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12 June 2020

Disclaimer: Headlines under sections 2 and 3 consist of selected excerpts from media outlets. The inclusion of headlines does not imply endorsement by the UN who cannot be held liable for the accuracy of these reports, errors contained, nor the wording used. They do not purport to reflect the opinions or views of the UN or its members. The designations employed therein does not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the UN concerning the legal status of any country, area or territory or of its authorities.

GENERAL OVERVIEW

Country/Territory*

Confirmed Deaths Recovered Number Number

increased from last report

Number Number increased from

last report Global 7,514,559 (+154,320) 421,458 (+5,257) 3,540,696 Asia-Pacific** 938,424 (+41,609) 30,143 (+1,148) 515,210 India 297,535 (+20,952) 8,498 (+753) 147,195 Iran 180,156 (+2,218) 8,584 (+78) 142,663 Pakistan 125,933 (+12,231) 2,463 (+208) 40,247 PR China 84,216 (+7) 4,638 (+0) 79,464 Bangladesh 78,052 (+3,187) 1,049 (+37) 16,747 Singapore 39,387 (+422) 25 (+0) 27,286 Indonesia 35,295 (+979) 2,000 (+41) 12,636 Philippines 24,175 (+443) 1,036 (+9) 5,165 Afghanistan 22,890 (+748) 426 (+21) 3,326 Japan 17,187 (+41) 922 (+0) 15,233 S. Korea 12,003 (+56) 277 (+1) 10,669 Malaysia 8,369 (+31) 118 (+0) 7,065 Nepal 4,614 (+250) 15 (+0) 861 Thailand 3,129 (+4) 58 (+0) 2,987 Maldives 1,976 (+14) 8 (+0) 1,153 Sri Lanka 1,877 (+8) 11 (+0) 1,150 Taiwan* 443 (+0) 7 (+0) 431 Vietnam 332 (+0) 0 (+0) 321 Myanmar 260 (+12) 6 (+0) 165 Mongolia 197 (+3) 0 (+0) 95 Brunei 141 (+0) 2 (+0) 138 Cambodia 126 (+0) 0 (+0) 125 Bhutan 62 (+3) 0 (+0) 19 Timor-Leste 24 (+0) 0 (+0) 24 Laos 19 (+0) 0 (+0) 19 Fiji 18 (+0) 0 (+0) 18 Papua New Guinea

8 (+0) 0 (+0) 8

Samoa 0 (+0) 0 (+0) 0 N. Korea 0 (+0) 0 (+0) 0

Source: John Hopkins’ Coronavirus Resource Center 12 June https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

* The names of locations included here correspond with the source

**The numbers for Asia-Pacific are the total of numbers from country/territory in Asia-Pacific as listed.

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INFORMATION FROM COUNTRY LEVEL OFFICES

Brunei: Brunei has gone 35 consecutive days without additional cases of COVID-19; Brunei conducted

625 laboratory tests on 10 June- the highest number of diagnostic tests carried out in one day; to date,

23,293 tests have been completed.

‘Doa Kesyukuran’ ceremonies for solemnization will now be permitted, though only 20 to 30 people will be

allowed to attend the ceremonies at any one time.

A committee has been set up to discuss the possibility of establishing “green lanes” for international travel

once Brunei starts lifting its border controls, the health minister said in a press briefing on 11 June.

The number of BruHealth users has topped the government’s target of 80 percent public participation on

11 June, according to figures from the health ministry.

Indonesia: The state will issue guidance notes for religious education institutions and boarding schools (` 5million children) in the “New Normal” while Indonesian Red Cross branches have already received requests to support the disinfection works in those schools prior to the reopening. Around 28,000 Islamic schools with 18million students and 1.5million teachers across Indonesia are going to reopen before the end of July. Air passenger capacity will be stepped up gradually to 100 percent by implementing stringent health protocols at airports and in aircraft cabins, according to the Transportation Ministry. As of 12 June, Indonesia reported 35,295 confirmed cases, with 2,000 deaths and 12,636 recoveries.

