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Children aged between 5-11 will be vaccinated against COVID-19 from early April, according to the Health Ministry.

The southern province of Binh Duong has confirmed one imported case of Omicron variant of coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, announced the provincial Department of Health on January 23.

The Ministry of Health on December 27 held an online meeting connecting with 63 provinces and cities nationwide, spotlighting the importance of vaccination to everyone.

Routine immunisation of children has resumed in HCM City, the epicentre of the COVID-19 outbreak, after being temporarily halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the HCM City Centre for Disease Control (HCDC).

Indonesian Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin said the number of domestic COVID-19 cases decreased as people had acquired immunity to the virus naturally or through vaccination.

A total of 143,000 students in Malaysia, except those in Kedah and Johor, began returning to school on October 4 after all schools in the country were closed for about six months due to the spread of COVID-19.

The Jakarta government plans to re-open schools from August 30 after the restriction on community activities (PPKM) is lifted.

The Ministry of Health of Cambodia reported another 588 COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, the highest daily number since the start of the pandemic outbreak.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son held phone talks with French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Yves Le Drian on July 23, during which the latter pledged to help accelerate COVID-19 vaccine supplies to Vietnam via COVAX.

Mong Cai city of the northern province of Quang Ninh began the COVID-19 vaccination drive for residents of border localities on July 14.

The Ministry of Health has issued Decision No. 3400/QD-BYT on the allocation of more than 2 million doses of Spikevax COVID-19 vaccine (Moderna vaccine) to 53 cities and provinces nationwide as well as military, public security forces and 20 hospitals run by the ministry.

Military-run telecom group Viettel on July 9 said the COVID-19 immunisation management platform, designated to serve the mass inoculation nationwide, is now ready for use.

The Malaysian government will decide whether to revise its growth target of between 6 percent and 7.5 percent this year based on the gross domestic product (GDP) performance for the second quarter, as the economy is seeing signs of recovery, said an official.

As many as 174 refrigerators for storage of vaccines, funded by the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI) and supplied by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), arrived in Ho Chi Minh City on June 8.

Drugmaker AstraZeneca on June 2 said that it would soon provide Thailand with 1.8 million doses of locally manufactured COVID-19 vaccine, the first of multiple batches this month, just days away from the launch of the country's vaccination drive.

The Cambodian Ministry of Health on June 2 reported 750 more COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, including 34 imported and 716 local transmissions.

COVID-19 infections among children and infants is a cause for concern as they have become the group most at risk after the elderly, Malaysia’s Defence Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob has told a press conference updating coronavirus situation in the country.

ASEAN member countries are working towards accessing COVID-19 vaccine sources for large-scale immunisation campaigns in a bid to reach herd immunity in 2022, heard a workshop held online in Hanoi on May 25.

A total of 892,454 people in Vietnam have been given COVID-19 vaccine shots to date, according to May 11’s morning report from the National Expanded Programme on Immunisation (NEPI).

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to ravage many Southeast Asian countries, with the exception of Brunei which on May 6 marked one year free from COVID-19 transmission in the community.