Asia

In Thailand, authorities announced that they will tighten border controls after detecting three mutated infections of the SARS-CoV-2 virus first detected in South Africa. These infections are community transmission and stem from illegal border crossings.

In the capital, Bangkok, authorities banned workers from moving out of temporary housing for construction workers after discovering 11 houses were among 30 outbreaks in the city.

In Japan, as of May 24, a total of 10 provinces and cities are within the scope of applying the state of emergency. As expected, the state of emergency in Okinawa will be in effect until June 20, longer than the state of emergency being applied in 9 other provinces and cities.

In the context that the epidemic has not shown any signs of abating soon, the Japanese Government is considering the possibility of extending the state of emergency in 9 provinces and cities, including the capital Tokyo and the provinces of Hokkaido, Aichi, Kyoto, and Osaka. Hyogo, Okayama, Hiroshima, Fukuoka, as this measure is about to expire on May 31. 

To balance health safety and people’s livelihood, the Malaysian Government decided from May 25 to June 7 to tighten disease prevention and control measures, including the regulation of 80% of public employees. and 40% of private sector workers work from home, cutting operation time of the vast majority of economic sectors, stipulating that people can only shop for a maximum of 2 hours.

In addition, Malaysian police increased inspection activities to comply with anti-epidemic regulations. In the past 3 days, the number of checkpoints set up across the country has reached 441 to check people’s compliance with regulations related to interstate and inter-county travel.

Senior Malaysian Health Ministry official, Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah also encouraged people to wear 2 masks at a time in public, high-risk places such as hospitals.

In Kandal province bordering the capital Phnom Penh (Cambodia), the local government has sealed off a village in Sampow commune, Koh Thom district and upgraded the management of the "Yellow and Red Areas" to control the epidemic. In Kampong Thom, authorities have just detected 22 new cases of Covid-19 through rapid testing, bringing the total number of infections in this province to 158 people.

With more than 1.7 million cases and 49,000 deaths, Indonesia is currently the country hardest hit by the Covid-19 epidemic in Southeast Asia. In recent days, up to 42 medical staff have contracted Covid-19. These people treated 13 Filipino sailors infected with a variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus with sign B.1617.2 first discovered in India.

These sailors were on board the Philippine-flagged Hilma Bulker, which transported refined sugar from India and docked in Central Java on April 25. The functional forces are actively tracing about 140 other medical staff who have direct contact or close contact with the group of sailors.

Europe

British health officials cited the results of a study by the British Public Health Agency, saying that if the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine is given at twice the normal dose, the ability to fight the Indian variant of the SARS virus- CoV-2 will be up to 88%.

According to UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock, this groundbreaking discovery will help improve the effectiveness of the UK vaccination programme. He hopes that people’s lives will soon return to normal in the next few months.

Meanwhile, the director of the Russian National Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology Gamalei Alexander Ginzburg said that people who have been vaccinated against Covid-19 but still become infected will have less consequences of post-menopausal syndrome. Covid.

According to Alexander Ginzburg, in the case of vaccinated people, the entire course of Covid-19 disease occurs only in the nasopharynx, while post-Covid syndrome occurs when the pathogen enters the lungs or spreads throughout the body. body.