Japan: On 11 June, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government lifted its “Tokyo Alert” that called for extra caution

amongst the public and businesses against a resurgence of COVID-19 infections. The government also

moved into the final phase of its three-stage roadmap for easing business suspension, as the number of

new daily cases of infection and unidentified transmission routes have remained stable and below the

monitoring threshold.

The Japanese Government is planning to allow businesspersons to enter in Japan from July, up to 250 per day from Viet Nam, Thailand, Australia and New Zealand. As of 11 June, Japan registered 17,090 confirmed cases with 15,200 recoveries and 922 deaths. Malaysia: From 3 April until 10 June, 51,422 overseas returnees have completed a 14-day quarantine: 555

positive cases have been reported.

From 12 June, the government of Perak will allow every obligatory (fard) prayer to be performed in

congregation at all mosques and suraus in the state. The number of congregants permitted have been

increased to 40 people.

SOP for schools re-opening have been released. From 24 June, secondary level students in major

examination years as well as their international equivalents can resume classes.

Maldives: As of 11 June, the Maldives reported 1,962 cases with 1,121 recoveries and 8 deaths. The state administration received assistance from Japan (US$5.6 million), the UAE ($5million), and China to strengthen health facilities to combat with new virus, and 20,000 testing kits from a private firm. The National Emergency Operations Centre (NEOC) is going to carry out random sampling tests amongst correctional officers, senior citizens, individuals living in congested communal buildings and those between 20 and 39 years old to identify the level of community spread.

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The NEOC also announced the resumption of schools “at the earliest”. Some sources close to the Health ministry said that residents of the capital, Male, will be allowed to leave their homes without permits starting from 15 June. Domestic airports will be open, and restaurants and cafes can resume takeaway and delivery services.

Myanmar: The UN in Myanmar has handed over 73,000 test kits to the Ministry of Health and Sports and

its relevant laboratory facilities. The first batch of 3,000 test reagents provided by the World Health

Organization and its partners arrived in country late March.

The Access to Health Fund, funded by the United Kingdom, Sweden, United States and Switzerland and managed by the UNOPS has handed over more than 55,000 test kits in two separate batches, complemented by 20,000 more test kits procured by UNICEF, which were delivered in two batches during the last two months. The Access to Health Fund also delivered two automated sample extraction machines to the National Health Laboratory to improve the accuracy of testing. ILO offered immediate support to representative organizations of employers and workers to establish practical responses COVID 19. This included support to trade unions in setting up an “Emergency Employment and Reskilling Centre” for garment workers who were laid off; installing COVID-19 awareness billboards and delivering hand sanitizer, masks and pamphlets to factories. In addition, the ILO is conducting a survey of impacts and needs for Small Scale Enterprises (MEs) in target sectors (food processing, hotels and restaurants). The ILO is also researching SME training needs and is developing online versions of existing SME training products while designing new training products based on the identified needs. On the issue of labour migrants, the ILO together with labour and civil society organisations in coordination with the department of Labour and the Ministry of Health and Sports (MOHS) have provided personal protective equipment (PPE) for “frontline” service providers and care packages to the returning migrants at the Thai Myanmar border as well as in communities of origin (over 63,000 people have already benefitted from this support). Additionally, more than 50,000 individuals from 34 villages in Rakhine State have received PPEs from a 10 tons shipment and dozens of handwashing facilities managed and set up by the ILO. These projects have been supported by the Livelihoods and Food Security Fund (LIFT) managed by UNOPS and the Australian Department for Foreign Affairs and Trade, in partnership with the Rakhine State Government, the Department of Labour, and the Rakhine Youth Entrepreneurs Association.

Singapore: Tychan, a Singapore-based biotechnology company has received approval from the Health

Sciences Authority for the Phase 1 clinical safety trial to use an antibody that targets COVID 19 in healthy

volunteers.

Antiviral drug ‘Remdesivir’ has been conditionally approved for the treatment of severely ill COVID 19

patients. Other drugs used in clinical trials to treat COVID-19 patients include anti-HIV drugs ‘Lopinavir’

and ‘Ritonavir’.

