Health

[ad_1] WASHINGTON: The daily death toll from COVID-19 in the US has surpassed 3,000 for the first time, prompting calls for Americans to cut back on Christmas plans even with vaccines about to gain regulatory approval. Deaths from COVID-19 reached 3,253 on Wednesday, bringing the United States’ total since the …

[ad_1] LAUSANNE: For the second time in its history, the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) will not be held in the small town of Davos in Switzerland. The first time it was uprooted from its traditional headquarters was in New York in 2002, to show solidarity with …

[ad_1] South China morning post Two-thirds of Hong Kong’s private universities failed to meet 2020 enrollment targets, often poorly More than two-thirds of Hong Kong’s private tertiary institutions failed to meet their enrollment targets this year amid a continuing decline in the number of students dropping out of high school, …

[ad_1] BIRMINGHAM, UK: Vaccines against COVID-19 are being launched in England and will soon follow elsewhere. This is great news, but just the beginning of a long program that could run through mid-2021 and beyond. Meanwhile, the number of people protected from symptomatic COVID will steadily increase as more people …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE – At age 60, most people are busy planning for retirement. But former engineer Clement Ng Cheng Chuan decided to make a career change at that age and become a nurse. Having been laid off after spending more than 30 years in the oil and gas industry, Mr. …

[ad_1] HONG KONG (XINHUA) – Hong Kong reported 112 additional confirmed cases of Covid-19 on Thursday (December 10), the third day in a row that the number exceeded 100. According to the Hong Kong Center for Health Protection, 102 cases were local infections, 34 of unknown origin, and the other …

[ad_1] South China morning post Two-thirds of Hong Kong’s private universities failed to meet 2020 enrollment targets, often poorly More than two-thirds of Hong Kong’s private tertiary institutions failed to meet their enrollment targets this year amid a continuing decline in the number of students dropping out of high school, …

[ad_1] TOKYO: Japan will purchase 10,500 freezers to store new coronavirus vaccines and is considering purchasing dry ice in bulk as it prepares to protect its population from the virus, the Health Ministry said on Thursday (December 10). Japan has agreements to buy a total of 290 million doses of …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE – A woman who was no longer working as a health care assistant at Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) continued to receive a monthly salary for more than a year, totaling more than $ 32,000, because the hospital systems were not updated . Nurul Atiqah Kamsari knew that …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE – Two Singaporean teenagers were among six new coronavirus cases announced by the Ministry of Health (MOH) on Thursday (December 10). The Singaporean girls, aged 18 and 19, returned from the UK and were asymptomatic. The six new cases were imported and placed on stay-at-home notices upon arrival …