The COVID-19 crisis has complicated efforts to combat the seasonal spike in dengue fever infections during the Southeast Asian monsoon season due to the burden the coronavirus pandemic has placed on health authorities in the region, experts say. Dengue is carried by mosquitoes and is one of the world’s most dangerous and fastest spreading viral […]

Hundreds of thousands of Lao migrant workers who returned from Thailand after losing their jobs when their host country shut down businesses to fight the COVID-19 pandemic are now pining for the border to reopen after finding no work in their impoveris…

Myanmar reported two more locally transmitted cases of COVID-19 this morning, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 396, said the Health and Sports Ministry.One patient is a 41-year-old male, living in Sittwe township of Rakhine st…

  HIGHLIGHTS The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases across the country remains low – a total of 360 cases, six fatalities and 312 recoveries so far- with most new cases reported among returning migrants. No cases have been reported in camps or sites for internally displaced people (IDP). Sixteen COVID-19 cases have been confirmed across […]

Laos has detained and deported hundreds of Chinese nationals in recent months for illegally entering the country to sidestep a mandatory 14-day coronavirus quarantine period and head straight to casinos to gamble or work, sources in the country told RFA. Most of the illegal border crossers are tourists bound for casinos in northwestern Bokeo province’s […]

After testing negative twice, Dr Wai Wai Mon says Case 245 will need to be quarantined for another fourteen days in a medical facility in the patient’s village-tract.   Case-231 was released on June 18 from Muse Public Hospital in northern Shan State, near the Chinese border. Like Case-245, the patient will be quarantined for […]

Dr Zawana, head of Shan State Health Department, told SHAN the swabs were taken from 161 workers who have been staying at a quarantine facility in Taunggyi, capital of Shan State.   The workers, who crossed the Friendship Bridge from the Thai border town of Mai Sot, have been in quarantine since July 1. Dr […]

Although rare, Dr Zawana, deputy head of Shan State Health Department, told SHAN that there have been cases in other countries where patients have tested positive after it was assumed, they had recovered. However, he says this is the first time a case has been confirmed in Burma.   In Korea, several patients were suspected […]

  Dr. Poe Poe Lin, the head of the virology department at the hospital, said that “90 percent” of the equipment is in place.   “The machine for the COVID-19 laboratory has arrived, but we still need two machine tools,” Dr. Poe Poe Lin said. “We also need other related materials. The lab building is […]