INFORMATION FROM PUBLIC SOURCES

Afghanistan: 748 new cases were reported on 11 June, bringing the total to 22,890.

Addressing lawmakers, acting minister of Finance on 10 June said that the World Bank and the international

community had pledged $300 million in assistance.

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Bangladesh: 3,187 new cases and 37 new deaths were reported on 11 June, bringing the total cases to

78,052 and death toll to 1,049.

Prices of masks, gloves and PPE are set to drop as the government is waiving VAT in the proposed budget

for FY 2020-21; Allocation for mega projects under the Ministry of Road Transport and Bridges and Ministry

of Railways are facing fund cuts.

Cambodia: Minister of Health Mam Bun Heng on 10 June denied Vietnam’s claim that a Vietnamese youth

who tested positive for Covid-19 had come from Cambodia.

The European Union (EU) on 11 June announced it has mobilized €443 million (roughly $483 million) in

grants and loans to support Cambodia’s effort in dealing with the economic and social consequences of

COVID-19.

On 10 June, Prime Minister Hun Sen had a telephone conversation with Indian prime minister Narendra

Modi.

Local businesses have reacted with confusion over the new “expensive and strict” fixed-price quarantine

requirements for foreigners arriving in Cambodia which were announced by the Ministry of Economy and

Finance this week.

Fiji: 6 people will be tried in court on 12 June for breaching curfew restrictions.

India: 9,996 new cases and 357 new deaths were reported as of 11 June, bringing the total cases to

286,579 and deaths to 8,102.

India has lifted an export ban on hydroxychloroquine.

Iran: 2,238 new cases and 78 deaths were reported on 11 June, bringing the total to 180,156 cases and

8,584 deaths.

Laos: Japan has pledged more than US$3 million (more than 26.9 billion kip) to Laos to strengthen the

Covid-19 preparedness and response capacity.

Mongolia: 3 new cases were reported on 12 June, bringing the total to 197.

Nepal: 250 new cases were reported on 11 June, bringing the total to 4,614. Death toll remains at 15.

Private clinics, all kinds of agriculture and animal related businesses, stores that sell essential foodstuffs

and transport goods will be allowed to open immediately. Private vehicles are also allowed on the streets

from Friday onwards, on an odd-even basis.

Pakistan: 6,397 new cases and 107 deaths were reported on 12 June, bringing the total to 125,933 cases

and 2,463 deaths.

Budget deficit is expected to exceed the target of 7.5 percent of GDP and may go to 9.4 percent of GDP.

Parliamentary Secretary for Health Services Dr Nousheen Hamid said on 11 June that Pakistan was

conducting 27,000 COVID 19 tests every day while its 107 laboratories had the capacity to undertake

46,000 tests per day.

Papua New Guinea: no cases for the last 44 days.

The Parliament of the autonomous region of Bougainville has voted to extend the State of Emergency for

another 2 months.

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Philippines: 443 new cases and 9 new deaths were reported on 11 June, bringing the total to 24,175 cases

and 1,036 deaths.

Interior Secretary Eduardo Año thinks it may be best to keep Metro Manila under general community

quarantine after June 15 to hold off a spike in COVID-19 infections.

PR China: 7 new cases- including one local transmission case (0 deaths) were reported on 11 June.

Taiwan: Taiwan has donated 500,000 surgical masks, 50,000 N95 masks, 20,000 isolation suits, and 5,000

protective gowns to the Philippines government and private sector organizations.

The National Taiwan University has urged the government to lift restrictions on foreign students.

ROK: 56 new cases and 1 death were reported on 12 June, bringing the total to 12,003 cases and 277

deaths.

The Ministry of Education on 12 June extended a measure to reduce classroom crowding. Elementary and

middle schools are required to cap the number of students at one-third and high schools at two-thirds

David Kaye, the UN special rapporteur on freedom of expression, positively evaluated South Korea's

transparent use of personal information for the purpose of tracing.

Sri Lanka: 8 new cases were reported on 11 June, bringing the total to 1,877, while the death toll stands

at 11.

