COVID-19 PANDEMIC: ASEAN UPDATES: Indonesia records 857 new COVID-19 cases, 43 new deaths
Indonesia rose by 857 within one day
‘The 2019 Plague” Day 199
Brunei records no new COVID-19 case
Cambodia’s COVID-19 positives rise to 128, three active cases currently
Cambodia has reported two more cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).
The Ministry of Health in a news release this morning announced this and said that the two new cases are both Cambodian men, aged 22 and 29, from Kampong Cham province.
They returned from Indonesia on a direct flight on June 12 and were tested positive for the deadly virus a day after.
They were admitted to Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital in Phnom Penh.
The other 44 passengers, including a four-year-old girl, were tested negative, but put under 14-days mandatory quarantine.
With these two new positives, the total confirmed cases in Cambodia rose to 128, including 57 Cambodians, 40 French, 13 Malaysians, five British, three Chinese, three Vietnamese, two Americans, two Indonesians, two Canadians, and one Belgian.
Of them, 125 or 97.65 percent have been cured successfully.
The first case was detected in Preah Sihanoukville in late January.
There were no cases for almost six weeks with the number staying at 122 until April before the new cases were reported in May n June.
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Indonesia records 857 new COVID-19 cases, 43 new deaths
JAKARTA (Xinhua) – The COVID-19 cases in Indonesia rose by 857 within one day to 38,277, with the death toll adding by 43 to 2,134, Health Ministry official Achmad Yurianto said at a press conference on Sunday.
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MALAYSIA- Only 718 active Covid-19 cases identified among students, staff of tahfiz centres to date
PUTRAJAYA: Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said only 718 active cases of Covid-19 infection among tahfiz students and staff have been identified to date.
He said only 4.1%, of Covid-19 screening and tests, involving 17,477 samples from 429 tahfiz centres nationwide had been found to be positive cases.
He reiterated society should not have a negative perspective on the spread of Covid-19 among tahfiz students, he said religious school or tahfiz students were one of the target groups identified by the Health Ministry.
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Myanmar extends closure of preschools to June 30
The Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement has extended the closure of all preschools and nurseries across the country until June 30 to protect children from COVID-19, a senior official said.
Daw San San Aye, director general of the Department of Social Welfare, said the National Central Committee for Prevention, Control and Treatment of COVID-19, had decided on June 12 to order all voluntary preschools, private preschools, and private residential nurseries to remain closed until June 30.
The government first ordered the closure of preschools and nurseries on March 16, a week before the Health and Sports Ministry announced the country’s first two COVID-19 cases.
“In general, we will reopen all preschools and nurseries when primary schools under the Ministry of Education have reopened,” Daw San San Aye said. “We will issue another announcement when preschools and nurseries can reopen.”
The department plans to give cloth face masks to children aged six months to 5 when preschools and nurseries reopen.
“They will be free. We will provide them for all the children attending preschools,” Daw San San Aye said. “Private schools and nurseries are excluded because they can afford to buy their own.”
She said the department will provide suggestions on radio and television on how parents can protect children at home from COVID-19.
“We will soon release a short video related to child care starring singer and actress Chit Thu Wai,” she said.
The department said it operates 137 preschools and one residential nursery.
It also supervises 1955 voluntary preschools, 944 private preschools, and eight private residential nurseries.
As of June 14, Myanmar had 261 COVID-19 cases, six deaths and 167 recoveries, according to the Health and Sports Ministry. Most of the recent cases were detected among quarantined workers who had returned from overseas.
Also, 76 Myanmar citizens who had returned to the country have tested positive for COVID-19, including 45 returning from India, 13 from Malaysia, eight from the United Arab Emirates, five from Bangladesh, two from Thailand, two from Italy, and one from China.
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