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Singapore has reported its third death from Covid-19.
The Ministry of Health (MOH) said a 70 year-old male Singapore citizen with no recent travel history to affected places, died on Sunday.
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Thailand has 143 new coronavirus cases, bringing the total of cases since the outbreak to 1,388, the spokesman of the government’s Center for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) said on Sunday.
It also reported one new fatality, bringing Thailand’s since the outbreak started to seven.
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