- Title
- The COVID-19 pandemic in the ASEAN: A preliminary report on the spread, burden and medical capacities
- Creator
- Hoang, Minh; Nguyen, Phuong; Tran, Thao; Khuong, Long; Nguyen, Huy
- Date
- 2020
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/183732
- Identifier
- vital:16341
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.4103/1995-7645.284644
- Identifier
- ISBN:1995-7645 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- Objective: To provide preliminary descriptions of the spread, burden and related medical capacity characteristics of the ASEAN countries. Methods: We utilized the data from four main official databases, including WHO reports, the Statistics and Research of the Coronavirus Disease, and the Southeast Asia Program of the Center for Strategic and International Study. The spread of the COVID- 19 pandemic, current burden and the COVID-19 medical response capacities were extracted before April 11, 2020. Results: As of April 13, 2020, the ASEAN countries reported 19 547 COVID-19 positive cases with 817 deaths (case-facility rate of 4.2%). Thailand was the first country in the region that reported having the COVID-19 cases, while Laos was the last to report confirmed COVID-19 cases. Durations for the number of deaths to double were between 8-12 days. For the testing and treatment capacities, the number of PCR tests provided to the populations was the highest in Vietnam, followed by Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand. Meanwhile, the percentage of the population being tested was the highest in Brunei (2.31%), followed by Singapore (1.30%). Conclusions: A wide range of interventions were taken into practice in response to the outbreak with an effort of curbing the rise of this pandemic. However, special care should not be overlooked as the pandemic is placing a huge impact on the population and becomes increasingly unpredictable. To tackle the spread of the pandemic in the region, the ASEAN countries should work together as one community to provide better responses to future pandemics and other transboundary public health challenges. © 2020 Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine Produced by Wolters Kluwer-Medknow. All rights reserved. **Please note that there are multiple authors for this article therefore only the name of the first 5 including Federation University Australia affiliate “Huy Nguyen” is provided in this record**
- Publisher
- Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
- Relation
- Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine Vol. 13, no. 6 (2020), p. 247-251
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/),
- Rights
- Copyright ©2020 Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine. Produced by Wolters KluwerMedknow. All rights reserved. This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
- Rights
- Open Access
- Subject
- 3202 Clinical Sciences; 4208 Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine; ASEAN; COVID-19; Epidemiology; SARS-CoV-2; South-East Asia
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