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Indonesia, chair of the Group of 20 major economies for 2022, has started talks with members on standardising health protocols for travel.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has ordered Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of National Defense and Chairman of the National Committee for Organising the 32nd SEA Games 2023 (CAMSOC) to examine the possibility of administering the fourth COVID-19 vaccine dose to athletes with Pfizer vaccine.

Indonesian health authorities said on December 28 that they are conducting contact tracing after the Southeast Asian country detected the first case of the fast-spreading Omicron variant of COVID-19 in the community.

Singaporean authorities have ordered tightening some restrictions from July 22 to August 18 amid increasing COVID-19 infections.

For the first time in six months, Vietnam Airlines' first routine international commercial flight took off from Hanoi on September 19 morning, heading to Japan.

COVID-19 cases in Indonesia rose by 1,752 within one day to 84,882, with the death toll adding by 59 to 4,016, a local health official said.

Indonesian authorities said on July 13 that the country is planning to impose sanctions against violators of health protocols amid the COVID-19 pandemic in order to tighten the public discipline which President Joko Widodo assessed is still low.