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.
Panama has confirmed its first case of monkeypox, in a 30-year-old man who is currently receiving medical attention, Minister of Health Luis Sucre announced Tuesday.
South Korea reported 19,371 new COVID-19 cases as of midnight Tuesday compared to 24 hours ago, raising the total number of infections to 18,433,359, the health authorities said Wednesday.
