The Treatment Subcommittee under the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control on May 26 confirmed the 45th COVID-19- related death – a 67-year-old female with serious underlying health conditions.
Vietnamese Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son on May 19 attended the United Nations Security Council (UNSC)’s open debate on peace and security in Africa, at the invitation of State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi of China, which holds the UNSC Presidency in May.
COVID-19 pandemic continues worrying Southeast Asia Update: 20-05-2021 | 16:56:57
The Cambodian Ministry of Health on May 19 announced 393 new COVID-19 infections, including 392 domestic cases, making the national tally to surpass 23,000.
COVID-19 vaccination in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
The ministry also said that an additional 612 people were given the all-clear from coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and three more were defeated by COVID-19.
So far, the country has recorded 23,282 cases and 159 fatalities.
Meanwhile, 50 new infections, including 39 domestically-transmitted ones, were reported in Laos on May 19 afternoon, bringing the total number to 1,737.
The Southeast Asian nation has to date recorded two deaths related to the disease.
In a related move, the number of new cases in Malaysia again made a new record high when it saw 6,075 cases on May 19.
At the handover ceremony (Photo: VNA)
Prague (VNA) –
The
ASEAN Committee in the Czech Republic on May 11 presented face masks to a
district in Prague capital city in response to a call of local authorities to
help disadvantaged people to surmount COVID-19.
The handover ceremony
saw the attendance of ambassadors and representatives of six embassies of ASEAN
nations in the Czech Republic, namely Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the
Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.
The aid is part of
activities joint held by the embassies to show solidarity between ASEAN and the
Czech Republic in fighting the ravaging pandemic.
Receiving the aid,
Mayor of
A section of the Mekong River (Source: luxurycruisemekong.com)
Hanoi (VNA) - The
Mekong-Lancang Cooperation (MLC)
will continue to inject impetus into the ASEAN-China cooperation and the ASEAN
community building towards a more open, inclusive and prosperous region,
Cambodian experts said in recent interviews with China’s Xinhua News Agency.
Launched on March 23, 2016 during the first MLC
Leaders Meeting in Sanya, a resort city in south China s Hainan province, the
MLC consists of six countries, namely
China, Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand
and Vietnam.
Pou Sothirak, Executive Director of the Cambodian
Institute for Cooperation and Peace, said cooperation among the MLC countries