ASEAN COVID-19, NEW VARIANTS & VACCINES: PART 2: MYANMAR TO VIETNAM- Here is the ASEAN status as of Wednesday 7am February 2 2021
The coronavirus COVID-19 is affecting 219 countries and territories around the world and 2 international conveyances.
COVID-19 infection crosses 103.77 million globally as deaths cross more than 2.24 million.
Deaths: 2,243,931:
Recovered: 75,476,665.
Here is the ASEAN status as of Wednesday, 7am, February 2, 2021
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MYANMAR
Myanmar reported +——– new cases, taking total to 140,145 and +—— new deaths, total is at 3,131 deaths. (No new updates due to blackout imposed)
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Myanmar launches nationwide C-19 vaccinations
A medical worker receives a dose of COVID-19 vaccine at the Yangon General Hospital in Yangon, Myanmar, Jan. 27, 2021. Myanmar launched a COVID-19 vaccination program across the country on Wednesday. The vaccination program started with medical staff who are working in the frontline in the country’s regions and states. (Xinhua/Zhang Dongqiang)Myanmar launched a COVID-19 vaccination programme across the country yesterday.
The vaccination programme started with medical staff who are working in the country’s frontline.
Myanmar recently received the first batch of 1.5 million doses of Covishield vaccine, which will be enough for 750,000 people.
Frontline health workers and volunteers are given priority to be inoculated followed by parliamentarians from tomorrow, according to a statement from the Health and Sports Ministry.Vaccines will be distributed to the public from February 5, the statement said.
The priorities will be given to the elderly, people with underlying diseases and people residing in the high density of population.
The vaccines will be given in two doses and the second dose will follow 28 days after the first shot.
According to the ministry, about 2 million doses of Covishield vaccine will arrive in the country in the first week of next month, followed by many more batches.
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Myanmar reported +281 new cases, taking total to 140,145 and +6 new deaths, total is at 3,131 deaths.
PHILIPPINES
The Philippines recorded +1,658 new cases, bringing the total to 527,272 with +58 new deaths, bringing total 10,807 deaths.
Red Cross eyes 2.2 million COVID-19 jabs from AstraZeneca, Moderna
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MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Red Cross is looking to purchase 2.2 million vaccines from western manufacturers, its chairman said Wednesday.
“I’ve ordered, if allowed, from big companies such as AstraZeneca two million [doses], Moderna 200,000 [doses],” Sen. Richard Gordon, also PRC chairman, said in Filipino during an interview with ABS-CBN’s Teleradyo. He added that the organization would enter talks with other companies as well.
Rules set by the COVID-19 task force require local governments and private entities to enter tripartite deals with the national government and pharmaceutical companies to acquire vaccines.
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Gordon early in January said PRC was in talks with Pfizer but noted that negotiations were in the early stages. He also said then that the organization was eyeing a “buy one, donate one” scheme to be implemented in its own vaccination program.
Last month, the senator said PRC would help administer vaccines to around a million Filipinos, noting the organization’s experience in administering other jabs, against diseases such as polio and measles, would help the national vaccination program.
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To date, only two vaccines have received emergency use authorization (EUA) from local regulators: AstraZeneca and Pfizer.
In a televised coronavirus task force meeting on Monday evening, Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr., also vaccine czar, said the government has already signed term sheets with five drugmakers, which will assure the country of up to 108 million vaccine doses.
But term sheets are non-binding agreements, meaning the government has yet to execute definitive supply agreements with pharmaceutical firms it is in talks with. Galvez said he expects to finalize vaccine agreements with pharmaceutical companies by mid-February.
With more than half a million infections and over 10,000 deaths, the Philippines has the second-worst outbreak in Southeast Asia. The country is looking to start its immunization program within the month.
— Bella Perez-Rubio with reports from Gaea Katreena Cabico and The STAR
SINGAPORE
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Reported +29 new cases, taking the total to 59,565 and 0 new death, tally now 29 deaths.
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THAILAND
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Reported +836 new cases, total at 19,618, +0 new death, total deaths stands at 77.
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VIETNAM
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Vietnam’s Ministry of Health had +33 new cases and a total of 1,850 cases, no new death, total remains at 35.
Source: world meters
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