Health

Health • STORY OF THE DAY • Apr 23, 2020 • 4 min read

Covid-19 Vietnam relaxes virus restrictions as cases plateau

By Tran Thi Minh Ha and Alice Philipson • Apr 23, 2020
Vietnam eased social distancing measures on April 23, with experts pointing to the government's decisive response involving mass quarantines and expansive contact tracing for the apparent success in containing Covid-19 in the communist country

Health • STORY OF THE DAY • Apr 20, 2020 • 7 min read

Tales of the Pandemic The quiet before Ramadan in Yogyakarta

By Harriet Crisp • Apr 20, 2020
Each year, Ramadan witnesses one of the world's great migrations of people as worshippers return home for the Islamic holy month. In Yogyakarta, Indonesia an unease about what people may bring with them is overshadowing this year's celebrations

Health • STORY OF THE DAY • Apr 20, 2020 • 6 min read

Tales of the Pandemic Stuck in Phnom Penh, a final goodbye is taken away

By Alastair McCready • Apr 20, 2020
With the Covid-19 death toll reaching into the hundreds-of-thousands, the people behind the figures become easily obscured. Here, the Globe's editor Alastair McCready talks about losing his father this month, unable to speak to or visit him in the south London isolation ward where he passed

Health • STORY OF THE DAY • Apr 16, 2020 • 9 min read

Water security ‘Covid-19 exposes the great inequality in Cambodian water access’

By Horn Chanvoitey • Apr 16, 2020
While Covid-19 has been labelled the 'great leveller' by many due to the diverse nature of those infected, Horn Chanvoitey of Cambodian think-tank Future Forum argues that it exposes one of the Kingdom's great inequalities: access to clean water

Health • Apr 14, 2020 • 5 min read
Covid-19

Saving lives on the frontline, Filipino nurses still face abuse and stigma

While undertaking life-saving work for little pay, frontline healthcare workers in the Philippines say they are still suffering from physical attacks, a lack of protective equipment and are stigmatised in their communities due to virus fears
By Miriam Deprez • Apr 14, 2020

Health • Apr 14, 2020 • 10 min read
Wildlife conservation

After the virus, will Southeast Asia’s bushmeat trade finally be stopped?

Bushmeat has been thrust into the spotlight following the likely outbreak of Covid-19 at a wet market in Wuhan. But the trade is not limited to China, with conservationists in Southeast Asia warning of the grave risks involved with the region's ongoing wildlife industry
By Andrew Haffner • Apr 14, 2020

Health • Apr 13, 2020 • 1 min read
Covid-19

‘Medibot’ to do rounds on Malaysian virus wards

Engineers at the International Islamic University in Malaysia have created a robot to assist health workers treat patients and check temperatures, something they hope will reduce their risk of contracting Covid-19
By Agence France-Presse • Apr 13, 2020

Health • Apr 13, 2020 • 9 min read
Tales of the Pandemic

The view from inside Singapore’s migrant dorms

In April, Singapore put several dormitories housing 20,000 migrant workers under lockdown to control the spread of Covid-19, prompting criticism about conditions. Writer and Bangladeshi migrant worker Md Sharif Uddin gives his account from inside
By Md Sharif Uddin • Apr 13, 2020

Health • Apr 07, 2020 • 4 min read
Covid-19

Indonesian prisoners dread virus outbreak

In Indonesia's prisons, overcrowding, poor ventilation and deficient health, hygiene and sanitation conditions offer the perfect breading ground for a Covid-19 outbreak
By Agence France-Presse • Apr 07, 2020

Health • Apr 07, 2020 • 9 min read
Covid-19

‘Cambodian healthcare will be overwhelmed by outbreak’

As Covid-19 cases rise, healthcare systems in the most developed nations have struggled to cope. Horn Chanvoitey of Future Forum warns that Cambodia's chronically underfunded healthcare system will also be overwhelmed if an outbreak occurs
By Horn Chanvoitey • Apr 07, 2020

Health • Apr 03, 2020 • 4 min read

Before the Storm Hits

WFP cash assistance in the Philippines helps communities prepare better and recover quicker
By World Food Programme • Apr 03, 2020

Health • Apr 02, 2020 • 4 min read
Covid-19

Masks are everywhere in Asia, but have they helped?

It's a debate that has raged ever since Covid-19 was declared a global pandemic – are face masks effective in preventing transmission or do they create more health risks than they solve?
By Chia Chi Hsu • Apr 02, 2020