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JAKARTA (XINHUA) - The COVID 19 cases
in Indonesia rose by 1,014 within one day to
37,420, with the death toll adding by 43 to
2,091, Achmad Yurianto, a Health Ministry
oficial, said at a press conference yesterday.
He said that 563 more people had been
discharged from hospitals, making the
total number of recovered patients stand
at 13,776.
The pandemic has spread to all the 34
provinces in the country.
Within the past 24 hours, no new positive
cases were found in ive provinces, namely,
Aceh, West Kalimantan, North Kalimantan,
East Nusa Tenggara and West Sulawesi.
The Indonesian government is preparing for
the new normal scheme under which the public
will be allowed to resume their routines.
Indonesia reports
1,104 new confirmed
COVID-19 cases, 43
new deaths
A heath worker takes a nasal swab sample during a public testing for the new coronavirus
conducted at a market in Bali, Indonesia. PHOTO: AP
BANGKOK (BERNAMA) – Thailand has report-
ed ive new COVID 19 cases, all Thai nation-
als who returned from Saudi Arabia, and zero
fatalities over the last 24 hours, bringing the
tally to 3,134 with 58 deaths.
In a statement yesterday, the Centre for
COVID 19 Situation Administration (CCSA)
said the ive new patients, all students aged
between 21 and 26, are undergoing 14-day
quarantine at state facilities at Chachoengsao
and Samut Prakan.
“Of the 3,134 cases in the kingdom, 2,987
have recovered and returned home while an-
other 89 remain warded,” it said.
It is the 19
th
day Thailand has not recorded
a local transmission.
Starting tomorrow, Thailand will lift a na-
tionwide curfew from 11pm to 3am and fur-
ther ease COVID 19 restrictions under its
fourth phase of relaxation.
International schools and tuition centres,
exhibitions and concerts are among business-
es and activities that will resume, but with
safety measures in place. However, all sports
competitions will be held without spectators.
Entertainment outlets as well as bath-sau-
na-massage parlours remain closed.
Meanwhile, Minister of Natural Resources
and Environment Varawut Silpa-archa said six
zoos in the kingdom will reopen for free from
tomorrow until June 30.
The six are Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Chon
Buri, Chiang Mai Zoo, Nakhon Ratchasima
Zoo, Songkhla Zoo, Khon Kaen Zoo, Ubon
Ratchathani Zoo and the Elephant Nature
Park in Surin.
“There will be a 2,000-visitor daily limit
over the two entry periods, which is 8am-
noon and noon-5pm,” he said, as quoted by
Bangkok Post
.
Meanwhile, Varawut said all 127 national
parks in Thailand are set to reopen their doors
to visitors starting tomorrowbut 28marine parks
remain closed during the monsoon season.
COVID-19: Five returning Thai
students latest patients
SINGAPORE (CNA) - The number of
COVID 19 cases in Singapore rose past
40,000 yesterday with 347 new infections
reported as of noon.
Five of the cases were in the community -
two Singaporeans or permanent residents and
three work pass holders, said the Ministry of
Health (MoH) in its daily preliminary update.
The remaining cases are work permit
holders living in foreign worker dormitories.
Yesterday’s new cases bring the total
number of COVID 19 infections in Singa-
pore to 40,197.
MoH on Thursday said a man who died
earlier this week from heart disease had
COVID 19.
The man is the eighth person who had
COVID 19 and died but was not added to
the oficial toll because the death was not
caused by the coronavirus.
Singapore’s COVID-19 cases rise past
40,000 with 347 new infections
Women walk past a display of two cultural igurines of men wearing masks in the
Chinatown district in Singapore. PHOTO: AFP
BUKIT MERTAJAM (BERNAMA) - A Myanmar
man was found murdered in a shophouse
used as a hostel for foreign workers in Kam-
pung Juru on Friday.
Seberang Perai Tengah District Police
Chief ACP Shafee Abd Samad said the body
of Amko, in his 30s, was found by his em-
ployer on the second loor of the double-
storey shophouse.
He said the employer had gone to the
place to investigate after being informed
by her workers. She alerted the police at
12.20am yesterday.
“When police arrived at the scene, Am-
ko’s four housemates, who are also Myan-
mar nationals, had led. His body was found
sprawled in a pool of blood with stab wounds
in the chest and left shoulder,” he said.
He said the ive Myanmar workers were
employed at a motorcycle spare parts shop
but did not have valid travel documents.
Shafee said the CCTV recording of a
nearby shop showed that Amko’s four house-
mates left on bicycles after the incident.
However, police arrested one of the
suspects, in his 30s, when he returned to
retrieve some belongings at 5.45am yester-
day, he said.
“The suspect confessed to stabbing the
victim with a knife because the latter was
drunk and noisy. He threw the knife away in a
recreation park after the incident,” he said.
Myanmar man found murdered in hostel
MANILA (XINHUA) - An offshore
earthquakewith apreliminarymagnitude
of ive shook Davao Oriental Province in
the southern Philippines yesterday, the
Philippine Institute of Seismology and
Volcanology (Phivolcs) said.
The institute said the quake, which
struck at 10.11am local time, hit at a depth
of 10 kilometres, about 136 kilometres
southeast of Governor Generoso town.
The institute said the quake, which
was tectonic in origin, will trigger
aftershocks but will not cause damage.
The Philippines has frequent seismic
activity due to its location along the
Paciic “Ring of Fire”.
MANILA (XINHUA) - The number of COVID 19
cases in the Philippines surged to 25,392 after
the Department of Health (DoH) reported 607
more infections yesterday.
The DoH noted in its bulletin that two
duplicate cases were removed from the total
cases of 24,787 reported on Friday.
“Total cases reported may be subject to
change as these numbers undergo constant
clearing and validation,” the DoH said.
The DoH said in its bulletin that the
number of recoveries further climbed to
5,706 after 252 more patients have survived
the disease.
The death toll increased to 1,074 after 22
more patients have succumbed to the viral
disease, the DoH added.
According to the DoH, 288 of the daily
reported cases were inMetroManila, 85 cases
in the Central Visayas region in the central
Philippines and 234 cases were reported in
the other parts of the country.
COVID-19 cases in
Philippines surge
past 25,000 with
607 new cases
5-magnitude
earthquake
rattles
southern
Philippines