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[ad_1] LONDON, January 4: Britain on Monday will become the first country to implement the low-cost, easy-to-transport COVID-19 vaccine from the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca on Monday, another step forward in the global response to the pandemic. Six hospitals in England will administer the first of 530,000 doses that …

[ad_1] TOKYO, January 4: Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said on Monday that the government would consider declaring a state of emergency for the Greater Tokyo metropolitan area as coronavirus cases escalate and strain the country’s medical system. Japan registered a record 4,520 new cases on December 31 in a …

[ad_1] A Chinese student who returned home last month after studying in the UK has been confirmed to have had the new strain of coronavirus first detected in the UK. The 18-year-old, who returned home to Guangzhou, the capital of southern China’s Guangdong Province, on December 4, is the second …

[ad_1] © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Pedestrians in face masks are reflected in an electrical panel displaying stock prices outside a brokerage in a Tokyo shopping district. By Wayne Cole SYDNEY (Reuters) – Asian stock markets paused on Monday as reports of a possible tightening of emergency rules due to coronavirus …

[ad_1] That’s it! The Samsung Galaxy S21 will launch next week as Samsung has confirmed its Galaxy Unpacked event to take place on January 14, 2021. The event is themed “Welcome to Everyday Epic” and the teaser image appears to show off their new camera shot for the new Galaxy …

[ad_1] Gerry Marsden, the leader of the 1960s group Gerry and the Pacemakers, has died at age 78, the singer’s friend Pete Price announced Sunday. Liverpool-born Marsden, who died after a brief illness, had a hit in the 1960s with his version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein song. You will …

[ad_1] SEOUL: When Ryu Han-na, a 20-year-old college student, underwent cosmetic surgery on her nose in mid-December, she had a simple reason: It might be the last chance to do it covertly before people start. to take off the masks. this year while vaccines are distributed. Ryu, who has been …

[ad_1] YOUR OPINION | “I cannot blame the S’porians for thinking that the M’sian government is easy meat.” HSR’s agreement with S’pore terminated, Malaysia to pay compensation COMMENT | The cost we pay for our klepto-economy BusinessFirst: This government has failed us again. Waste people’s hard-earned money. In Singapore, before …

[ad_1] JAKARTA (Bloomberg): Indonesia will begin distributing the vaccine developed by China’s Sinovac Biotech to all of its 34 provinces on Sunday (Jan.3), Kompas reported. The Health Ministry will carry out the distribution in parallel with testing the vaccines manufactured by the Chinese company, the newspaper said, citing the ministry’s …

[ad_1] HANOI (REUTERS) – Vietnam detected its first imported case of the new variant of the coronavirus that is spreading rapidly through Britain, the Health Ministry said on Saturday (January 2). The variant was detected in a 44-year-old woman returning to Vietnam from Britain, who was quarantined upon arrival and …