Health

[ad_1] LONDON (REUTERS) – Britain will begin rolling out the Covid-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech on Tuesday (December 8), the first Western country to begin vaccinating its general population in what was hailed as a watershed milestone. in the defeat of the coronavirus. The mass inoculation will fuel …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE: After his colleague contracted COVID-19, a man was ordered to go home and not report for work, instead traveling through Singapore for eight consecutive days, claiming that he was very bored at home. For repeatedly violating his quarantine order, Soh Poh Tiong, 65, was jailed for 12 weeks …

[ad_1] Caregiver burnout is, sadly, a very real phenomenon. For one maid, the stress of taking care of her 92-year-old employer and 104-year-old husband was too much to handle. The Ministry of Manpower is investigating the matter after the 25-year-old Myanmar national suffered a nervous breakdown in early November while …

[ad_1] JAKARTA: Indonesia’s highest Muslim clerical body is expected to issue a halal certification for the COVID-19 experimental vaccine developed by China-based Sinovac Biotech, officials said on Monday (December 7). Certification would be an important step in immunization efforts in the world’s most populous Muslim country, if the vaccine is …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Nanyang Technological University (NTU) will offer free COVID-19 testing to residents of its classroom as part of efforts to keep campus safe, it said in an email to students on Monday (December 7). “To keep all hallway residents and the campus community safe, the University, in consultation with …

[ad_1] SEOUL: South Korea said on Monday (Dec. 7) it has signed agreements to provide coronavirus vaccines to 44 million people next year, as the country battles a wave of infections that authorities say could overwhelm its system. doctor. The government has agreed to buy 20 million doses each from …

[ad_1] LOS ANGELES: Most Californians faced heavy new restrictions on Monday (Dec. 7) aimed at slowing the spread of COVID-19, while the New York Governor threatened to ban meals at indoor restaurants in the city of New York, as the United States feared infections would continue to rise. Restaurants in …

[ad_1] OTTAWA: Canada will begin receiving its first doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine before the end of December, earlier than expected, with millions more by early 2021, authorities said Monday (December 7). The news could help Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s liberal minority government fend off attacks by opposition parties that …

[ad_1] GENEVA: The World Health Organization said on Monday (December 7) that persuading people of the merits of a COVID-19 vaccine would be far more effective than trying to make jabs mandatory. The WHO said it would be up to individual countries how they want to carry out their vaccination …

[ad_1] – Advertising – Action for AIDS, Singapore (AfA) presented a Red Ribbon Award to respected opposition physician and politician Paul Tambyah for his contributions to HIV-related causes on Saturday (December 5). The AfA Red Ribbon Awards are awarded to individuals who have made significant contributions over the years to …