15 February 2021. Investigators from the World Health Organization (WHO) looking into the origins of coronavirus in China have discovered signs the outbreak was much wider in Wuhan in December 2019 than previously thought, and are urgently seeking access to hundreds of thousands of blood samples from the city that China has not so far let them examine.https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/14/health/who-mission-china-intl/index.html

14 February 2021. Thailand, as one of the leading tourist destinations in the world, is not convinced about the vaccine passport yet. The health authorities of Thailand states that the best international agreement on traveling during the COVID-19 pandemic is still a 14-day quarantine.https://scandasia.com/thailand-not-onboard-with-nordic-and-eu-vaccine-passports-yet/

14 February 2021. A team of experts selected by the World Health Organization to investigate the origins of the virus that caused the Covid-19 pandemic returned last week from Wuhan, site of the world’s first outbreak. With Chinese scientists, they plans to produce a joint report on the possible origins of the virus.https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/14/health/WHO-covid-daszak-china-virus.html?referringSource=articleShare

11 February 2021. It is probably premature to offer an assessment of the COVID-19 pandemic’s possible consequences. Many of the (mostly Asia-Pacific) countries that took the most aggressive steps to tackle the coronavirus seem to be in a much stronger position than the West.https://theaseanpost.com/article/plague-year-what-we-learnt

11 February 2021. Thailand announced plans to inoculate 1 million of its most vulnerable people against COVID-19 by May and start mass vaccinations in June, with the aim of administering 10 million doses a month.https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/thailand-covid-19-coronavirus-vaccine-10-million-monthly-14173216

10 February 2021. Prevalence of asymptomatic intestinal parasitic infections (IPI) is much higher than symptomatic cases. One Health (OH) approach and multi-sectorial collaboration are key to form specific intervention in reducing the IPI prevalence and mitigating disease-related risks. The intervention might be applied to address other infectious diseases in the future.https://www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712(21)00101-6/fulltext

10 February 2021. Cambodia launched its coronavirus inoculation drive on Wednesday, using 600,000 vaccine doses, with the sons of long-serving Prime Minister Hun Sen and government ministers among the first recipients.https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Coronavirus/Cambodia-COVID-vaccinations-begin-with-Hun-Sen-s-sons-ministers

10 February 2021. About 90 people were hospitalized with Covid-19-like symptoms in central China in the two months before the disease was first identified in Wuhan in late 2019. The World Health Organization’s mission to Wuhan said the coronavirus most likely spread naturally to humans through an animalhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/possible-early-covid-19-cases-in-china-emerge-during-who-mission-11612996225

9 February 2021. There is increased risk of COVID-19 transmission among familial members in Wuhan, China. The transmissibility and pathogenicity of the SARS-CoV-2 virus may increase after person-to-person transmission. There is an related higher attack rate and the worse clinical outcomes in COVID-19 family clusters.https://www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712(21)00106-5/fulltext

8 February 2021. Vietnam has culled more 100,000 poultry so far this year in a bid to contain the spread of bird flu in the Southeast Asian country. The country has reported outbreaks of the highly pathogenic H5N1 and H5N6 bird flu strains in 14 provinceshttps://news.yahoo.com/vietnam-culls-100-000-poultry-062724947.html?guccounter=2