At least three people died and two more went missing as heavy rain and flash floods hit parts of Afghanistan's eastern Paktia province, the state-run Bakhtar news agency reported Thursday.
India recorded 18,815 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, taking the total tally to 43,585,554, showed data released by the federal health ministry on Friday.
Three people were injured and two others missing at a fire of three fishing boats in South Korea's southern resort island of Jeju, Yonhap news agency reported Thursday.
Health officials in the Chinese cities of Beijing and Xi'an are stepping up measures to contain outbreaks of the coronavirus as new cases of the Omicron subvariant BA.5 were successively confirmed this week.
In Japan, COVID-19 cases are increasing again after a period of decline. On Wednesday, the nationwide count came to 45,000, or double the figure a week earlier.
