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On May 11, Gambia was in the middle of a week-long nationwide vaccination outreach campaign to get its citizens vaccinated against COVID-19.

Asean countries have agreed to mutually recognise Covid-19 vaccination certificates to facilitate seamless and safe cross-border travel, says the Malaysian Health Ministry.

The Public Health Ministry will allow people to return to their hometowns during the Songkran festival this year as most citizens have been vaccinated, Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said on Tuesday.

Masking is a tool in the tool kit, but there is no substitute for vaccination and boosting, says a physician.

The Disease Control Department on Wednesday urged parents to make sure their children do not exercise during the first seven days after they receive an mRNA vaccine against the Covid-19 virus.

He also encouraged parents to get their children vaccinated as the government had approved the vaccination of kids aged 5 to 11.

Minister of Public Health Anutin Charnvirakul on Wednesday said that the Sinopharm and Sinovac vaccines would be approved for children aged three years on Friday.

New Covid-19 clusters have emerged in a number of schools nationwide after the Education Ministry allowed them to reopen.

The national government has already given clearance to Manila to use the zoo, Faye Orellana, chief of the Manila Public Information Office, told in a text message on Saturday.

Fully vaccinated foreign tourists and travelers on business will be allowed in the country without having to go through government quarantine starting next month, Malacañang announced on Friday.

Administrating different types of Covid-19 vaccines provides high immunity against the virus and reduces the death rate, expert virologist Dr Yong Poovorawan said in a Facebook post on Wednesday.

The Public Health Ministry on Saturday approved plans to administer a fourth Covid-19 jab in February to people living in 10 tourism pilot provinces.