Covid 19 South East Asia Statistics - Covid-19 Realtime Info
Data from the department of healths covid 19 trackers showed the philippines has so far conducted 2147 tests as of march 26 2020.
Covid 19 south east asia statistics. The philippines lags behind its neighbors in southeast asia in terms of the number of covid 19 tests conducted. But covid 19 has not. With south east asia reporting more than 480 cases of covid 19 and eight deaths the world health organization who on tuesday called for countries to act now and urgently scale up aggressive measures to tackle the disease. Commentary the latest on covid 19 in southeast asia.
Southeast asia was one of the first regions affected due to its close geographical proximity and business travel tourism and supply chain links to china. The country saw six new cases on august 26 taking the total to 9291. July 29 2020 july 29 2020 southeast asias covid 19 recovery has now split into three distinct. Covid 19 spreads in the region as indonesia reports cases indonesia reported its first two cases of covid 19 on 2 march 2020 and india and thailand reported new cases.
The covid 19 pandemic began in asia in wuhan hubei china and has spread widely through the continentas of 8 june 2020 at least one case of covid 19 had been reported in every country in asia except north korea and turkmenistan. The country has 16 cases. Read more on laos. Seven months since the first covid 19 case was reported in southeast asia and five months since lockdowns of various kinds and names became part of everyones lives a good number of people are experiencing fatigue over figures an overload of statistics around the pandemic.
As of 21 april there were 2470436 cases worldwide and over 31000 cases. And for the most part the region seems unimpressed. Thailand also reported its first death from the disease a 35 year old thai male. Malaysia saw seven new cases on august 24 taking its total to 9274.
The covid 19 pandemic in southeast asia is part of the ongoing worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 covid 19 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 sars cov 2it was confirmed to have spread to southeast asia on 13 january 2020 when a 61 year old woman from wuhan tested positive in thailand making it the first country beside china to report a case. Chinas missteps in pandemic diplomacy present a strategic opportunity for the united states but one washington has been slow to seize. On 30 january 2020 the world health organization who declared the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in the peoples republic of china a global health emergency. 18 people are now positive for covid 19.
Five countries in the who south east asia region now india indonesia nepal thailand and sri lanka have now reported 52 confirmed cases of. Countries with the highest numbers of confirmed coronavirus cases are india iran turkey pakistan and saudi arabia.