Health

[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Monday (January 4) marks the beginning of a new school year, at least for the children in Primary 1 and Kindergarten 1. With a new school environment and fresh faces, most students undoubtedly feel a certain level of excitement, even nervousness, and so will their parents, seeing now …

[ad_1] WASHINGTON: Nancy Pelosi was narrowly re-elected on Sunday (January 3) as president, giving her the reins of the slim majority of House Democrats, as President-elect Joe Biden sets a challenging path to produce legislation to address the pandemic, revive the economy, and address the priorities of other parties. The …

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: India will not allow the export of the Oxford University-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine for several months, said on Sunday the director of the Serum Institute of India, which has been hired to produce 1 billion doses of the vaccine for developing nations (Jan. 3). Given that wealthy nations …

[ad_1] WASHINGTON: Two senior US health officials on Sunday (January 3) disputed a claim by President Donald Trump that federal data on COVID-19 cases and deaths in the United States is exaggerated, and both expressed optimism. that the pace of vaccines is accelerating. “The deaths are real deaths,” Anthony Fauci, …

[ad_1] LONDON (REUTERS) – Britain reactivated emergency hospitals built at the start of the pandemic and closed primary schools in London on Friday (January 1) to counter the rapid spread of a much more infectious variant of the coronavirus. With more than 50,000 new cases of Covid-19 daily over the …

[ad_1] KLUANG: Malaysia is in talks with Singapore to standardize standard operating procedures (SOPs) on cross-border travel for compassionate reasons, says Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein. The Foreign Minister said that currently, Malaysians working in Singapore who want to return to the country out of compassion would have to call to …

[ad_1] SYDNEY: Australia’s most populous state, New South Wales (NSW), reported eight new COVID-19 cases on Sunday (Jan 3), while neighboring Victoria’s count increased by three, as they were rolled out new measures to combat the disease. The NSW outbreak began in mid-December in Sydney’s North Beaches area, where a …

[ad_1] MADRID: Blame COVID-19 travel restrictions or Brexit, but whatever the cause, some British citizens who tried to return home to Spain this weekend were unable to board flights. The airlines are rejecting documents that before Brexit had been valid proof of the status of the British as residents of …

[ad_1] KUALA LUMPUR – Heavy rains continued to hit parts of Malaysia on Sunday (January 3), prompting thousands of people to be evacuated in the southern state of Johor and parts of the East Coast Highway in Pahang temporarily closed to the traffic. Johor State Health and Environment Committee Chairman …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE – Former Reform Party (PR) chairman Andy Zhu, along with seven other former PR members, including former treasurer Noraini Yunus, formed a new political party. The Singapore United Party (SUP), which now has 11 members, registered as a society on December 24, according to a notice in the …