The final decision on the re-opening of universities will be delivered on 13 June.

According to the Ministry of Foreign Relations, comprehensive measures taken by the Ministry, in close

coordination with key Government economic agencies and the private sector to address and mitigate the

impact of COVID-19 particularly on Sri Lankan exports, has helped in sustaining and regaining lost markets

for traditional Sri Lankan exports, while enabling new opportunities.

Thailand: Four more ‘imported’ cases were reported in Thailand on 12 June, which was zero a day before.

Currently, there are 3,121 cases including 2,987 (95%) recoveries and 58 deaths. No locally transmitted

cases reported over the last 18 days.

The state operator of intercity bus services has announced the recommencement the services on most of

their routes across the country; however, foreign travelers will not be allowed to board.

Classes will be split, and students will go to school on alternate days when the new term starts in July.

The government is likely to allow alcohol to be served at restaurants, to resume concerts and closed-venue

sports and saunas to reopen in the 4th phase of lifting restrictions from 15 June.

Vietnam: With no reported cases, the total remains at 332.

Vietnam Airlines has announced plans to reopen international air routes from 1 July to several destinations

in the Republic of Korea (RoK), Taiwan, Hong Kong and across Southeast Asia.

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Regional

According to data compiled by the Anadolu Agency, a total of 12,454 health workers in the Asia-Pacific region have tested positive for COVID 19 and 171 have died. Chinese ambassador to ASEAN- Deng Xi Jun underlined China’s willingness to work ASEAN on the research and development of COVID 19 vaccines. Global

COVID-19 Raises Extreme Poverty: A document published by the United Nations University World

Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) calculates that the COVID 19 would push

an extra 395 million people into extreme poverty and increase the number of those living with less than

$1.90 a day worldwide to more than one billion. This document also says that under the worst scenario - a

20 percent contraction in per capita income or consumption - the number of those living in extreme poverty

could rise to 1.12 billion. The same contraction, applied to the $5.50 threshold among upper-middle-income

countries, could see more than 3.7 billion people - or just over half the world's population - live below this

poverty line.

Increased Child Labour: A new report coming from the International Labour Organization and UNICEF

highlighted that the current pandemic may push millions of children into child labour mostly in exploitative

and hazardous jobs.

The report further reads that vulnerable populations – like migrant workers and those working in the informal

economy –will be hit hardest.

COVID-19 Situation in Africa: The WHO Representative to Africa on 11 June said that the community

transmission has broken out across more than half of Africa's 54 countries and is moving fast. It took 98

days for the continent to reach 100,000 coronavirus cases, but within 18 days, it reached the second

100,000-marks.

Brazil: surpassed 800,000 cases with 30,412 new cases reported on 11 June; 40,919 deaths so far. Of the

total confirmed cases, 345,595 have recovered to date.

The state health administration has authorized 5,173 medical students who are nearing completion of their

studies to graduate to practice as doctors to tackle the current pandemic.

One leading biomedical research center (Butantan) announced an agreement with China’s Sinovac Biotech

Ltd to potentially produce a vaccine against COVID 19.

France: The number of new cases continued to drop. France is maintaining physical distancing and

protection measures – with the number of additional deaths down to its lowest figure since March. The

number of new admissions to emergency units was 20 in the last 24 hours and has not been above fifty in

the last three weeks.

France has reported 29,319 deaths and 192,493 cases to date.

Italy: With 379 new cases, the national tally increased to 236,142 with 34,167 deaths and 171,338

recoveries. The state authorities are working to reopen schools in September.

Russia: With 8,779 new infections recorded on 11 June, the country’s official number of cases rose to

502,436 including 6,532 deaths.

The state health authorities have distributed the first batch of ‘Avifavir’, to some hospitals.

St. Petersburg has a shortage of hospital beds for COVID 19 patients.

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Russian Railways will resume regular service of high-speed trains between Moscow and St. Petersburg

starting 24 June.

Spain: The government has announced that the compulsory 14-day quarantine for overseas arrivals would

end by 1 July.

