The number of coronavirus infections in Southeast Asia has risen quickly in recent weeks, with mounting worries among experts that the region could turn into the next hot spot.
While the region's tally is still far off the hundreds of thousands seen in the
But experts have mostly singled out Indonesia and the Philippines as countries that they're concerned about because of their large population.
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