Vietnam reports 2,93 new COVID-19 cases

Passengers wait for the arrival hall of the Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi on March 15, 2022, as Vietnam announced the return of a visa exemption policy for 13 countries in an effort to kickstart its tourism sector. The Ministry of Health said that NHAC NGUYEN AFP HANOI SINGAPORE YANGON MANILA Vietnam had 2,983 new COVID 19 cases on Tuesday, up from 1,288 from Monday.

The ministry said this was the highest number reported in the last 96 days.

All of the new cases were locally transmitted, according to the ministry.

The infections reported brought the total tally to 11,370, 462. The country reported two new deaths from the pandemic in the northern provinces of Dien Bien and Quang Ninh on Tuesday, bringing the total deaths to 43,100.

Nearly 251.7 million doses of COVID- 19 vaccine have been administered in the country, including over 216.4 million shots on people aged 18 and above, said the ministry.

Vietnam has already recorded COVID 19 infections with the Omicron BA. The vaccine of its people has been accelerated with a fourth vaccine dose, according to subvariants 1 and 1 subvariants.

Volunteers wearing personal protective equipment PPE carry the body of a victim of the coronaviruses to a cemetery in Hlegu Township in Yangon on July 10, 2021. The death toll in Myanmar is 19,436, according to the Ministry of Health on Tuesday after Myanmar reported the second death from COVID 19 in more than four months.

One death case was reported on Aug 11, the first since April 7.

The country logged 49 new cases of COVID- 19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the tally to 614,456, the ministry said.

The ministry said that 8,699 people were tested for COVID- 19 in the past 24 hours, and the daily positivity rate was 0.56 percent.

Myanmar reported its first COVID 19 cases on March 23, 2020, and its first death from COVID 19 on March 31, 2020.

A child receives the Pfizer-BioNtech COVID 19 vaccine for children aged 5 -- 11 as a performer dressed as Spider-Man at a gym in San Juan City, suburban Manila on February 7, 2022. The number of active cases fell to 36,190 and 49 more patients died from COVID 19 complications, causing the country's death toll to rise to 61,127, according to the Department of Health DOH.

Metro Manila, the capital region with over 13 million people, had 846 new cases.

Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said the cases in all areas are on a plateau and severe and critical cases remain below 1,000.

A notice warning against gathering in groups larger than five persons as part of the restrictions to hald the spread of the coronaviruses is displayed at Raffles Place financial business district in Singapore on January 4, 2022. The total COVID 19 cases were reported on Tuesday by ROSLAN RAHMAN AFP Singapore, which had 5,202 new cases of COVID - 19 on Tuesday, bringing the total to 1,801, 936.

According to the statistics released by the Ministry of Health, 407 cases were detected through PCR polymerase chain reaction tests and 4,795 through ART antigen rapid test tests.

There were 380 local transmissions and 27 imported cases among the PCR cases. There were 4,529 local transmissions and 266 imported cases among the ART cases with mild symptoms and assessed to be of low risk.

The total death toll was 1,565 as a result of five deaths from COVID - 19 on Tuesday, the ministry said.