29 March 2022. Country’s Ministry of Health warned that COVID-19 cases are projected to surge during traditional new year festival in mid-April. The Lao government has ordered to not hold public events celebrating the new year. Meanwhile, Cambodia has re-instated COVID-19 rapid testing for workers returning from Thailand.https://en.vietnamplus.vn/laos-cambodia-move-to-curb-covid19-spread-during-new-year-festival/224243.vnp

28 March 2022. Surin is poised to be the first province in Thailand to classify the spread of Covid-19 as an endemic, as residents have cooperated well in maintaining public health safety under Public Health Ministry’s Covid-free setting guidelines.https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2285990/surin-gets-ready-for-endemic-status

28 March 2022. Millions of people in China’s financial hub were confined to their homes on Monday as the eastern half of Shanghai went into lockdown to curb the nation’s biggest Covid outbreak.https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/2286338/half-of-shanghai-in-lockdown-to-curb-covid-19-outbreak

28 March 2022. Cambodia today recorded the 52^nd consecutive day of the new ‘Omicron Surge’ – but numbers appear to be dropping. Today’s official daily new COVID case total was 54 – all the Omicron variant – bringing the COVID case total to 135,513 cases.https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501048645/light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel-daily-cases-low-again-for-cambodia/

28 March 2022. The Chinese mainland on Sunday reported 1,219 locally transmitted COVID-19 cases. Of new cases, 1,086 were reported in Jilin, 50 in Shanghai, 12 in Liaoning, and 10 in Heilongjiang. The rest of cases were reported in 14 provincial-level regions. https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202203/28/WS62411515a310fd2b29e53a1c.html

28 March 2022. The Vietnam Health Ministry said that children aged between 5-11 will be vaccinated against Covid-19 from early April. Training on vaccination for children has been conducted nationwide.https://www.sggpnews.org.vn/health/vietnam-to-vaccinate-children-aged-511-against-covid19-in-early-april-98149.html

27 March 2022. Myanmar recorded 130 new COVID-19 cases and one more death on Sunday. The newly reported infections brought the total tally to 610,858, with 19,430 deaths. Nationwide, 568,349 patients have recovered.https://www.xinhuanet.com/english/asiapacific/20220327/588598e2f44f4528b2bf2b5ad6cd293f/c.html

28 March 2022. Thailand Ministry of Public Health reported that there are 24,635 new patients who tested positive for Covid-19, 34 of whom have arrived in Thailand from abroad. Cumulative cases in the country since January 1, 2022 are at 1,330,285.https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/40013891

27 March 2022. A waterborne typhoid fever outbreak caused by XDR S. Typhi in Beijing municipality. This was the first report of the XDR S. Typhi triggered outbreak in Beijing, which was also rare in China. https://outbreaknewstoday.com/china-xdr-typhoid-fever-outbreak-in-beijing-86913/

22 March 2022. Though Covid-19 infections and deaths are surging in Thailand and the authorities have put the country under the highest alert level, the government is still hoping to declare the virus endemic by July.https://www.nationthailand.com/life/40013672