16 July 2021. Vietnam Deputy Minister of Health shared about revised health ministry guidelines on the mandatory quarantine period and details of a pilot home-quarantine scheme for people who come into direct contact with confirmed COVID-19 cases. https://vietnamnews.vn/opinion/993692/explained-new-home-quarantine-pilot-programme-for-covid-19-patients.html

15 July 2021. A man in China has been hospitalized with the H5N6 strain of avian flu, which is one of several potentially dangerous strains that can infect humans. He was hospitalized in Bazhong, a city in the province of Sichuan.https://consumer.healthday.com/chinese-man-hospitalized-with-h5n6-bird-flu-2653793398.html

15 July 2021. The Myanmar will impose a nationwide lockdown next week, while also expanding the number of public holidays during the week from two to five, in an attempt to contain the spread of COVID-19 amid a surge in infections and deaths in the country.https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-junta-announces-nationwide-lockdown-next-week-as-covid-19-surges.html

12 July 2021. The Ministry of Health this morning documented 662 local Covid-19 cases, including 544 infections in Ho Chi Minh City and three imported cases, raising the national tally to 30,478.https://sggpnews.org.vn/health/new-covid19-cases-keep-rising-in-vietnam-today-93338.html

12 July 2021. Calls to give medical workers a booster shot are growing and should be a different type of vaccine, citing findings which suggest that another jab confers immunity against more strains, including the highly-infectious Alpha and Delta variants.https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2147027/calls-for-booster-jabs-grow-after-nurses-death

12 July 2021. Myanmar’s Health and Sports Ministry informed that total cases almost 200,000 and imposed a stay-at-home order in 18 more towns across the country due to the COVID-19 outbreak. It will be applied to six towns in Bago region and 12 towns in Yangon Region because of the recent increasing COVID-19 infections .https://www.thestar.com.my/aseanplus/aseanplus-news/2021/07/12/myanmar-imposes-stay-at-home-order-in-18-more-towns-over-covid-19-total-cases-almost-200000

11 July 2021. Cambodia Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said that the laboratory plays an important role in maintaining the quality of agricultural and food safety and protecting public health. The Department of Agro-Industry has cooperated with the China National Research Institute of Food and Fermentation.https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/minister-food-lab-protects-public-health

11 July 2021. Epidemic controls in parts of China’s southwestern province of Yunnan were tightened over the weekend as the region scrambled to contain a Covid-19 outbreak on the border with Myanmar. This time amid fears over spread of the more transmissible Delta variant. Yunnan also borders Laos and Vietnam. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3140685/china-tightens-covid-19-controls-myanmar-border-amid-delta

11 July 2021. The Thailand Public Health Ministry said on Sunday more than 600 medical workers who received two doses of China’s Sinovac vaccine have been infected with Covid-19, as authorities weigh giving booster doses to raise immunity. https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2146987/hundreds-of-medical-workers-infected-despite-sinovac-vaccinations

11 July 2021. The National Centre for Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control continue to combat TB despite Covid-19. This work requires further cooperate with authorities and all relevant partner civil society organizations. Some actions had not been carried out due to the pandemic, but treatment service provision and research into TB had continued.https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tuberculosis-remains-threat-amid-covid-19