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SINGAPORE – Most Home Team officers have been vaccinated against Covid-19, said Home Affairs and Law Minister K. Shanmugam on Friday (July 30). As at the end of June, about 96 per cent of medically eligible officers had received at
SINGAPORE – All residents of 556 Ang Mo Kio Avenue 10 and 510 West Coast Drive will have to undergo mandatory Covid-19 testing to uncover community infection cases. This after 17 cases were detected in those areas said the Ministry
PHNOM PENH (REUTERS) – Cambodia will begin offering a booster shot against Covid-19, switching between the AstraZeneca and Chinese Covid-19 vaccines in an effort to fight the spread of the coronavirus in the South-east Asian country. Prime Minister Hun Sen,
KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysia’s Covid-19 crisis has magnified the inadequacies in Malaysia’s public health system, thrown into focus this week by a brief walkout by contract doctors and the lack of beds at public hospitals amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Experts
BANGKOK – Lockdown measures in Bangkok and other high-risk zones will be extended for two more weeks, and more provinces will also come under the new curbs, as Covid-19 cases in Thailand surge. Provinces under the dark red zone, meaning those
JAKARTA (REUTERS) – Indonesia extended restrictions outside Java island by another week in efforts to control the spread of the coronavirus, the local media reported on Sunday (Aug 1), citing an interior ministry senior official. The highest level of restrictions
Australian officials on Monday extended a snap three-day lockdown in the city of Brisbane and some neighbouring regions while hundreds of army personnel began patrolling Sydney to help enforce COVID-19 lockdown rules. Sydney, Australia’s largest city, is into its sixth
Japanese officials expressed alarm on Thursday as Tokyo, the host city of the Olympic Games, reported a record number of new coronavirus cases for the third day in a row. “We have never experienced the expansion of the infections of
NAIROBI, Kenya — In a major breakthrough for one of the world’s last countries to embrace COVID-19 vaccines, Tanzania’s president kicked off its vaccination campaign Wednesday by publicly receiving a dose and urging others to do the same. But she
“I do think there is going to be a significant risk of transmission at a tightly packed event such as Lolla, unfortunately,” Dr. Zachary Rubin, a clinical immunologist, told ABC News’ Chicago station WLS-TV. Free masks will be available at