Thai Cabinet approves an additional 14.5 billion baht, aiming to support the medical workers under the Covid-19 pandemic. This budget will be divided into two parts: approximately 12.7 billion baht will be provided to medical workers...
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has had a devastating impact globally, with severe health and economic consequences including increased disperaties in health inequalities. This has the potential to frustrate governments efforts towards universal health coverage. To...
One of the potential approaches to increasing vaccine equity as part of the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, is reducing Africa's reliance on global vaccine supply chains. This can be enhanced by transferring competencies for vaccine production from upper...
The government of Namibia received approximately US$270.83 million under the Rapid Financing Instrument to help the country address urgent balance of payments and fiscal financing needs stemming from the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Namibia has been...
Laos plans to roll out the third round of Covid-19 vaccination program after Covid-19 vaccines arrive in July; 132,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine is scheduled to arrive in Laos. While Johnson & Johnson's vaccine is also set to arrive...
Japan's policy shifts the prioritization and hospitalization resources allocation to severely ill or high-risk COVID-19 patients. Severe illness refers to the patient has severe pneumonia and needs to be admitted to an intensive care unit and receive treatment...
In July 8th Timor-Leste receives 40,000 additional AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines from Australia. In total, Australia has already supplied 175,000 vaccines to Timor-Leste. Australia has committed to provide Timor-Leste with sufficient doses of...
Thai National Health Security Office has covered the cost of services under the home isolation program provided by the private clinic: 1,000 baht per case for meals and health services and 1,100 baht for medical devices such as a digital thermometer and a...
Nepal receives 230,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccine from Bhutan. Bhutan has surplus vaccine doses after inoculating more than 90 percent of its eligible population. Thus, Nepal had written to Bhutan for vaccine support on a reciprocal condition; Nepal...
Lao government has extended lockdown measures nationwide to Aug. 18 due to a rise of COVID-19 cases. The National Taskforce Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control on Tuesday reported 237 new imported cases and 13 locally...
Maldives has vaccinated 50 per cent of the total population; 320,059 people have received the first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, while 251,232 people have received the second doses. Maldives has started the vaccination program since...
Maldives' government requires all government employees to get vaccinated before August 15 on Tuesday in order to control the spread of COVID-19 and the community-wide inoculation program had made progress towards achieving a new normal. The government...
Malaysia government announces new symptomatic Covid-19 infections as an indicator for the National Recovery Plan (NRP). The threshold will be no more than 2,000 symptomatic cases requiring hospitalisation in order to move from Phase One to Phase Two of the...
Brunei has extended an operating hours of vaccination centre under the national Covid-19 vaccination programme to 8pm, starting from August 2, aiming to reach target of 70 percent of vaccination population. The extend hours...
Australia provides the COVID-19 Disaster Payment divided into three different rates based on the number of hours of work lost by an eligible recipient and whether or not they are receiving an income support payment: $200 per week for those in receipt of an...
