Health

[ad_1] NOW ROUNDING | These are the key headlines you may have missed, shortly. 1. Many Malaysians are on the move during the Christmas season even though the Covid-19 situation in the country has reached record levels in recent weeks. 2. Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Johor and Sabah all registered a …

[ad_1] YOUR OPINION | ‘Khairy’s pathetic lament that Singapore has’ deep pockets ‘is a national affront …’ Why M’sia is months behind S’pore in receiving the Covid-19 vaccine Aegis: This makes no sense. Singapore and other countries get the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine early because they have the urgency and the …

[ad_1] PARIS: Hungary and Slovakia got ahead of their neighboring EU countries when they began vaccinating people against COVID-19 on Saturday (December 26), a day before launches in several other countries, including France and Spain, as the pandemic spreads across the continent. In Germany, a small number of people in …

[ad_1] KUALA LUMPURA total of 1,196 positive Covid-19 cases with a new group and one death were reported in the country today, said Tan Sri Director General of Health Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah. He said this brings the cumulative number of positive Covid-19 cases to 105,096. In a statement today, …

[ad_1] Walter KOTA KINABALU: When the United Arab Emirates (UAE) began offering free testing of the Covid-19 vaccine, a 35-year-old specialty chef from Sabahan took the opportunity to be among those who volunteered. Walter Dee Joseph, a native of Kampung Paung Membakut, has been working in Abu Dhabi, the capital …

[ad_1] BERLIN: It was during breakfast on the cold morning of January 24 that Ozlem Tureci and her husband Ugur Sahin decided, “we have to fire the starting shot on this.” Sahin “had concluded from a post describing coronavirus cases in Wuhan … that there was a high probability that …

[ad_1] PETALING JAYA: MCA President Datuk Seri, Dr. Wee Ka Siong, wonders why a shopping mall in Johor advises the public not to use public transportation. In a Facebook post on Sunday (December 27), Ayer deputy Hitam highlighted the warning from Plaza Angsana management. He said that public transportation was …

[ad_1] PARIS: Europe launches an unprecedented scale cross-border vaccination program on Sunday (December 27) as part of efforts to end a COVID-19 pandemic that has crippled economies and claimed more than 1.7 million of lives around the world. The region of 450 million people has secured contracts with a variety …

[ad_1] President Hassan Rouhani says the vaccine could be more expensive and time consuming, but “it will certainly happen.” (AP Image) TEHRAN: President Hassan Rouhani said Saturday that Washington required Iranian transactions for novel coronavirus vaccines to go through US banks and expressed fear that the money could be seized. …

[ad_1] People take photos in an empty Merlion Park amid the Covid-19 pandemic, in Singapore’s central business district on December 14, 2020. – Reuters pic SINGAPORE, December 27 – Singapore’s Ministry of Health (MINSA) confirmed that one of the 10 cases of Covid-19 imported into the republic announced yesterday is …