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Southeast Asian nations log more COVID-19 cases

Southeast Asian nations continued to confirm new COVID-19 cases on March 2.
Southeast Asian nations log more COVID-19 cases ảnh 1Medical workers disinfect a market in Samut Sakhon, Thailand (Photo: Xinhua/VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – Southeast Asian nations continued to confirm newCOVID-19 cases on March 2.

With 42 new cases, mostly local infections,Thailand has so far logged 26,073 cases, 2,789 of them are imported and thereare 84 deaths, reported the Centre for COVID-19 SituationAdministration (CCSA).

Cambodia also reported 24 more cases, bringing the total localtransmission cases in the third outbreak to 340. The country has so far recorded 844 cases, 478 ofthem have recovered and there are no deaths.

Meanwhile, Indonesia confirmed twocases infected with the SARS-CoV-2 variant found in the UK. Out of its over 1.34 million infections, more than 36,300 have been dead.

The same day, Malaysian Minister of Security Ismail SabriYaakob announced that the states of Selangor, Kuala Lumpur, Johor and Penang willexit the Movement Control Order (MCO), which will be replaced by the ConditionalMCO (CMCO), starting from March 5-18.

Other states, including Melaka, Pahang, Terenganu, Sabah, WPPutrajaya, WP Labuan, will switch from CMCO to Recovery MCO (RMCO)./.

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