Health

[ad_1] LONDON: The UK could return to pre-closure normality by next summer if a vaccine is successful and rolled out in early 2021, Health Minister Matt Hancock said on Monday (September 21). The most vulnerable could also be vaccinated later this year, he added. Ad Ad READ: Britain is at …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE – I am not a person who likes to have things pricked, be it needles, an endoscope or any dental equipment. So when I was asked to do a swab test, not just once but four times, I was prepared for the worst. The swab test is a …

[ad_1] LONDON (REUTERS) – Britain will face an exponentially rising death rate from Covid-19 in a few weeks unless urgent action is taken to halt a second wave of the rapidly spreading outbreak, the country’s senior doctors said on Monday. (September 21st). Britain already has the highest official Covid-19 death …

[ad_1] WASHINGTON: The death toll from the spread of the coronavirus in the United States was approaching more than 200,000 lives on Monday (September 21), more than double the number of deaths in India, the country that reports the second highest number of cases in the world. The United States, …

[ad_1] BEIJING: China stepped up its rhetoric on Taiwan on Monday (September 21), describing any support for its independence as “doomed to fail”, and threatened to retaliate against US diplomatic visits to the island. Taiwan has been ruled separately from China since the end of a civil war in 1949, …

[ad_1] LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was on Monday (September 21) mulling over a second national lockdown, as an accelerating outbreak of coronavirus threatened to destroy any buds of economic recovery and send millions back into isolation. The UK already has the highest official death toll from COVID-19 in …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE – The Ministry of Health (MINSA) confirmed 31 new cases as of Monday (September 21) afternoon, bringing the country’s total to 57,607. “According to our investigations so far, there are no cases in the community,” MINSA said. Of the new cases, nine are imported and have been included …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE: To overtake another driver, a man accelerated to twice the speed limit in the heart of the Central Business District. He ended up crashing into a crowd of pedestrians, trapping two people and running over the leg of a third victim. On two counts of serious injury by …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE: On Monday (September 21) the conviction of a maid who was convicted in April on a reduced murder charge for killing her employer was overturned after opting for the lessened liability defense. As his new instructions would qualify his guilty plea, the conviction was overturned for the court …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a wireless smart suit for athletes that works with electromagnetic signals from a smartphone. The battery-free suit is lightweight and can be worn outdoors, allowing athletic performance to be tracked with real-time physiological data from multiple sensors. Ad …