Asean reported over 21,000 new Covid-19 cases on Tuesday
The number of Covid-19 cases crossed 14.79 million across Southeast Asia, with 21,863 new cases reported on Tuesday (December 28). New deaths are at 309, bringing accumulated Covid-19 deaths in Asean to 303,409.
Indonesia on Tuesday announced its first locally transmitted Omicron case in capital Jakarta, pushing the government to be more vigilant in tracking the spread of the virus. The patient is a male aged 37 years old, with no history of overseas travel in the last few months, nor any contact with international visitors.
With this new patient, the total number of Covid-19 cases of the Omicron variant stands at 47, including 45 international travelers and a worker at a quarantine center.
Meanwhile, Vietnam on Tuesday has detected its first Covid-19 case of Omicron variant in a quarantine facility in the capital Hanoi. The patient arrived in Hanoi on December 19 from Britain and tested positive for Covid-19. He was immediately transferred to a quarantine center under a hospital in the capital while his sample was sent for genome sequencing test. The result achieved on December 21 confirmed that he had the Omicron variant.
The government of the capital Hanoi on Monday mandated that everyone arriving in the city from the countries and regions, where the Omicron variant has been detected, should be put under quarantine regardless of their vaccination or recovery status.
