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Southeast Asian nations maintain vigilance against COVID-19

Laos recorded 10 new cases of COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, including one community infection in Vientiane and nine imported cases, the Lao Health Ministry said on June 27.
Southeast Asian nations maintain vigilance against COVID-19 ảnh 1National lockdown measures in Malaysia had been set to end on June 28. (Photo: Reuters)
Hanoi (VNA) – Laos recorded 10 new cases ofCOVID-19 over the past 24 hours, including one community infection in Vientianeand nine imported cases, the Lao Health Ministry said on June 27.

The local case was reported after Laos had gone throughtwo consecutive days without new infections. Its COVID-19 case count nowreaches 2,110, with three fatalities.

Given the complex developments of the pandemic in neighbouringcountries, the ministry has urged people to maintain vigilance against the diseaseand cooperate with competent forces in the combat.

Meanwhile, the Philippines' Department of Health (DOH)reported on June 27 6,096 new COVID-19 infections, bringing the total number ofconfirmed cases in the Southeast Asian country to 1,397,992.

The death toll climbed to 24,372 after 128 morepatients died from the viral disease, the DOH said.

Health Undersecretary Leopoldo Vega urged people to bevigilant amid the threat of more infectious coronavirus variants such as theDelta variant first found in India.

"We are not out of the woods yet. There is agradual decrease of cases in Metro Manila but only slowly," Vega said in aradio interview, warning that some central and southern Philippine areas areexperiencing a surge of infections.

Thailand also ordered restaurants in its capital cityBangkok and nearby provinces to suspend dine-in services for a month asauthorities tightened curbs to tackle the nation’s deadliest wave of COVID-19outbreak.

The ban on dining in from June 28 is in addition tothe previously announced sealing of residential camps of construction workersin the Bangkok metropolitan areas and four other provinces after they becamemajor clusters of infections.

Shopping malls in Bangkok and its neighbouringprovinces must be closed by 9pm. All gatherings of more than 20 people,seminars and conferences are banned in Bangkok and the five provinces,according to a Royal Gazette statement late June 26.

Thailand reported 3,995 new infections in the past 24hours, taking the cumulative caseload since the pandemic began to 244,447,official data showed on June 27. Total fatalities topped 1,900 with theaddition of 42 new deaths.

Malaysia will extend a national lockdown beyond June 28to curb the spread of COVID-19, state news agency Bernama reported on June 27,citing Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin.

Lockdown measures were set to end on June 28. ButMuhyiddin said they will not be eased until daily cases fell below 4,000,Bernama said.

Malaysia reported 5,803 cases on June 26./.
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