Finance ministers and central bank governors from G20 members will gather from Feb. 17 to 18 for their first meeting this year under the Indonesian presidency in Jakarta, despite a steady increase in daily Covid-19 cases.
The Philippines' Department of Health (DOH) reported 2,730 new Covid-19 infections on Monday, pushing the number of confirmed cases in the South-East Asian country to 3,639,942.
Vietnam recorded 29,413 new Covid-19 cases on Monday, the highest daily infections in the country since the beginning of the pandemic, up by 3,034 cases from Sunday, its ministry of health said.