Young girls taking a break on their bicycles as they pass by murals encouraging residents to wear masks amidsts the Covid-19 pandemic in Surabaya on Sunday (Oct 25, 2020). In South-East Asia, Indonesia surpassed the Philippines last week as the worst-hit nation and now has more than 385,000 infections. - AFP
SINGAPORE, Oct 25 (Reuters): Asia surpassed 10 million infections of the Covid-19 (coronavirus) on Saturday night, the second-heaviest regional toll in the world, according to a Reuters tally, as cases continue to mount in India despite a slowdown and sharp declines elsewhere.
Behind only Latin America, Asia accounts for about one-fourth of the global caseload of 42.1 million of the virus. With over 163,000 deaths, the region accounts for some 14% of the global Covid-19 toll.
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