Health

Thailand’s total number of Covid-19 patients rose to 2,613 with 34 new cases confirmed over a 24-hour period, and one more death, Taweesin Visanuyothin, spokesman of the government’s Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration, as of April 14, 2020. This compares with 54 new cases on Thursday, 50 on Friday, 45 on Saturday, 33 on Sunday and 28 on Monday. He …

Qatar is persistent to complete building projects ahead of World Cup 2022. However, there are growing group of Southeast Asian workers who seem to be frontliners in the alarming pandemic, COVID-19. As this pandemic works its way through the country, which now has more than 2,000 confirmed cases, the crowded living spaces of migrant workers and lack of access to …

Three survivors of COVID-19 donated blood to Philippine General Hospital for an experimental procedure to support patients with serious coronavirus symptoms. Seafarer Ian Ceasar Frias and nurses Kai Soriano and Galey Arranz went through the apheresis blood donation process, where convalescent plasma was collected from donors, at the University of the Philippines College of Medicine’s Paz Mendoza Hall in Manila. …

The deputy governor of Krabi province has called on residents of Phi Phi Island to allow the 300 or so foreign tourists to continue staying on the island so the spread of Covid-19 can be contained. Deputy governor Somkuan Khan-ngern met the villagers on Thursday (April 9) after learning that they were concerned about tourists spreading the virus. “We spoke …

In 2019, the value of the Thailand medical device market rose to 176 billion baht (US$6 billion) – a 70 percent increase in the past decade, according to official figures from Thailand’s Office of Industrial Economics. Thailand ranks ahead of Singapore as the most important importer and exporter of such products in the ten-member Associations of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), …

A positive tested Ubon lady already escaped the quarantine period and head back to her hometown in northeastern Thailand. Ubon Ratchathani’s Centre for Covid-19 Situation reported on Sunday (April 5) that a Khemarat district woman aged 30 years, who left her apartment in Bangkok’s Soi Pattanakarn 43, tested positive for Covid-19 after she entered the province. “The province’s latest patient …

According to World Health Organization (WHO) statement, smokers in Indonesia are at high risk of “severe or critical” infection with the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). “Smokers are at high risk for heart disease and respiratory disease, which are high risk factors for developing severe or critical disease with COVID-19,” said Dr. Paranie, representative of WHO Indonesia. “Therefore, smokers in Indonesia …

The enhanced community quarantine in the Philippines has been challenging the people to boost their immune system through taking vitamins, eating nutritious foods, getting enough sleep and as much as possible to stay at home so that there will be a reduction of infected people. But there are other ways to keep the immune system strong especially at this time …

Local hospitals in Thailand have been facing the lack of medical masks and supplies due to the virus outbreak and the government didn’t seem to sincerely assist with this matter. However, the president of the Help Crime Victim Club, Atchariya Ruangrattanaphong, has raised a donation campaign for Thais to give their money and turn in to masks and medical supplies. …

Amid pandemic coronavirus or Covid-19, some countries need medical equipment to avoid transmission of the virus. Thousands of testing kits and medical masks are below standard or defective that imported from China, according to authorities in Spain, Turkey and the Netherlands. On Saturday, the Dutch health ministry announced it had recalled 600,000 face masks. The equipment had arrived from a …