3 August 2021. New Covid-19 insurance products are being developed by Thai insurers to cover patients taking part in Public Health Ministry’s home and community isolation scheme. This should help ease the growing strain on bed capacity and frontline health workers at local hospitals as Thailand struggles with the third wave of the outbreak.https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/2158859/covid-policy-adjustment-to-help-isolating-patients

2 August 2021. The Southeast Asian nations are struggling to contain the more contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus. The coronavirus pandemic in Vietnam and Laos are now out of control in many parts of the country due to a fourth wave of infections from the Delta variant.https://www.rfa.org/english/news/vietnam/virus-infections-08022021175728.html

2 August 2021. China is trying to contain its largest coronavirus outbreak in months. China reported that outbreak of the fast-spreading Delta variant reached over 20 cities and more than a dozen provinces.https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/2158663/millions-under-virus-lockdown-as-china-battles-delta-outbreak

2 August 2021. Still in the grips of COVID-19 surges mainly fueled by the Delta (B1617.2) variant, Thailand and Vietnam extended lockdowns and other measures for the worst-hit parts of the countries.https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2021/08/thailand-and-vietnam-extend-covid-measures

2 August 2021. Cambodia has so far detected more than 200 cases of the highly contagious coronavirus Delta variant. The Ministry of Health has expressed deep concerns that the variant may have already reached communities and be spreading as some of the cases detected have no clear source of origin.https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/delta-spreading-kingdom

30 July 2021. Due to the current Covid-19 pandemic situation and quarantine facilities’ capacity in Quang Ngai Province, Vietnam, the Provincial People’s Committee decided to suspend the reception of returners from pandemic-hit localities following the Ministry of Health’s epidemiological map, starting from the beginning of August.https://sggpnews.org.vn/health/quang-ngai-province-halts-receiving-returners-from-covid19-hit-localities-93710.html

30 July 2021. That Thailand’s coronavirus pandemic has been grossly mismanaged is self-evident. Infection rates have soared to new highs this month while vaccine availability and access remain shoddy and abysmal. The overstretched healthcare system is creaking under growing demand.https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/2156963/correcting-the-pandemic-policy-tack

30 July 2021. In response to the ongoing Covid-19 crisis in Myanmar, where cases and deaths are soaring since mid-June and patients are struggling to access oxygen against a backdrop of escalating conflict. Current situation has driven the country’s already fragile healthcare system into the ground during a global pandemic. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/07/myanmar-covid-19-surges-overwhelming-shattered-healthcare-system/

30 July 2021. Authorities in southern Laos’ Savannakhet and Champasak provinces are setting up more quarantine centers and makeshift hospitals to cope with the influx of Lao nationals returning from foreign countries.https://www.xinhuanet.com/english/asiapacific/2021-07/30/c_1310096792.htm

30 July 2021. China’s successful COVID-19 containment strategy is being put through one of its biggest tests yet as the contagious Delta coronavirus variant rips through Asia. Health officials have recorded dozens of new daily cases in the eastern city of Nanjing after the outbreak first started among workers at the city’s airport.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-30/how-china-tackles-delta-fuelled-coronavirus-outbreak-in-nanjing/100323692