India has confirmed more than 63,000 new cases of the coronavirus, an increase of over 8,000 from the previous day but still far fewer than it was reporting a month ago, when the virus was at its peak in the country.

The Health Ministry reported 63,509 new cases on Wednesday, raising India’s total to more than 7.2 million, second in the world behind the U.S. The ministry also reported 730 fatalities in the past 24 hours, raising the death toll to 110,586. The country was seeing more than 1,000 deaths per day last month.

According to the Health Ministry, India’s average number of daily cases dropped to 72,576 last week from 92,830 during the week of Sept. 9-15, when the virus peaked. Over the last month, the country has been seeing a trend of declining cases on a week-to-week basis.

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, residents wearing face masks to help curb the spread of the coronavirus line up for the COVID-19 test in Qingdao in east China's Shandong province on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2020. China says it has carried out more than 4.2 million tests in the northern port city of Qingdao, with no new cases of coronavirus found among the almost 2 million sets of results received. (Li ZihengXinhua via AP)

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, residents wearing face masks to help curb the spread of the coronavirus line up for the COVID-19 test in Qingdao in east China's Shandong province on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2020. China says it has carried out more than 4.2 million tests in the northern port city of Qingdao, with no new cases of coronavirus found among the almost 2 million sets of results received. (Li ZihengXinhua via AP)

On Tuesday, India registered 55,342 new cases, its lowest single-day tally since mid-August.

In other developments in the Asia-Pacific region:

— China says it has carried out more than 4.2 million tests in the northern port city of Qingdao, with no new cases of the coronavirus among the almost 2 million results received. The city has reported a total of 12 cases, six with symptoms and six without, since the new outbreak was first spotted over the weekend at a hospital. China on Wednesday reported 27 new cases, including 13 of local transmission and 14 brought from outside the country. The local cases included seven that had been shifted to confirmed from asymptomatic. It wasn’t immediately clear whether any of those involved cases reported in Qingdao. China has reported a total of 4,634 deaths among 85,611 confirmed cases of COVID-19.

Police officers check vehicles at roadblock to ensure that people abide by the movement control order on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020. Malaysia will restrict movements in its biggest city Kuala Lumpur, neighboring Selangor state and the administrative capital of Putrajaya from Wednesday to curb a sharp rise in coronavirus cases. (AP PhotoVincent Thian)

Police officers check vehicles at roadblock to ensure that people abide by the movement control order on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020. Malaysia will restrict movements in its biggest city Kuala Lumpur, neighboring Selangor state and the administrative capital of Putrajaya from Wednesday to curb a sharp rise in coronavirus cases. (AP PhotoVincent Thian)

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Police and army officers check vehicles at a roadblock to ensure that people abide by a movement control order in downtown Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020. Malaysia will restrict movements in its biggest city Kuala Lumpur, neighboring Selangor state and the administrative capital of Putrajaya from Wednesday to curb a sharp rise in coronavirus cases. (AP PhotoVincent Thian)

Police and army officers check vehicles at a roadblock to ensure that people abide by a movement control order in downtown Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020. Malaysia will restrict movements in its biggest city Kuala Lumpur, neighboring Selangor state and the administrative capital of Putrajaya from Wednesday to curb a sharp rise in coronavirus cases. (AP PhotoVincent Thian)