Health

[ad_1] WILMINGTON, Delaware: President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday (Dec. 8) unveiled his plan to combat the coronavirus pandemic during his first 100 days in office, saying his administration would vaccinate 100 million Americans, push to reopen schools, and it would strengthen the mandates of masks. Biden, who formally introduced his …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE: A passenger aboard a Royal Caribbean ship tested positive for COVID-19 during a cruise to nowhere, causing the ship to backtrack ahead of schedule. The case was detected aboard the Quantum of the Seas ship, which began sailing again this month as part of a pilot scheme that …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE: COVID-19 has completely changed our lives. There is a general expectation that life will return to a normal appearance with a COVID-19 vaccine. Whether that is true remains to be seen, but vaccination will be an important step towards this goal. Ad Ad Now we are closer to …

[ad_1] Join Yuen-CThe times of the straitDecember 6, 2020 A week-long trawl to crack down on criminal activities in Geylang saw 89 people arrested for various crimes, police said in a statement on Sunday (December 6). Among those arrested were 62 men and 27 women, the youngest being 16 years …

[ad_1] BHUBANESWAR, India: Indian authorities said on Tuesday (December 8) that they found traces of lead and nickel particles in blood samples after hundreds of people were hospitalized due to an unknown illness in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh. Teams of doctors, including those from the leading Indian Institute …

[ad_1] BANGALORE – India has bought 1.6 billion doses of Covid-19 vaccines, more than any other country, according to a global analysis. Using its enormous manufacturing influence, the country bought 500 million doses of the candidate vaccine from the University of Oxford-AstraZeneca, one billion from the American company Novavax and …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Singapore reported 12 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday (December 8), the Ministry of Health (MINSA) said. All new cases were imported and given a stay-at-home notice upon arrival in Singapore. Ad Ad A 17-year-old Singaporean who returned from the UK and two Singaporean permanent residents who returned from …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE: It is not the cost of each batch; is the size, and could be larger, said vendors along Waterloo Street after authorities announced Tuesday (Dec. 8) plans to move vendors to designated locations along a popular pedestrian walkway on the next year. Starting January 4, 2021, vendors along …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE – Flower vendors and fortune tellers with makeshift stalls near two popular Waterloo Street temples will need a license starting next year to operate on designated lots as authorities move to deal with overcrowding and obstruction . Starting on January 4 of next year, the 41 street vendors …

[ad_1] WELLINGTON: A report on the Christchurch mosque massacre last year said that New Zealand’s security agencies were “almost exclusively” focused on the threat of Islamist terrorism, and that the police had not enforced adequate controls on the firearms licenses. The nearly 800-page Royal Commission of Inquiry report released on …