Health

[ad_1] SINGAPORE – The Covid-19 vaccination campaign began in the private healthcare sector on Saturday (January 9), with 50 employees of the Parkway Pantai group receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech injection. The injections were administered in two places. Thirty doctors and nurses received the injection at Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital, while another …

[ad_1] TEHRAN: Foreign companies will not be able to test COVID-19 vaccines on the Iranian people, President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday (January 9), a day after Iran’s Supreme Leader banned imports of vaccines from the United States and Britain. “The foreign companies wanted to give us vaccines to be …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE – 29 new coronavirus cases have been confirmed as of noon on Saturday (January 9), bringing Singapore’s total to 58,865. All of them were imported cases that had been placed on a stay-at-home notice upon arrival in Singapore, the Ministry of Health (MINSA) said. There were no community …

[ad_1] NEW YORK: A print shop in Maryland spotted the photo on Twitter Wednesday night (January 6): An employee wandering the halls of the United States Capitol with a company insignia around his neck. He was fired the next day. Others face similar repercussions at work for their involvement in …

[ad_1] BEIJING: Two Chinese cities south of Beijing further tightened COVID-19 restrictions on Saturday (Jan 9) as authorities rush to stamp out the resurgence of infections. Mainland China reported 33 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, up from 53 reported a day earlier. The National Health Commission said in a statement …

[ad_1] BIRMINGHAM, England – Even when faced with unprecedented difficulties and uncertainty caused by the continuing impact of the coronavirus pandemic, the FA Cup still manages to lift football morale. On a night when Aston Villa’s youngsters were expected to be overwhelmed by Liverpool, the boys gave Premier League champions …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE: A 20-year-old Singaporean working at Crowne Plaza Changi Airport is on Friday (January 8) the second reported local case of COVID-19 that has tested a preliminary positive for the new strain B117. He is also the third person working at the hotel’s Azur restaurant to test positive for …

[ad_1] LONDON: London declared a major incident on Friday (January 8) because its hospitals were at risk of being overwhelmed by a highly communicable variant of the coronavirus that is running ‘out of control’ across the UK. Britain has the fifth-worst official death toll from COVID-19 at more than 78,000, …

[ad_1] KUALA LUMPUR- More than 48,000 people in six Malaysian states took refuge in 400 aid centers on Friday (January 8) to escape mounting floods as monsoon rain continued to hit parts of the country. The number of evacuees has more than doubled from the 20,575 people reported Wednesday morning. …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Singapore’s unemployment rate in November fell for the first time in 2020, a sign that the worst could have happened for the labor market amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The overall unemployment rate in November was 3.3 percent, falling from 3.6 percent in October. Ad Ad The resident unemployment …