ASEAN countries will focus on treating COVID–19 as an endemic.
“This is a point at which these countries have either explicitly, like Singapore and others, or implicitly recognised the need to move from the pandemic approach of trying to get to zero to an endemic approach,” said Associate Professor Simon Tay, Chairman of the SIIA, in the article by Bangkok Post. The article covers key takeaways from the SIIA’s recent webinar, where it featured our report, “From Crisis to Endemic: Stumbling or Pressing Ahead?”, examining how key ASEAN economies – Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam – are coping with the pandemic alongside key economic and political challenges.
