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[ad_1] SINGAPORE: The Ministry of Health (MINSA) said on Thursday (December 31) that it would begin “special test operations” to screen those who boarded the vessels on which two COVID-19 cases recently worked. Port pilots, marine surveyors and ship repair workers will also be tested for the coronavirus “in the …

[ad_1] The Premier League has announced that it has “no plans” to pause the season and “continues to rely on its Covid-19 protocols to allow matches to be played as scheduled.” Wednesday night’s match between Tottenham and Fulham postponed after a coronavirus outbreak at the West London club. The Cottagers …

[ad_1] The veteran coach is concerned for his own health as cases of the virus on the rise again West Brom coach Sam Allardyce has urged the Premier League to take a “break” after a recent spike in Covid-19 cases. The competition reported another 18 cases of the virus on …

[ad_1] Senior Nurse Sarah Lim of Singapore’s National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID) receives a Covid-19 vaccine, administered by Senior Nurse Kho Wei Lian (left), at the NCID Day Treatment Center in Singapore, when the city state He began his exercise vaccination with the first group of health workers on …

[ad_1] SHANGHAI (AFP) – China confirmed its first case of a new variant of the coronavirus that was recently detected in Britain, health officials said. The new strain, which experts say spreads potentially faster than the original variant, has prompted UK travel restrictions in more than 50 countries, including China, …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE – A Raffles Girls’ School student who was last in school on December 23 was one of five community cases announced on Thursday (December 31). The 14-year-old permanent resident was one of two relatives in case 58,810, a permanent resident working as a marine surveyor at Lloyd’s Register …

[ad_1] BRUSSELS: Starting January 1, 2021, British and EU citizens will face the reality of Brexit as the transition period ends and borders that were removed decades ago return. Although an agreement has been reached to allow duty-free trade through the English Channel, from that date, the British will be …

[ad_1] ZURICH: Britain on Wednesday (December 30) became the first country to approve the local COVID-19 vaccine from the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca in the UK, adding an easy-to-administer injection to the arsenal of a nation desperate for relief from the pandemic. Still, scientists – and regulators in Europe, …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE – Workers’ Party MP He Ting Ru, 37, has given birth to her third child, a baby. She announced the news on her Facebook page on New Years Eve Thursday night (December 31), writing, “What a splendid way to wrap up 2020 with the latest addition to our …

[ad_1] SYDNEY: The world began ushering in the New Year on Thursday (December 31), with pandemic controls silencing the celebrations of billions of people eager to bid farewell to coronavirus-plagued 2020. After a grueling year in which at least 1.7 million people died from COVID-19, new waves of infection triggered …