COVID-19 PANDEMIC: ASEAN UPDATES: Thailand reports six new COVID-19 cases, all imported
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‘The 2019 Plague” Day 203
Thailand reports six new COVID-19 cases, all imported
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BANGKOK (BERNAMA) – Thailand reported six new Covid-19 cases, raising the total cases to 3,141 and no new deaths, Thai News Agency (TNA) reported. The recovery cases totalled 2,997 and 86 coronavirus patients are being treated at hospitals. The death toll remains at 58.
BRUNEI: No new case today
The Minister of Health Dato Seri Setia Dr Hj Mohammad Isham bin Hj Jaafar at the daily COVID-19 press briefing said that no new COVID-19 case in was recorded in Brunei today, maintaining the national tally at 141.
No active cases are being treated at the National Isolation Centre (NIC) in Tutong.
At this time, 17 individuals are currently undergoing quarantine in accordance to the Infectious Diseases Act (Chapter 204) and a total of 2,806 individuals have completed their quarantine and are in good condition.
There are 313 individuals that are undergoing mandatory self-isolation at monitoring centres provided by the Government for those who have just arrived in the country after traveling abroad. At present, a total of 2,419 individuals have completed their mandatory self-isolation at the monitoring centres.
In the past 24 hours, a total of 331 samples have been tested for the SARS-CoV2 virus, that brings the total number of laboratory tests conducted since January 2020 to 25,931 tests.
The minister also informed that 5 individuals has tested positive for the serology survey conducted and this number is likely to increase.
The serology survey is conducted to estimate the proportion the population in this country who may have been infected in the last few months. This is to help the Ministry of Health establish the baseline for population immunity for this infection. Participants who tested positive in this survey are likely to have been infected with the virus and most were likely unaware that they had been infected. To ascertain that they do not have an active infection at this time, they and their household family members will undergo a swab test for the SAR-CoV-2 virus.
So far, participants who were found to be positive in the survey as well as their family members have been found to be negative on the swab tests and confirmed to be free from active infection. The public are advised not to worry when receiving news about anyone who has been found to be positive in the serology survey.
The health minister also informed that a total of 389,056 individuals have registered as users to BruHealth application. In addition, a total of 9,647 businesses and premises have registered for the application.
KUAL;A LUMPUR: Health Ministry announces 14 new cases, 127 recoveries, no death (Updated)
PETALING JAYA: The Health Ministry today announced that as of 12pm today, there were 14 positive cases reported, with the total number of positive cases rising to 8529 positive cases.
“The total number of active cases are 408 cases, with 4 positive cases under intensive care unit (ICU),“ said Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah today in a press statement.
He also said 127 cases have recovered and discharged from the hospital, leading to the total number of recoveries rise up to 8000 cases.
However, he also said no death occured today, maintaining the total number of deaths to 121.
Meanwhile, Noor Hisham said the ministry has taken the targeted approach in screening high risk groups, particularly those in the detention centres for illegal migrants.
He said following that, some focus has been given to these screenings, including:
– All new detained people at the detention centre have to be taken samples
– All detained people that are about to be transferred to other detention centres have to be swabbed first
– All detained people that are to be sent back to their country of origin has to be swabbed first
– All staff working at detention centres have to be swabbed
– Random sampling as an assessment of risk will be conduct by the district health office/state health department
“As of today (18 June) 12pm, 13149 individuals have been swabbed, whereby 782 cases were detected Covid-19 positive, 11564 are negative and 803 are still awaiting results,“ he said.
Out of 782 cases, 7 are Malaysians and 775 are foreigners, and they have been isolated and admitted to hospital for treatment, with active case detection being conducted.
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