The Ministry of Health of Singapore has announced that it, the Ministry of Transport, and the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority are putting in place precautionary measures to enhance surveillance capabilities against mpox at the country’s borders.
The Embassy of Vietnam in Thailand has advised Vietnamese citizens living, working and studying in the country to rigorously comply with precautionary measures set out by the local government against the wide-spreading novel coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19).
Precautionary measures will be taken at the 39th Cobra Gold joint military exercise between Thailand and the US due to concerns about COVID-19, General Chalermpol Srisawat, chief-of-staff of the Royal Thai Armed Forces, said on February 14.
By January 28 morning, Singapore had confirmed five cases of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) infection while test results for the remaining 57 suspected cases are still pending.
Southeast Asian nations have taken precautionary measures to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus as the outbreak is worsening in China and elsewhere.
The Zika infection case discovered in Japan on September 12 is not Vietnamese, confirmed the Health Ministry’s Department of Preventive Medicine on September 15.
Localities across the countries are stepping up precautionary measures to prevent the spread of dengue fever and Zika virus, focusing on eliminating the Aedes Aegypti mosquito.
Vietnam has instructed major healthcare establishments nationwide to step up precautionary measures against the spread of the MERS-CoV after the second case was confirmed in Thailand on January 23.
The Ministry of Health has ordered local authorities nationwide to roll out precautionary measures against the spread of avian influenza to prevent any possible transmission to humans.
The Preventive Medicine Department has asked the health sector in Ninh Thuan to roll out precautionary measures in order to prevent the transmission of A/H5N1 bird flu strain to humans.
