Health

[ad_1] SINGAPORE – There were 166 suicide deaths from January to September this year, up from 304 during the same period last year, State Minister for Home Affairs Desmond Tan told Parliament on Wednesday (November 4). He gave these preliminary figures in response to Mr. Murali Pillai (Bukit Batok), who …

[ad_1] SYDNEY (REUTERS) – The Australian government has agreed to buy two more Covid-19 vaccines under development, bolstering the country’s potential arsenal against the pandemic to 135 million doses as it aims to complete a mass inoculation program in a few months. Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Thursday that the …

[ad_1] LONDON (Reuters) – Londoners ignored the resurgence of the COVID-19 pandemic and flocked to pubs and restaurants on Wednesday night, hours before the introduction of a new month-long shutdown in England. While the UK death toll from the coronavirus rose by 492 on Wednesday, the most since mid-May, London’s …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE – The OCBC Center at Raffles Place and a restaurant in Tampines were visited by coronavirus patients while they were infectious, the Health Ministry said on Thursday (November 5). The restaurant, Al-Hussain Restaurant at 822 Tampines Street 81, was visited between 11.30 p.m. on October 28 and 1.45 …

[ad_1] WASHINGTON: Democrat Joe Biden came closest to victory over President Donald Trump in the US presidential race on Thursday (November 5) when election officials counted the votes in the handful of states that will determine the outcome. The Republican president, who during the long and spiteful campaign attacked the …

[ad_1] BEIJING: More than 6,000 people in Lanzhou, the capital of northwest China’s Gansu province, tested positive for a bacterial disease called brucellosis, the local government said, in an outbreak caused by a leak at a vaccine plant during a year. make. The government has tested 55,725 people in the …

[ad_1] WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The United States set a one-day record for new coronavirus cases on Wednesday (Nov. 4) with at least 102,591 new infections and as hospitals in several states reported a rising tide of patients, according to a Reuters tally. . Nine states reported record increases in cases …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE: There will be no fireworks display in Marina Bay on New Year’s Eve to “mitigate public health risks” amid the COVID-19 pandemic, organizers of the countdown event said Thursday (Nov.5 ). Instead, fireworks will be set off at various locations in the heart of the island, organizers of …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE – Seven new coronavirus cases were confirmed as of noon on Thursday (Nov. 5), bringing Singapore’s total to 58,043. They included six imported cases that had been placed on stay-at-home notices upon arrival in Singapore, the Ministry of Health (MINSA) said. There was also one case in the …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE – This year there will be no fireworks at the New Year’s Eve countdown celebration in Marina Bay to minimize crowds in the area amid the pandemic. Instead, fireworks will go off at different locations in the heart of Singapore, as in previous years, the Urban Redevelopment Authority …