Double whammy: Indonesia DHF cases rise amid COVID-19 pandemic
As Indonesia medical personnel grapple with a galloping COVID-19 outbreak a familiar harbourer of death…
Communications and transparency key to Indonesia’s COVID-19 response
In mid-February, Indonesia’s Health Minister, Terawan Agus Putranto pointed to divine intervention when explaining that…
Asia-Pacific response to COVID-19 needs social inclusion and environmental sustainability (video)
The unprecedented public health emergency triggered by the COVID -19 pandemic and its multi-faceted impact…
Asean governments jump on dodgy COVID-19 instant test kits (video)
Governments across Asean have raised alarm over the sudden emergence of unregistered COVID-19 instant test…
Philippines hit with polio and bird flu as COVID-19 spreads
As the Philippines locks down its 100-million population in an attempt to slow the spread…
Costs and concerns as Asean races to deliver COVID-19 testing
As the world reels from the outbreak of COVID-19 Asean nations are scrambling to provide…
ADB lays out $200 million for COVID-19 supply chains
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has stumped up $200 million for companies that make and…
COVID-19: UN chief calls for calm, warns of global recession
The upheaval caused by the coronavirus — COVID-19 — is all around us. And I…
Myanmar students evacuated from SARS-CoV-2 hot zone go home
Myanmar Minister for Health and Sports, Dr Myint Htwe, yesterday (Feb 16) met with the…
Westerdam passenger from Cambodia confirmed as Malaysia’s 22nd COVID-19 case (video) *update 3
An 83-year-old American woman who was among 145 people to disembark the cruise ship MS…
“Kick them out”: Thai health minister says of foreign tourists refusing to mask up (video)
Less than a week after describing the 2019 novel coronavirus as “just a flu”, Thailand…
Singapore musician calls for virus fight while Chinese greats sing their love to Hubei (video)
With the number of confirmed 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) infections and deaths globally rising by…
Deaths skyrocket while Beijing delays coronavirus hot zone evacuations (video + photo gallery)
Thailand and several other Asean member states continue waiting for approval from Beijing to launch…
Starving Thai students plead for help as Wuhan coronavirus runs wild (video) *updated
A Thai student studying at Wuhan University, China, has posted a desperate plea for help…
As Chinese virus runs wild a 115 hotline puts help at the end of the phone for Cambodians (video)
The current Wuhan novel* 2019-nCoV coronavirus outbreak and its rapid spread globally is a good…
Wolbachia delivers a toxin-free death blow to rocketing dengue rates (video)
As the number of confirmed deaths from dengue in the Philippines this year broke through…