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TOKYO (REUTERS) – Japan decided on Friday (July 30)to expand states of emergency to three prefectures near Olympic host Tokyo and the western prefecture of Osaka, as Covid-19 cases spike in the capital and around the country, overshadowing the Summer
At a school in Pataudi in India’s Haryana state, a “welcome back to school” message is written on a whiteboard at the entrance. But Mr Rashtriya Aman Mudgal, whose family started the private Navjivan Middle School, is not sure how
BANGKOK (REUTERS) – A Thai hospital morgue overwhelmed by Covid-19 deaths has begun storing bodies in refrigerated containers, resorting to a measure it last took in a devastating 2004 tsunami, as the country grapples with its biggest coronavirus outbreak. Thailand
SYDNEY (REUTERS) – Australia’s east coast states of New South Wales and Queensland faced an escalating battle against the Covid-19 Delta variant on Sunday (Aug 1), with millions under strict lockdown and authorities urging more testing and vaccinations to rein
BEIJING (BLOOMBERG) – China is studying if it is necessary to give booster Covid-19 vaccine shots to vulnerable groups such as the elderly, people with underlying diseases and those who work in high-risk areas. There is not enough evidence yet
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Imagine a Covid-19 vaccine that came as a pill: no needles, no medical professionals required to administer it, potentially delivered directly to people’s homes. Israeli pharmaceutical Oramed is attempting to accomplish just that, and is poised to
I hate that I believe the sentence I’m about to write. It undermines much of what I spend my life trying to do. But there is nothing more overrated in politics – and perhaps in life – than the power
LONDON (REUTERS) – Pfizer and Moderna have raised the prices of their Covid-19 vaccines in their latest European Union supply contracts, the Financial Times reported on Sunday (Aug 1). The new price for the Pfizer shot was 19.50 euros (S$31.34
SINGAPORE – More vaccinated people who have Covid-19 – but with no or mild symptoms – will be admitted directly to community care facilities instead of going first to hospitals, said Health Minister Ong Ye Kung. Fully vaccinated people with
SINGAPORE – People who are severely immunocompromised can now receive the Covid-19 vaccine, said the Expert Committee on Covid-19 Vaccination on Wednesday (July 28). Updating its recommendation for this group, the committee said data has shown vaccination is safe and