A health worker takes a motorcyclist's blood sample for COVID-19 testing in Tangerang city, Indonesia, on May 4 (Photo: AFP/VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – Singapore and Indonesia reportedhundreds of new COVID-19 infections while Thailand confirmed four new importedcases on May 31.
The Singaporean Ministry of Health confirmed 518more COVID-19 cases on May 31, raising the total infections to 34,884, and mostof the new patients are migrant workers residing in dormitories.
There are 374 patients still under treatmentwhile 13,242 others under quarantine in the city state at present.
The same day, the Health Ministry of Indonesiaannounced 700 new infections of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19,adding up to the total of 26,473 cases.
Achmad Yurianto, a health official, alsoinformed about 40 more deaths from the disease, bringing the number offacilities in the country to 1,613. Besides, 7,308 patients have fullyrecovered so far.
Meanwhile, Thailand confirmed four new cases,who are from the UAE and Saudi Arabia, and no deaths on May 31. The respectivetotal figures now stand at 3,081 and 57.
Panprapa Yongtrakul, a spokeswoman of the ThaiGovernment’s Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration, said the communitytransmission of SARS-CoV-2 in her country has slowed down, and about 80 percentof the new cases over the last couple of weeks were Thais returning fromoverseas.
In the Philippines, the country’s flag carrierPhilippine Airlines is set to resume some domestic and international flights onJune 1 after more than two months of suspension.
They include the routes linking with the US,Vietnam, mainland China, Malaysia, Indonesia, China’s Hong Kong and Taipei,Singapore, Japan, the UAE, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia. The planned domestic flightsinclude ones connecting Manila with Basco, Laoag, Legazpi, Puerto Princesa,Busuanga, and Bacolod./.
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