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Southeast Asian countries, including those that successfully controlled the coronavirus last year, are struggling to contain the recent outbreak, because new virus variants and shortages of vaccines have made people out of reach.
Since April 1, the cumulative number of cases in Thailand has more than tripled to nearly 130,000, due to the spread of infections in cramped prisons, densely populated areas of the capital and construction sites.
In the neighborhood Malaysia, An on-site intensive care unit is being built to cope with the increase in severely ill patients, and a hospital changed its transport container to a temporary morgue due to an overrun of its facilities. The country reported nearly 7,000 cases on Sunday.
Vietnam and Singapore -Widely acclaimed for its success in containing the coronavirus-also raced to contain the cluster virus and adopted lockdown measures.
The number of cases is far below the peaks in other parts of the world, but health experts say the outbreak is a warning signal that vaccines must be distributed more evenly.