27 December 2021. A handful of Myanmar nurses have been running makeshift clinics to treat Covid patients with medicine smuggled past military checkpoints.https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/2238451/treating-covid-patients-in-secret-myanmar-clinics

27 December 2021. In a report in journal, Infection, Genetics and Evolution,  researchers describe a fatal case of Balamuthia mandrillaris in a 15 -year-old male from Guizhou Province, China. He did progress into a coma and died due to multiple organ failure.https://outbreaknewstoday.com/balamuthia-mandrillaris-death-reported-in-china-55603/

27 December 2021. The Cambodia Ministry of Health reported 15 new Covid-19 cases, all of which were imported and confirmed to be the Omicron variant. As of December 27, Cambodia had recorded a total of 120,464 Covid-19 cases and 3,009 fatalities.https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodia-records-15-new-omi-cron-cases

27 December 2021. The number of patients infected with the Omicron strain in Thailand has risen to 514, with two-thirds of them being tourists. The newest cluster of concern was found in Si Sa Ket, where a couple travelling back from Belgium and are believed to have transmitted the virus to 125 people with another 97 awaiting confirmation. The cluster is also believed to be linked to six infections in Udon Thani and four in Lamphun. https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/40010482

22 December 2021. According to the Foreign Affairs Ministry, foreign visitors can still gain entry into Thailand under the Phuket Sandbox programme and by using AQ (alternate quarantine) services after suspension of the Thailand Pass.https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/40010278

22 December 2021. Narrowing the gap in hospital care is vital to ensuring that everyone has equal access to medical facilities. Yên Bái Province (Vietnam) has been focusing on deploying new and specialised techniques that bring practical benefits to all patients.https://vietnamnews.vn/society/1109104/yen-bai-province-strives-to-close-health-care-gap.html

22 December 2021. China’s domestically developed monoclonal neutralizing antibody therapy for COVID-19 treatment could be used clinically in the country within weeks after it was included in the country’s Diagnosis and Treatment Protocol for COVID-19－adding a tool to the global arsenal against the coronavirus.https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202112/22/WS61c26000a310cdd39bc7cbd1.html

22 December 2021. While Cambodia has detected four Covid-19 cases with the Omicron variant, neighbouring Thailand will reinstate its mandatory quarantine for foreign visitors and scrapped a quarantine waiver from yesterday.https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50992739/omicron-wreaks-global-havoc-cambodia-is-prepared-and-ready/

22 December 2021. Most of the group of 31 Thais who returned from a pilgrimage to the Islamic holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia on Dec 15 have now been found to have been infected with the Omicron coronavirus variant.https://www.bangkokpost.com/learning/easy/2236047/25-thais-from-tour-group-have-omicron

22 December 2021. Myanmar has reported 259 new Covid-19 cases, bringing the total tally to 528,639. Four new deaths were reported in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 19,230.https://www.dtnext.in/News/World/2021/12/22080645/1335194/Myanmar-reports-259-new-Covid-cases.vpf