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Thailand has seen its first confirmed case of the XAY.2 variant of COVID-19 but people close to the patient were not infected, the Thai Health Ministry’s Department of Medical Sciences said on January 6.

Since the suspected diagnosis as Vietnam’s first case of monkey pox, the Ministry of Health and Ho Chi Minh City have handled all stages of surveillance, testing, zoning in accordance with instruction and guidance.

The Ministry of Health on October 3 announced the first case of monkeypox in Vietnam.

Indonesia has recorded its first case of monkeypox - an international traveller returning home from a country with confirmed cases.

The first cases of COVID-19 were discovered on December 29, 2019 in Wuhan, China. Later, on March 31, 2020, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared COVID-19 a global pandemic.

Singapore confirmed its first case infected with a new variant of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 termed VUI 202012/01 on December 23, said the country’s Ministry of Health in a press release.

Singapore’s Ministry of Health on January 23 confirmed the first case of a new strain of coronavirus that has killed 17 and infected over 570 people in China.

Malaysia reported the first case of polio in almost three decades, according to the country's health ministry.

Singaporean Ministry of Health (MOH) announced on May 9 that it has detected the first case of monkeypox, with the patient identified as a 38-year-old Nigerian who arrived in Singapore in late last month.

The southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau has confirmed the first Zika virus infection in the province.

Malaysia's Health Minister S Subramaniam on September 7 confirmed its first case of a pregnant woman infected with the Zika virus.

A 47-year-old Malaysian woman living in Singapore was confirmed with Zika virus, and was the first reported case of locally-transmitted Zika virus infection in the country.

An American woman was infected with the Zika virus during her stay in the Philippines in January.