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[ad_1] SINGAPORE – Family violence has increased since the circuit breaker tripped on April 7, according to the latest police figures, and this has led authorities to take a more proactive approach to help high-risk victims. From April 7 to May 6, 476 police reports were filed for crimes commonly …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE: A woman accused of abandoning her baby in a garbage dump in Bedok North in January was detained for three months, and the judge urged the prosecution to speed up investigations. The 26-year-old woman, who cannot be named to protect the child’s identity, has been referred since February …

[ad_1] TOKYO: With the world’s oldest population and one of the planet’s most populous megacities as its capital, Japan should have provided a fertile breeding ground for the deadly COVID-19. Images of crowded employees of Tokyo suburban trains fueled warnings that the capital of Japan could become the “next New …

[ad_1] COPENHAGEN: Public health official Anthony Fauci warned on Tuesday (May 12) of the dangers to children if American schools are reopened and California’s state university system, the largest in the United States, canceled classes. for the fall semester. While EE. USA Discussing when to bring children back to classrooms, …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Human Resources Minister Josephine Teo urged the public not to be “too alarmed”, even though the number of COVID-19 cases in Singapore remains high due to “extensive testing” among migrant workers. Ms. Teo made the appeal in a Facebook post on Thursday (May 14), in which she also …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Other laboratories are not using the same COVID-19 test kit and combination of analytical instruments as a laboratory that had 33 cases of “false positives,” said the Ministry of Health (MOH). Thirty-three previously confirmed cases of COVID-19, including a radiographer working at the Singapore Expo Community Care Center, …

[ad_1] WASHINGTON: A rapid coronavirus test promoted by President Donald Trump and used to evaluate White House officials produces false negatives in almost half of all cases, according to a new study by NYU Langone Health researchers. The Abbott Laboratories test, which shows positive results in 5 minutes and negative …

[ad_1] PARIS: France on Wednesday (May 13) reported a drop in COVID-19 deaths over the past 24 hours compared with previous days, as its overall toll passed the 27,000 mark. The new deaths brought the total toll in hospitals and nursing homes from the pandemic in France to 27,074, the …

[ad_1] An industry task force is examining how Covid-19 infections in the construction industry can be prevented when work gradually resumes after the circuit breaker ends, The Straits Times has learned. With eight or ten members from the Singapore Contractors Association Limited (Scal), it is working with authorities to design …

[ad_1] Despite the fact that the number of Covid-19 infections in foreign workers’ dormitories continues to rise, the situation is better than originally expected, infectious disease expert Alex Cook said. “When we modeled the number of cases in foreign worker dorms in the initial period, they had all the classic …