Health

[ad_1] By Sangmi Cha SEOUL (Reuters) – Nine out of 10 coronavirus patients reported experiencing side effects such as fatigue, psychological sequelae and loss of smell and taste after recovering from the disease, according to a preliminary study from South Korea. The investigation comes as the global death toll from …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE – The Covid-19 pandemic has underlined the importance of public communication, as well as the need for institutions such as the media to build trust in their audiences, panelists said during a discussion on World News Day on Monday. (September 28). Public communication is often overlooked as a …

[ad_1] WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) – The world officially recorded 1 million deaths from Covid-19 in one of the pandemic’s most sobering milestones, but the true count could be nearly double. Actual deaths from the worst outbreak in a century may be closer to 1.8 million, a number that could grow to …

[ad_1] BEIJING: A Chinese company is entering the global race to help defeat COVID-19, promising that its test machine will return results faster than a laboratory and more reliably than home detection kits. The Flash 20 “is currently the world’s fastest machine for PCR testing for the new coronavirus,” says …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE – The Orchis food court at Changi Airport Terminal 1, Ngee Ann City and the Alexandra Village Food Center are among the new places visited by Covid-19 patients when they were still infectious, said the Ministry of Health (MOH) on Tuesday (September 29). Between September 15 and 25, …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE – The Ministry of Health (MINSA) confirmed 27 new cases of COVID-19 as of Tuesday (September 29), bringing Singapore’s total case count to 57,742. The ministry also announced the closure of the cluster at SLR Revolution in the Excelsior shopping center, as there have been no cases linked …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE: A food court at Changi Airport and seven shopping centers are among the locations added on Tuesday (September 29) to the list of public places visited by community cases of COVID-19 during their infectious period. The Orchis food court at Changi Airport Terminal 1 was visited six times …

[ad_1] GENEVA: The World Health Organization (WHO) described the 1 million deaths from COVID-19 as a “dying milestone”, even as infections continue to rise. The number of deaths from the new coronavirus this year now doubles the number of people dying annually from malaria, and the death rate has risen …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE – The number of private hospital bills that MediShield Life will cover will be reduced from 35% to 25% from the first quarter of next year, if the MediShield Life Council proposal is implemented. This change may affect the private integrated (IP) plans offered by seven insurers, which …

[ad_1] BANGKOK: Thailand will host its first foreign vacationers when a flight from China arrives next week, marking the gradual restart of a vital tourism sector hit by coronavirus travel restrictions, a senior official said on Tuesday (September 29) . The first flight will have about 120 tourists from Guangzhou, …