09 March 2021. Vietnam’s provincial steering committee for COVID-19 prevention and control said that illegal immigrants had been sent to concentrated quarantine facilities and tested for COVID-19. Investigation and contact tracing are underway.https://vietnamnet.vn/en/society/vietnam-news-headlines-march-9-718016.html

09 March 2021. China’s agriculture ministry said on Tuesday there had been an outbreak of African swine fever – the disease that ravaged the country’s pig herd from mid-2018 – in the southwestern province of Sichuan.https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-swinefever/china-reports-african-swine-fever-outbreak-in-sichuan-province-idUSKBN2B11N9

08 March 2021. Cambodia had recorded a total of 1,011 Covid-19 cases, with 493 receiving ongoing treatment. Covid-19 whose cases were linked to February 20 community transmission have recovered and been discharged from hospital. https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kingdoms-covid-cluster-cases-top-500

3 March 2021. Some 150,000 medical workers around the country will be vaccinated against Covid-19 this month. The vaccine was developed by Sinopharm, which previously provided 2,000 doses to Laos.https://www.thestar.com.my/aseanplus/aseanplus-news/2021/03/03/laos-to-begin-second-round-of-covid-19-vaccinations-this-month

3 March 2021. China is lagging in its coronavirus vaccination roll-out because it has the disease largely under control, but plans to inoculate 40% of its population by June. Country has delivered 52.52 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines.https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/covid-19-china-vaccinate-40-per-cent-population-by-june-14320664

3 March 2021. Around 324,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine licensed to Serum Institute of India (SII) arrived in Cambodia on March 2. At least 1,296,000 vaccines in total, with the rest of the vaccines arriving throughout this year.https://www.who.int/cambodia/news/detail/03-03-2021-cambodia-among-first-countries-to-receive-covid-19-vaccines-from-covax-facility

1 March 2021. The Government of Lao PDR, through MOH conducted nationwide table-top exercise on 25 and 26 February to discuss the implementation of the National Deployment and Vaccination Plan for the COVID-19 vaccines.https://www.who.int/laos/news/detail/01-03-2021-lao-pdr-prepares-for-roll-out-of-covid-19-vaccines

28 February 2021. The first batch of 117,600 doses of Oxford/AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine arrived in Vietnam on February 23. And on 24 February 2021, the first batch of Covid-19 vaccine also landed in Thailand.

28 February 2021. While China has pledged to ship hundreds of millions of vaccines abroad, domestically the rollout of inoculations has been slow, raising concerns that restrictions on international travel will remain until at least next year.https://www.ft.com/content/58ca570e-38ee-404f-90f5-57c21c458058

27 February 2021. The 200,000 doses of Sinovac vaccine arrived in Thailand and will be distributed to 13 provinces, with frontline health workers, health authorities, and those at higher risk being the first to receive the vaccine.https://dancham.or.th/covid-vaccine-distribution-plans-for-thailand/