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[ad_1] SINGAPORE – Singapore’s Covid-19 vaccination program will enter its next phase on February 22, when the island’s older people begin to take its hit, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Friday (February 12). This comes after a month-long pilot, where people aged 70 and over in Ang Mo …

[ad_1] BETHESDA: US President Joe Biden said on Thursday (February 11) that the coronavirus vaccination program he inherited from Donald Trump was in “much worse shape” than he expected, asking for patience, saying that the government has bought 200 million more doses. “We’re not going to have everything fixed for …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE: A stall owner who works at a sundries store in Chinatown Complex and his son who works at Changi Swensen’s Airport were among three Singaporean community COVID-19 cases reported on Thursday (Feb.11) . The owner of the stall is a 66-year-old permanent resident identified as Case 60138. He …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE: A food and beverage outlet in Singapore’s mall was ordered to suspend operations from Thursday (Feb.11) after two diners were hospitalized with typhoid fever, the Ministry of Health (MOH ) and the Singapore Food Agency (SFA). Authorities said they are investigating the cluster of two typhoid cases that …

[ad_1] Asia Malaysia’s COVID-19 Vaccine Supply Access Guarantee Committee says Malaysians will be given priority to receive vaccination doses. FILE PHOTO: Foreign workers line up to get tested for coronavirus (COVID-19) outside a clinic in Kajang, Malaysia, October 26, 2020. REUTERS / Lim Huey Teng February 11, 2021 12:21 PM …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Three community cases were among 12 new COVID-19 infections reported in Singapore at noon on Thursday (February 11), the Ministry of Health (MOH) said in its preliminary daily update. The remaining nine infections were imported and placed on admission notice upon arrival in Singapore. No new infections were …

[ad_1] The confrontation between China and the United States would be a “disaster” and the two should reestablish the means to avoid errors of judgment, Chinese President Xi Jinping told Joe Biden on Thursday morning, in his first call since the US president took office on January 20. . Cooperation …

[ad_1] WUHAN: A World Health Organization (WHO) team leaves China on Wednesday (February 10) after gaining new insights into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic that has now killed more than 2.3 millions of people around the world, but with the main questions still. unanswered. The visit was politically sensitive …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE – A 22-year-old construction worker from Bangladesh is the only case of migrant workers’ dormitories reported on Wednesday (February 10). There were also 14 imported cases confirmed by the Ministry of Health (MINSA), bringing Singapore’s total to 59,747. The construction worker’s previous tests of the listed routine tests …

[ad_1] SYDNEY – Australia is considering controversial plans to set up isolated rural quarantine camps for people entering from abroad as the country tries to close the final gap in its efforts to combat Covid-19. The proposal to move quarantine facilities away from hotels in dense urban centers was first …