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[ad_1] SINGAPORE – There will inevitably be more imported Covid-19 cases here, but experts say this won’t be a big concern. They noted that more travelers return during the festive period, especially as the outbreak in some countries is getting worse during the winter. The number of cases could increase …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE – When Covid-19 vaccines are rolled out starting next year for most Singapore residents, interior design firm Design 4 Space plans to take a trip to Japan to encourage its staff to get vaccinated. Although the vaccination program here is voluntary, the company’s CEO Richard Yea is encouraging …

[ad_1] MOSCOW: Russia said on Monday (December 28) that its death toll from COVID-19 was more than three times higher than it had previously reported, making it the country with the third highest death toll. For months, President Vladimir Putin has bragged about Russia’s low death rate from the virus, …

[ad_1] FRANKFURT / BERLIN: Germany’s COVID-19 vaccination campaign has been overshadowed by an overdose mishap in the north and problems with vaccine transport in the south, prompting 1,000 injections to be shipped. Some districts in Bavaria said on Monday (December 28) that they would not use the vaccines received over …

[ad_1] At the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak, when countries were faced with the rapid spread of Covid-19, China sent boxes upon boxes of masks and other protective equipment abroad. These items arrived in various countries with stickers of the Chinese flag, in a display of what has been called …

[ad_1] BANGKOK (REUTERS) – Thailand announced its first coronavirus death in nearly two months and tightened restrictions on entertainment companies in its capital on Monday (December 28), in a bid to contain an outbreak that has reached more than half of the country’s provinces. Authorities confirmed 144 new infections on …

[ad_1] BRUSSELS: The EU campaign to vaccinate Europeans against COVID-19 has gotten off to a mixed start in what will be a marathon effort to administer injections to enough of the bloc’s 450 million people to defeat the viral pandemic. In one mishap, eight workers at a nursing home in …

[ad_1] Mon, December 28, 2020 – 2:18 pm [HONG KONG] Alibaba Group Holding led a sell-off by Chinese tech giants sparked by fears that antitrust scrutiny would spread beyond Jack Ma’s internet empire and ensnare more of the country’s most powerful corporations. China’s e-commerce leader on Monday raised a proposed …

[ad_1] MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte told the United States on Saturday that he would go ahead with his plan to terminate the 1998 Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) unless he could provide vaccines to the coronavirus-ravaged country. Duterte ordered the termination of the VFA earlier this year, but suspended the …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE: The only community case of COVID-19 from Singapore reported on Monday (December 28) is a Singapore Airlines manager who recently traveled to the United States for work. It has been classified as a case of local transmission due to a “relatively long time interval” between its trip and …