COVID-19: “The 145 Days Pandemic”- WORLD & ASEAN – HA NOI, Viet Nam- No new COVID-19 cases reported for four days in a row.
.Medical workers arrange COVID-19 test tubes at Hà Nội’s Đống Đa District Medical Centre. — VNA/VNS Photo
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BRUNEI- Brunei records one more COVID-19 case
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After recording one confirmed COVID-19 case on Saturday, Brunei Darussalam yesterday added another new case, bringing the current total to 138.
Case 138 is a 50-year-old woman, who is the family contact of Case 33. She was first tested on March 13, after Case 33 was detected. Her results came back as negative. A follow-up test was conducted on April 18, and this time she tested positive.
She does not have any recent travel history and exhibits no symptoms of infection. Her case is under investigation.
These details were provided by Minister of Health Dato Seri Setia Dr Haji Mohd Isham bin Haji Jaafar during the daily press conference for the latest updates on the COVID-19 outbreak. He also stated, “Two active COVID-19 cases recovered yesterday, bringing the total number of recovered cases to 115.
“The number of active cases being treated at the National Isolation Centre is 22, where two are still in a critical condition, requiring heart-lung machine (ECMO) and respiratory assistance. The rest are in a stable condition.”
“Currently, 125 individuals are undergoing quarantine in accordance with the Infectious Diseases Act (Chapter 204) and 2,408 individuals have completed their quarantine.”
The minister added that in the past 24 hours, 218 samples were tested for the SARS-CoV-2 virus, bringing the total number of laboratory tests conducted since January to 11,472. On the recurring cases, the minister said, “Two more have been detected, while one patient has been discharged from the National Isolation Centre.
“This brings the total number of recurring cases to 18, of which 12 individuals are still undergoing further examination and testing.”
In its breakdown of COVID-19 cases in the country, healthinfo.gov.bn revealed that the Brunei-Muara District has 111 cases, the Belait District 21 and the Tutong District, six.
More updates and information can be obtained from the Ministry of Health’s (MoH) official website at www.moh.gov.bn, or the Health Advice Line at 148, or the web application at healthinfo.gov.bn.
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MANILA, Philippines- COVID-19 CASES BREAKDOWN (PH)
Ex-Senator Heherson Alvarez succumbs to COVID-19.
Philippines acts to avert public health crisis in jails
Philippine officials are scrambling to head off a public health crisis as they try to contain the spread of the coronavirus through the country’s notoriously overcrowded prisons.
Nine inmates and nine staff members at a city jail in the capital Manila have tested positive for Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus.
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There are close to 134,000 inmates in the Philippines. Mr Solda said the national congestion rate is currently at 534 per cent.- Dana Batnag For The Straits Times In Manila
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SINGAPORE- 1,426 new coronavirus cases in S’pore in record daily high
SINGAPORE – The Ministry of Health (MOH) has preliminarily confirmed 1,426 cases of Covid-19 infection in Singapore as of Monday noon (April 20), the single highest daily spike in numbers since the outbreak began in January.
Among these, 16 are Singaporeans and permanent residents, while the majority continue to be foreign workers living in dormitories.
MOH said it is still working through the details of the cases and will provide further updates on Monday night.
This brings the total number of cases in Singapore to 8,014.
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HA NOI, Viet Nam- No new COVID-19 cases reported for four days in a row.
Medical workers arrange COVID-19 test tubes at Hà Nội’s Đống Đa District Medical Centre. — VNA/VNS Photo
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HÀ NỘI — For the fourth day running, not a single new case of COVID-19 has been detected in Việt Nam.
The total amount of people who have contracted the disease since the very first case in mid-January remains at 268.
Of those, 202 have made a full recovery and have been given the all-clear.
Although one of those cases, a 44-year-old woman from Hà Nội, has tested positive for a second time. She is currently being treated at the National Hospital of Tropical Diseases.
Authorities are tracking and tracing people she came in close contact with after she was previously discharged.
Out of the total amount of cases detected so far, 160 are imported from another country, either carried through a foreigner visiting Việt Nam, or a Vietnamese national returning home.
The remaining 108 cases are all locally transmitted.
There are currently 66 people being treated in hospitals for coronavirus, mostly in Hà Nội.
Twenty of those have tested negative at least once.
As of Monday, nearly 63,000 people are being quarantined nationwide – at hospitals, concentrated quarantine camps, or in home isolation.
Globally, more than 2.4 million cases of COVID-19 were reported with 624,713 patients given all clear. — VNS.
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