Coronavirus curbs all over across South-East Asia

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SINGAPORE/JAKARTA/KUALA LUMPUR/BANGKOK: Malaysia deployed the army on Sunday to enforce a two-week curb on travel on a country that has South-East Asia's highest number of coronavirus cases, most of them linked to a mass religious gathering held late last month. The virus has so far infected more than 3,460 people across South-East Asia, with 86 deaths, more than half of them in the region's most populous country, Indonesia.

Resients waiting at a bus station to go back to their homes, after the government shut down all the shopping centers in the country due to the coronavirus outbreak, in Bangkok, on Sunday . - Reuters

After Malaysia imposed stringent travel restrictions on Wednesday in the face of an upsurge in cases, Singapore and Vietnam both announced bans on foreigners entering the countries, with cases brought from outside on the rise. About 63% of Malaysia's 1,306 cases are linked to a Feb 27-March 1 Islamic gathering at a mosque near the capital Kuala Lumpur attended by people from more than two dozen countries.

The person who brought the infection may have been from overseas, he said. Some 1,500 participants were from abroad.Indonesia announced 10 more deaths - bringing the total number there to 48. In the Philippines, the death toll rose by six to 25. As of Friday, Indonesia had tested 1,898 people or around seven tests per one million people. Singapore said it had carried out tests on 25,000 people by Friday - about 4,500 tests per million people.

 

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