Tag: Covid-19 Asia
Southeast Asia’s migrant workers face Covid-19 tragedy
Michael Sainsbury In Singapore, the surprise recent spike in Covid-19 coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) infections and then…
Secretive Laos reports only a few Covid-19 cases
BANGKOK (UCAN): Laos has remained largely unscathed by the Covid-19 coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic, the country’s…
Posted in Asia
Sri Lanka’s Muslims angered by forced Covid-19 cremations
COLOMBO (UCAN): Sri Lanka made cremations compulsory for Covid-19 coronavirus (SARS-Cov-2) victims on April 12,…
Thai medical frontliners ill-equipped and overworked
BANGKOK (UCAN): Medical workers on the front lines of Thailand’s fight against the Covid-19 coronavirus…
Myanmar’s Muslims observe Ramadan at home
MANDALAY (UCAN): Muslims in Myanmar are observing Ramadan, Islam’s holiest month, at homesunder a nationwide…
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Young Indonesian Catholics reach out to virus-hit families
JAKARTA (UCAN): Catholic Youth, an Indonesian youth organisation formed, Adopt One Brother, a solidarity movement…
Posted in The Philippines
Duterte deploys military against quarantine violators
MANILA (UCAN): Philippine president, Rodrigo Duterte, ratcheted up his government’s efforts against the Covid-19 coronavirus…