A total of 242,707 cases including 27,136 deaths and 150,376 recoveries have been reported to date.

UK: A leading epidemiologist from the Imperial College London said that the country's death toll could have

been halved if lockdown had been introduced a week earlier. The UK has more than 292,000 cases and at

least 41,300 deaths.

US: A vaccine for COVID-19 developed by biotech firm Moderna will enter the third and final stage of its

clinical trial in July with 30,000 participants.

The US reported 2,023,347 cases 113,820 deaths and 540,000 recoveries as of 11 June.

The following table illustrates the comparison of data for last two days among countries that have so far

been registered with more than 20,000 cases globally as of 11 June. Countries # of cases

on 10 June # of cases on 11 June

# of Deaths on 10 June

# of Deaths on 11 June

Recovered on 10 June

Recovered On 11 June

US 2,000,464 2,023,385 112,924 113,818 533,504 540,292

Brazil 772,416 802,828 39,680 40,919 413,916 429,965

Russia 493,023 501,800 6,350 6,522 252,295 260,649

India 276,583 297,535 7,745 8,498 135,206 147,197

United Kingdom

291,588 292,860 41,213 41,364 1,269 1,278

Spain 242,280 242,707 27,136 27,136 150,376 150,376

Italy 235,763 236,142 34,114 34,167 169,939 171,338

Peru 208,823 214,788 5,903 6,088 98,031 102,429

France 192,068 192,493 29,322 29,349 71,952 72,269

Germany 186,522 186,691 8,752 8,772 170,630 170,961

Iran 177,938 180,156 8,506 8,584 140,590 142,663

Turkey 173,036 174,023 4,746 4,763 146,839 147,860

Chile 148,456 154,092 2,475 2,648 121,780 126,444

Mexico 129,184 133,974 15,357 15,944 93,930 97,198

Pakistan 113,702 125,933 2,255 2,463 36,308 40,247

Saudi Arabia 112,288 116,021 819 857 77,954 80,019

Canada 98,720 99,159 7,970 8,071 56,121 58,131

PR China 84,198 84,209 4,638 4,638 79,451 79,456

Bangladesh 74,865 78,052 1,012 1,049 15,900 16,747

Qatar 73,595 75,071 66 69 49,413 51,331

Belgium 59,569 59,711 9,629 9,636 16,392 16,453

South Africa 55,421 58,568 1,210 1,284 31,505 33,252

Belarus 51,066 51,816 288 293 25,667 26,643

Netherlands 48,294 48,458 6,050 6,063 181 181

Sweden 46,814 48,288 4,795 4,814 TBC TBC

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Countries # of cases on 10 June

# of cases on 11 June

# of Deaths on 10 June

# of Deaths on 11 June

Recovered on 10 June

Recovered On 11 June

Ecuador 44,440 44,440 3,720 3,720 21,862 21,862

Columbia 42,206 43,810 1,373 1,505 16,459 17,366

UAE 40,507 40,986 284 286 24,017 25,234

Egypt 38,284 39,726 1,342 1,377 10,289 10,691

Singapore 38,965 39,387 25 25 26,532 27,286

Portugal 35,600 35,910 1,497 1,504 21,742 22,002

Indonesia 34,316 35,295 1,959 2,000 12,129 12,636

Kuwait 33,823 34,432 275 279 23,288 24,137

Switzerland 31,011 31,044 1,936 1,937 28,700 28,800

Ukraine 29,004 29,706 841 864 13,249 13,642

Poland 27,842 28,201 1,206 1,215 13,411 13,696

Argentina 25,987 27,373 735 765 7,991 8,332

Ireland 25,231 25,238 1,695 1,703 22,698 22,698

Philippines 23,732 24,175 1,027 1,036 4,895 5,165

Afghanistan 22,142 22,890 405 426 3,013 3,326

Dominican Republic

20,808 21,437 550 561 12,318 12,541

Romania 20,945 21,182 1,360 1,369 15,103 15,283

Source: John Hopkins’ Coronavirus Resource Center 12 June; https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html