[ad_1] WASHINGTON, March 8: TThe enormous impact that Covid-19 has had on women in some countries could result in an additional 10 million child marriages this decade, according to a new analysis released Monday by Unicef. “School closures, economic stress, service interruptions, pregnancy and the death of parents due to …
Read More »Austria suspends batch of AstraZeneca vaccine after one death
[ad_1] Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz speaks about vaccine research and production in Vienna on March 5 (AP photo) ZURICH: Austrian authorities suspended inoculations with a batch of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine as a precautionary measure while they investigated the death of one person and the illness of another after the injections, …
Read More »Austria suspends batch of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine after death
[ad_1] ZURICH (Reuters) – Austrian authorities suspended inoculations with a batch of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine as a precaution while investigating the death of one person and the illness of another after the injections, a health agency said on Sunday. “The Federal Office for Safety in Health Care (BASG) has received …
Read More »Covid-19: Sarawak registers 201 new cases, no deaths today
[ad_1] Sarawak registered 201 new Covid-19 cases today, bringing the total number of positive cases in the state to 11,096 cases, says SDMC. – Stock Photo KUCHING (March 7): Sarawak registered 201 new Covid-19 cases today, bringing the total number of positive cases in the state to 11,096 cases, the …
Read More »Almost 3 million people signed up for Covid-19 vaccination
[ad_1] KUALA LUMPUR, March 7: A total of 2,990,577 people have signed up for MySejahtera’s application to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, as of 8 a.m. today. The director general of health, Tan Sri Dr. Noor Hisham Abdulllah, through an infographic, shared on his official Twitter account, said that since the …
Read More »New Zealand’s Auckland emerges from week-long coronavirus lockdown
[ad_1] 7 OF MARCH: Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city, emerged on Sunday from a strict week-long lockdown imposed after a community group of the UK’s most contagious variant of the coronavirus. No new local Covid-19 cases were recorded on Sunday, health officials said, allowing restrictions to be eased. If no …
Read More »Ismail Sabri: EMCO at Kg Serumah Siburan, Serian, Sarawak from March 7 to 20
[ad_1] KUALA LUMPUR: An enhanced motion control (MCO) order was imposed on Kampung Serumah Daerah Kecil Siburan in Serian, Sarawak from Sunday (March 7) to March 20. Chief Minister (Security) Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob said that as of Friday (March 5), a total of 416 tests had been conducted …
Read More »Tengku Zafrul: Government leveraging more data for effective aid
[ad_1] KUALA LUMPUR: The government is leveraging more data collected by various ministries to reduce its assistance to individuals and businesses still recovering from the year-long health pandemic, said Finance Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Tengku Aziz. “We are conducting discussions at the relevant ministry and finance levels on how …
Read More »Possible purchase of COVID-19 vaccine by private sector ‘on our radar’: Malaysian official
[ad_1] KUALA TERENGGANU: The limited global supply of COVID-19 vaccines has made it necessary for the Malaysian government to monopolize purchases to ensure the success of its national immunization program, Vice Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation Ahmad Amzad Hashim said on Saturday (6 of March). ). He said that …
Read More »Government Leverages More Data to Reduce Aid
[ad_1] KUALA LUMPUR: The government is leveraging more data collected by various ministries to reduce its assistance to individuals and businesses still recovering from the year-long health pandemic, said Finance Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Tengku Aziz (pix) saying. “We are conducting discussions at the finance and relevant ministries level …
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