Health

[ad_1] SINGAPORE: When Gabriel Michael Wong, 17, was summoned to the principal’s office earlier this year, he thought he was in trouble. The College East student from the Institute of Technical Education (ITE) did not expect to be invited to join the REACH oversight panel, which helps shape the direction …

[ad_1] JAKARTA: Dr. Sardjono Utomo, a senior Indonesian physician, was admitted to his local hospital in East Java on Tuesday (December 1) afternoon. In just over 24 hours, as his fellow doctors called hospital after hospital looking for a respirator in Surabaya, Indonesia’s second-largest city and within a few hours’ …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE: A driver who sped up in a right-turning taxi in a collision that killed a National University of Singapore (NUS) student and injured three others, was fined S $ 5,000 and banned from driving for two years. Ng Li Ning, 24, was sentenced in district court last Friday …

[ad_1] SEOUL: South Koreans were urged to cancel the Christmas and New Years holidays on Friday (December 4) as daily cases of coronavirus hit a nine-month high and the government will impose stricter social distancing rules in Seoul to stop a third wave of infections. Health authorities reported 629 new …

[ad_1] HONOLULU: A couple was arrested at a Hawaii airport after traveling from the US mainland despite knowing they were infected with COVID-19, authorities said. Wesley Moribe, 41, and Courtney Peterson, 46, boarded a United Airlines flight to Lihue with a four-year-old boy after testing positive for coronavirus while returning …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Singapore will contribute $ 5 million (S $ 6.67 million) to help bring COVID-19 vaccines to people in low- and lower-middle-income countries, the Foreign Ministry (MFA) and the Ministry said. of Health (MOH). in a joint statement on Friday (December 4). The contribution will go to the COVID-19 …

[ad_1] UNITED NATIONS: The Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, condemned on Thursday (December 3) the countries, without naming names, that rejected the facts about the coronavirus pandemic and ignored the guidelines of the World Health Organization (WHO). Guterres addressed a special session of the 193-member UN General …

[ad_1] LONDON: The UK has become the first country to approve the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine for widespread use. The government has ordered 40 million doses and the first batch of 800,000 doses is expected to ship from Belgium, where the vaccine is manufactured, in the next few days. Ad …

[ad_1] PARIS: The world passed the grim milestone of 1.5 million global coronavirus deaths on Thursday (December 3), as several nations planned to deliver long-awaited vaccines early next year to break the cycle of lockdowns and restrictions. But even as the latest positive news about a vaccine was announced, and …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE – Despite the coronavirus pandemic and the disruption in trade and capital flows and the economic recession it caused this year, Singapore has been ranked as the second most connected country in the world. It ranked first for the size of its international flows of goods, capital, information …