23 September 2021. Airports of Thailand (AoT) has revealed that authorities are repurposing the Advance Passenger Processing System (APPS), to check incoming air passengers’ health documentation ahead of their arrival, as the country is set to reopen to tourism starting next month.https://www.pattayamail.com/thailandnews/thailand-ramps-up-health-screening-of-international-arrivals-372910

23 September 2021. President of the Lao Garments Association has given a statement that outbreaks of Covid-19 among workers at several garment factories in the nation’s capital have caused a surge in community spread of the virus, prompting the city to go into full lockdown.https://laotiantimes.com/2021/09/23/garment-association-president-clarifies-covid-19-spread-at-garment-factories/

23 September 2021. Vietnam’s Health Ministry has conditionally approved eight COVID-19 vaccines for emergency use in the country, such as: Vaccine Abdala by AICA – Cuba, Vaccine Hayat-Vax, COVID-19 Vaccine Janssen, Spikevax (COVID-19 vaccine Moderna), Vero-cell by Sinopharm, Comirnaty (or Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine), Sputnik-V, and A2D1222 by AstraZeneca.https://en.vietnamplus.vn/eight-covid19-vaccines-conditionally-approved-for-emergency-use-in-vietnam/208396.vnp

23 September 2021. Lao Airlines had suspended all flights from Vientiane to provinces until further notice as Covid-19 cases hit a new high in the capital city. In an attempt to halt the spread of the Covid-19 Delta variant, the Vientiane Southern Bus Station Management Board also confirmed it had suspended inter-city passenger transport.https://www.ttrweekly.com/site/2021/09/lao-airlines-suspends-domestic-flights/

23 September 2021. Thailand Ministry of Public Health reported that there are 13,256 new patients who tested positive for Covid-19, 478 of whom have been found in prisons. Cumulative cases in the country are at 1,524,613 with 12,778 total deaths.https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/40006537

23 September 2021. The Department of Health of HCMC (Vietnam) has issued an urgent dispatch on establishing the Community-based Covid-19 Patient Care teams in districts and Thu Duc City.https://www.sggpnews.org.vn/health/hcmc-to-establish-communitybased-covid19-patient-care-teams-94855.html

22 September 2021. Officials from the Siem Reap Provincial Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in Cambodia are conducting a disinfection campaign on cattle farms, slaughterhouses, and barns in livestock communities throughout the province to prevent the spread of diseases such as Haemorrhagic Septicaemia (HS).https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/siem-reap-begins-disinfection-campaign-protect-livestock

22 September 2021. Scientists have discovered another clue to the origins of the virus that causes Covid-19, with bats living in caves in Laos found to be carrying a similar pathogen that experts suggest could potentially infect humans directly.https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2186047/bats-with-covid-like-viruses-found-in-laos-study

22 September 2021. The latest COVID-19 spike in East China’s Fujian Province has been basically contained, but uncertainties remain and the situation is at a stalemate, based on the latest assessment by experts (Chinese National Health Commission’s working team).https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202109/1234862.shtml

22 September 2021. The government of Laos has locked down the country’s capital Vientiane and barred travel between COVID-19-hit provinces, as cases reached a record high over the weekend.https://thediplomat.com/2021/09/laos-tightens-covid-19-restrictions-as-infections-reach-new-peak/