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[ad_1] SINGAPORE – Catering company Spize and its related company Spize Events were fined $ 32,000 in total on Thursday (December 3) for a mass food poisoning incident that sickened more than 60 people and killed an auxiliary police officer. The Attorney General’s Office (AGC) and the Singapore Food Agency …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE – Nine new coronavirus cases were confirmed as of noon on Thursday (December 3), bringing Singapore’s total to 58,239. Eight were imported cases that had been placed on stay-at-home notices upon arrival in Singapore, and one case from a worker’s bedroom, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said. No …

[ad_1] The Singapore Food Agency (SFA) has conducted inspections at the Elahe family restaurant at 103 Yishun Ring Road after receiving comments that its employees were not wearing their masks correctly. A Stomper was ordering food at the stall on November 8 when he noticed that several employees had their …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Spize food establishment and a related company were fined S $ 32,000 on Thursday (December 3) for a mass food poisoning incident in 2018. Sixty-three people became ill after eating food provided by Spize for a company event, and 45 of them were hospitalized. An auxiliary police officer …

[ad_1] WUHAN: Secrecy and cronyism at China’s main disease control agency led to a widespread shortage of tests and failures that hampered early response to the coronavirus outbreak, according to an Associated Press investigation. China’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) granted test kit designs and distribution rights exclusively …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Singapore said on Thursday (December 3) that it was disappointed with the United Nations decision to remove cannabis from the most strictly controlled category of narcotics. During the annual UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND), member states voted 27 to 25 with one abstention in favor of Recommendation …

[ad_1] VIENNA: Member states of the United Nations drug agency voted on Wednesday (December 2) by a narrow margin to remove cannabis from the most strictly controlled category of narcotics, following the recommendation of the World Health Organization ( WHO) to facilitate research on its medical use. The annual Commission …

[ad_1] WASHINGTON: The United States expects to have immunized 100 million people against COVID-19 by the end of February, a senior official said on Wednesday (Dec. 2), representing about 40 percent of the country’s adult population. The momentum should begin in a few weeks, when the vaccines developed by Pfizer-BioNTech …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE – There were no new cases of coronavirus in the community, but there were two more imported, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said in a press release on Wednesday night (December 2). This brings Singapore’s total to 58,230. The first case was a 52-year-old permanent resident who returned …

[ad_1] BRUSSELS: The European Union criticized Britain’s swift approval of the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech on Wednesday (December 2), saying its own procedure was more comprehensive, after Britain became the first country in backing a COVID-19 injection. The decision to grant emergency authorization to the Pfizer / BioNTech …