8 May 2023. In December 2022, a single reported case of diphtheria in Lao PDR suddenly escalated into a full-blown outbreak. Soon, there were 60 patients across Huaphanh and Bolikhamxay provinces. Since last outbreak in 2012, vaccination rates had fallen off, leaving a dangerous immunity gap that needed to be closed.

8 May 2023. The Vietnam Ministry of Health has recently issued a plan to carry out a programme on ensuring vaccine supply until 2030. Priority mechanisms will be granted to the research and production of vaccines for emerging, dangerous and highly infectious diseases and new types of vaccines in Vietnam.

7 May 2023. The WHO ended the global emergency status for COVID-19, more than 3 years after its original declaration, and said countries should now manage virus that killed more than 6.9 million people along with other infectious diseases.

7 May 2023. Hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi have lately received many patients who come for examination of sexually transmitted diseases. Worryingly, sexually transmitted diseases tend to increase, mainly among adolescents.

12 March 2023. As of March 7, Vietnam had detected 68 clusters of ASF in 22 cities and provinces. As for the bird flu, in the year to March 7, the nation had discovered four clusters of the influenza A virus subtype H5N1 (A/H5N1) in four districts of four provinces.

16 March 2023. The Cambodia Ministry of Health on March 16 reported one new Covid-19 case and two new recoveries. As of March 16, Cambodia had recorded a total of 138,721 Covid-19 cases with 135,663 recoveries and 3,056 fatalities.

14 March 2023. Vietnam’s health ministry has urged medical facilities to be vigilant for suspected cases of Streptococcus suis, a bacterium that comes from pigs, after a number of human cases were found over the past few months.

13 March 2023. Vietnam’s COVID-19 caseload rose to 11,527,046 with nine new cases recorded on March 13. More than 266.50 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in Vietnam so far.

12 March 2023. According to the weekly Covid surveillance report released by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention on Saturday, there has been a significant increase in the positivity rate for flu.

11 March 2023. Dengue cases in Laos have risen to 548 since January this year. The highest number of dengue patients was reported in the Lao capital Vientiane at 92, with 91 cases in Oudomxay, and 54 cases in Luang Namtha province.