HONG KONG, April 13 (Xinhua) -- The following are the latest developments of the COVID-19 pandemic in Asia-Pacific countries.

NEW DELHI -- India's health ministry Monday said the death toll due to COVID-19 in India rose to 308 and the total number of confirmed cases in the country reached 9,152.

"As on 8:00 a.m. (local time) today 308 deaths related to COVID-19 have been recorded in the country," said the information released by the ministry.

This is a jump of 35 deaths and an increase of 796 cases since Sunday morning.

According to ministry officials, so far 857 people have been discharged from hospitals after showing improvement.

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="900"] Customers check out at a supermarket in Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, Japan, April 8, 2020. (Xinhua/Du Xiaoyi)[/caption]

TOKYO -- Tokyo confirmed 91 new cases of COVID-19 as of Monday afternoon, local media reported, pushing the total number of COVID-19 cases to 2,159 in the Japanese capital.

It is the first time the daily increase of Tokyo has fallen below 100 since last Tuesday. So far the highest daily record was 197 on Saturday.

According to officials, the numbers of young patients and those with no clear infection routes are on the rise.

Across the country, the number of infections has climbed to 7,545 as of Monday afternoon.

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="900"] Photo taken on April 6, 2020 shows a social distancing sign on the ground in a shopping mall in Canberra, Australia. (Xinhua/Liu Changchang)[/caption]

CANBERRA -- Australia's fight against COVID-19 has achieved a new progress, with fewer than 50 cases confirmed between Sunday and Monday but it is too early to decide on lifting the restrictive rules, health officials said.

According to the Department of Health there had been 6,322 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Australia as of Monday morning, an increase of 33 cases from Sunday morning.

It represents an increase of only 0.5 percent, a recent record-low for Australia.

However, Chief Medical Officer Brendan Murphy warned that the figure could be misleading because of a downtrend in Australia's testing rate over the four-day Easter weekend.

"It is too early to relax restrictions at the moment," Murphy said.

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="900"] Staff members spray disinfectant along a street in Shiberghan city, capital of Jawzjan province, Afghanistan, April 5, 2020. (Xinhua/Mohammad Jan Aria)[/caption]

KABUL -- A total of 58 new positive cases of the COVID-19 had been confirmed in Afghanistan, bringing the total number of cases in the country to 665, Wahidullah Mayar, a spokesman for the Public Health Ministry, said here Monday.

Talking to reporters, Mayar said that 13 new cases of the  COVID-10 were detected in Kabul, 28 in Kandahar and the remaining in other parts of the country.

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="900"] Chinese experts check a COVID-19 patient's situation in Lao government-designated Mittaphab Hospital (Hospital 150) in Vientiane, Laos, April 11, 2020.(Chinese anti-epidemic medical expert team/Handout via Xinhua)[/caption]

VIENTIANE -- No new COVID-19 case was reported in Laos on Monday, with its total number remaining at 19.

The total number of COVID-19 case in Laos remained at 19, as no new case was confirmed, Director General of Department of Communicable Disease Control under the Lao Ministry of Health, Rattanaxay Phetsavanh, told a press conference here on Monday.

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="900"] A staff member disinfects the hand of a voter at a polling station in Seoul, South Korea, April 10, 2020. (Photo by Lee Sang-ho/Xinhua)[/caption]

SEOUL -- South Korea reported 25 more cases of the COVID-19 compared to 24 hours ago as of midnight Monday local time, raising the total number of infections to 10,537.

The daily caseload hovered around 30 in recent days, with 39 on Thursday, 27 on Friday, 30 on Saturday and 32 on Sunday each. Of the new cases, 16 were imported from overseas.

Three more deaths were confirmed, lifting the death toll to 217. The total fatality rate came in at 2.06 percent.

A total of 79 more patients were discharged from quarantine after making full recovery, pulling up the combined number to 7,447.

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="900"] People observe social distancing while entering a supermarket in Wellington, New Zealand, April 11, 2020. (Xinhua/Guo Lei)[/caption]

WELLINGTON -- A fifth person has died of COVID-19 in New Zealand, the Ministry of Health said on Monday.

New Zealand reported 15 new confirmed and four new probable cases of COVID-19 on Monday, bringing the total number of confirmed and probable infections to 1,349 in the country.

Five people have died from COVID-19 so far, most of whom were elderly, and 546 people had recovered, Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield said at a press conference.■