August 21, Covid-19 Update from Asia

Community transmission, clusters of cases, sporadic cases and no cases. In the Philippines and Indonesia (where in-person services are suspended except for emergencies), the World Health Organization (WHO) gives the transmission classification of “Community Transmission” which is the same classification as the United States and the United Kingdom. Cases reported in the past 24 hours […]

August 14, Covid-19 Update From Asia

Despite the grim milestone reached globally for new cases this week, Asia continues to operate within the ever-changing parameters dictated by the pandemic.  We remain operational for service delivery with severe challenges only in three countries: India, Indonesia and the Philippines. Australia this week implemented new domestic travel and quarantine requirements for travel between domestic states.  […]

July 31, Covid-19 Update from Asia

Some progress has been made in the Philippines and Japan this week as the former plans to allow Long-term Visa holders to reenter starting August first and the latter is providing a narrow entry capabilities but only for select foreigners. Both India and Myanmar have extended their nationwide measures to control the virus through until […]