Health

Health • STORY OF THE DAY • Jul 30, 2020 • 7 min read

Tales of the Pandemic The long way home: State quarantine in a Bangkok hotel

By Wanpen Pajai • Jul 30, 2020
Last week, Globe reporter Wanpen Pajai returned to her native Thailand from the Netherlands. Beyond bureaucratic hoops, stringent health checks and now state quarantine, along the way she has also encountered human stories from people impacted by the pandemic

Health • STORY OF THE DAY • Jul 13, 2020 • 9 min read

Covid-19 As tourist numbers dwindle, food security on the mind of Bali’s residents

By Elizabeth Sinclair • Jul 13, 2020
As the economy of tourist-reliant Bali struggles through the pandemic, food security is increasingly on the minds of the Indonesian island's residents. With uncertainty lying ahead, many people are having to rethink their long-term approach to feeding themselves

Health • STORY OF THE DAY • Jul 10, 2020 • 15 min read

Thailand Diving back in: Speaking to the Tham Luang cave rescue team two years on

By Alexi Demetriadi • Jul 10, 2020
In July 2018, the world's attention was gripped by the plight of 12 plucky young boys and their football coach trapped in a cave in Thailand. Two years on, the rescue team that saved the 'Wild Boars' recount the events of that day

Health • Jul 02, 2020 • 6 min read
The Quarantine Chronicles

Entry 2.5: Quarantine Matters with Alexi Demetriadi

As Globe reporter Alexi Demetriadi nears the end of his Phnom Penh quarantine experience, he touches base with Alexi Demetriadi in a no-holds-barred interview to hear about how its gone, and what travellers coming to Cambodia should know
By Alexi Demetriadi • Jul 02, 2020

Health • Jul 02, 2020 • 7 min read
Covid-19

[Photos] A Cambodian community’s struggle to survive virus economic fallout

Since the outbreak of Covid-19, Cambodia’s urban-poor communities have suffered severe economic shocks and fallen further into poverty. Without a secure social security safety net to fall back on, many are now relying on NGOs to keep them afloat
By Christine Redmond • Jul 02, 2020

Health • Jul 01, 2020 • 4 min read
Covid-19

Pandemic-fuelled baby boom has many Indonesians worried

As lockdowns cut access to contraception across Indonesia, the country's authorities are warning of a post-Covid-19 baby boom that could see at least 400,000 more births than usual by next year
By Dessy Sagita/Agence France-Presse • Jul 01, 2020

Health • Jun 29, 2020 • 11 min read
Covid-19

In Siem Reap, locals take to two wheels to escape virus monotony

As the trails of Temple Town are freed from hoards of tourists, out-of-work and exercise-starved locals are reclaiming Siem Reap's once-crowded tarmac and taking to two wheels to escape the virus monotony
By Brian Badzmierowski • Jun 29, 2020

Health • Jun 25, 2020 • 6 min read
The Quarantine Chronicles

Entry one: Down and Out in Sydney and Phnom Penh

Globe reporter Alexi is stuck in quarantine for two-weeks in the outskirts of Phnom Penh after his flight returned a positive case of Covid-19. In his first diary entry from isolation, he talks swabs, Russian Boulevard and Avicii
By Alexi Demetriadi • Jun 25, 2020

Health • Jun 02, 2020 • 3 min read
Covid-19

First Rohingya refugee dies from coronavirus in Bangladesh

A Bangladeshi health official confirmed that a 71-year-old Rohingya refugee is the first recorded person to die from Covid-19 in the country's crowded refugee camps in Cox's Bazar
By Shafiqul Alam/Agence France-Presse • Jun 02, 2020

Health • May 31, 2020 • 7 min read
Refugee rights

Across Indonesia, latest Covid-19 surge adds to woes of refugees in limbo

Indonesia's sizeable population of refugees – living in limbo awaiting resettlement without healthcare, employment, nutrition and social distancing – now fear what effect Covid-19 could have on their community following a confirmed case in mid-May
By JN Joniad • May 31, 2020

Health • May 28, 2020 • 12 min read
UXO victims

In Laos, survivors of US bombs rebuild their lives – and limbs

A nine-year US campaign from 1964-73 made Laos the most bombed nation on earth, contaminating millions of hectares of land with explosives. Five decades on, thousands of UXO victims, some recent and some from decades past, work to piece their lives together
By Michael Hart • May 28, 2020