hovered below 40 for two straight days. Of the new cases, three were imported from overseas, lifting the combined figure to 1,300.

Small cluster infections were still found linked to religious gatherings, night spots, a table tennis facility, a distribution center, an amusement park and a health product retailer in the metropolitan area.

One more death was confirmed, leaving the death toll at 274. The total fatality rate stood at 2.31 percent.

A total of 26 more patients were discharged from quarantine after making full recovery, pulling up the combined number to 10,589. The total recovery rate was 89.3 percent.

Mongolia 

Mongolia reported no new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, with the national tally remaining at 194, the National Center for Communicable Diseases (NCCD) said Tuesday.

Ten more patients have recovered from the disease, taking the total to 85, the NCCD's head Dulmaa Nyamkhuu said at a daily news conference.

In addition, two suspected cases have been reported in the country and isolated at the NCCD, Nyamkhuu said.

Australia

Australia has recorded only two new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, with no cases of community transmission, according to Health Minister Greg Hunt.

Both of the new cases were recently returned overseas travelers in hotel quarantine in New South Wales (NSW), leaving the other seven states and territories with zero new cases.

As of Tuesday afternoon there have been 7,267 confirmed cases of the virus nationally, up from 7,265 on Monday. Two patients are being treated for the virus in intensive care units (ICUs), and the national death toll has remained at 102 since May 24.

However, health authorities have warned that community transmission could spike after tens of thousands of people attended Black Lives Matters protests across the country.

New Zealand

The Ministry of Health reported no cases of COVID-19 in New Zealand on Tuesday, the first day of epidemic Alert Level 1, 18 days since the last new case was reported in the country.

"We are confident we have eliminated community transmission of the virus here in New Zealand," Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield told a press conference.

Border restrictions have increased although people's lives are back to normal domestically, Bloomfield said.

Thailand 

Thailand on Tuesday reported two new coronavirus cases and no new deaths, bringing its total to 3,121 confirmed cases, of which 58 were fatalities.

The two cases were quarantined Thai nationals returning from Saudi Arabia and the Netherlands, said Panprapa Yongtrakul, a spokeswoman for the government's COVID-19 Administration Centre.

Thailand has recorded no new local transmissions for 15 days in a row, while 2,973 patients have recovered.

Kyrgyzstan 

Kyrgyzstan added 23 new COVID-19 cases Tuesday, raising the total number of infections to 2,055.

Deputy Health Minister Nurbolot Usenbaev told a news briefing that one more virus-related death was registered in the country last night, raising the nationwide death toll to 24.

Among the newly infected three are medical workers. The total number of infected medical staff is 403, including 293 recoveries, Usenbaev added.

The official said 38 people recovered from the disease and were discharged from hospitals in the past day, raising the tally of recoveries to 1,483.

Currently, 548 people remain hospitalized and two are in intensive care.

In total, 2,009 people who contacted infected patients are under medical observation and another 8,592 are in home quarantine under the supervision of doctors.

Kyrgyzstan conducted 2,431 tests in the past 24 hours. 

Afghanistan 

Afghanistan on Tuesday reported 542 newly confirmed COVID-19 cases, taking the country's total to 21,459, the country's Ministry of Public Health said.

Within the past 24 hours, 1,225 tests were conducted, and 542 were positive cases, the ministry said in a statement.

Up to 384 deaths have been recorded since the outbreak of the pandemic in the country in February, an increase of 15 within the past 24 hours.

Out of the total infected people 2,651 people have recovered, including 480 who showed improvement and were discharged from hospitals since early Monday.

Wearing face mask in public became mandatory as of Saturday as the community transmission of COVID-19 has been increasing throughout the country.

Vietnam 

Vietnam is considering the resumption of some international flights to and from destinations that have had no novel coronavirus cases in the past 30 days, according to a statement on the government’s website.

Vietnam Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc directed the National Steering Committee for Coronavirus Prevention and Control to report on international destinations considered to be safe, according to the post. No time frame was provided.

The government last month said it was planning to allow international visitors to travel only to some islands. The Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang is seeking government approval to permit the resumption of foreign tourists to its island of Phu Quoc.

Bangladesh 

Bangladesh on Tuesday reported largest daily increase in cases and deaths due to COVID-19.

Professor Nasima Sultana, a senior Health Ministry official, told an online media briefing in Dhaka that "another 45 COVID-19 deaths including 33 men and 12 women were confirmed in a 24-hour period, bringing the total number of fatalities in the country since March 18 to 975."

Bangladesh reported the highest 42 deaths of COVID-19 patients in a day on June 7 and again on Monday.

According to the official, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases increased to 71,675, with the biggest daily rise of 3,171 cases reported in the last 24 hours on Tuesday.

Bangladesh earlier recorded the highest 2,911 cases in a 24-hour period on June 2.

According to the official, 14,664 samples were tested in the last 24 hours in 55 labs across Bangladesh.

During the last 24 hours, she said 777 more patients were released from hospitals and clinics, bringing the number of recovered patients in the country to 15,337.

Malaysia

Malaysian health officials reported seven new coronavirus cases on Tuesday, taking the cumulative total to 8,336.

The health ministry also reported no new deaths, leaving the toll at 117.

Laos 

The last COVID-19 patient in Laos has recovered from the disease and was discharged from hospital in Lao capital Vientiane on Tuesday.

The patient was permitted to return home on Tuesday after being tested negative for the virus in the second round of testing, the Center of Information and Education for Health under the Lao Ministry of Health said in its press release.

The last COVID-19 patient is an 18-year-old man living in Lao capital Vientiane, who was confirmed as the country's eighth case of COVID-19 and treated in the government-designated Mittaphab Hospital (Hospital 150) since March 28.

As of Tuesday, Laos has not reported any new confirmed COVID-19 cases for 58 consecutive days. All the 19 COVID-19 patients in Laos have recovered from the disease and were discharged from the hospitals.

Laos announced its first two confirmed COVID-19 cases on March 24.