Health

[ad_1] SINGAPORE: More than 70 percent of Singaporeans are using the TraceTogether app or tokens, the minister in charge of the Smart Nation initiative, Vivian Balakrishnan, said on Wednesday (December 23). Authorities previously set a TraceTogether adoption rate of 70 percent as one of the requirements for Singapore to move …

[ad_1] LONDON: A potentially more infectious new variant of the coronavirus is believed to be behind the rising number of COVID-19 cases in southern parts of the UK. Fearing this version of the virus will spiral out of control, the government has introduced a stricter level of restrictions across much …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE: On Monday (December 21), 31 boxes of COVID-19 vaccines arrived in Singapore. The first shipment of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine arrived from Belgium and landed at Changi Airport on Monday night. Ad Ad The valuable vials were then headed to SATS Coolport’s refrigerated warehouse before being loaded onto a …

[ad_1] WILMINGTON: President-elect Joe Biden said on Tuesday (December 22) that the perpetrators of a massive cyber attack on the United States government, unofficially attributed to Russia, must face consequences and attacked President Donald Trump for his response to the threat. “We can’t let this go unanswered,” Biden told the …

[ad_1] Hang Seng Indexes Co. is considering far-reaching changes to Hong Kong’s benchmark stock index that would dilute the influence of its largest companies. The five proposals include maintaining “a certain number of components classified as Hong Kong companies,” according to a 16-page report. consultation paper released Tuesday. Hang Seng …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE: At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, several countries, such as the United Kingdom, followed a strategy of “natural herd immunity.” Under this strategy, transmission would be slowed, but not prevented, until enough people had been infected so that those who had not yet been infected were protected …

[ad_1] WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – United States President-elect Joe Biden received his first injected dose of the Covid-19 vaccine live on television on Monday (December 21) in an effort to increase confidence in his safety ahead of his wide distribution next year. Biden has said he would make fighting the coronavirus, …

[ad_1] South China morning post Coronavirus: China’s companies ‘ready to export 400 million doses of vaccines’ China’s drug makers have arrangements to supply nearly 400 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine to other countries, as deployments begin around the world and governments scramble to access the jabs. Three leading Chinese …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE – A man sentenced to life in prison and three strokes of a cane in 2004 for his role in the abduction of a seven-year-old girl the previous year committed suicide on July 8 this year in Changi Prison. Chua Ser Lien, 58, who had a history of …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE – Many things about the coronavirus were still unknown in the first half of the year, but Singapore knew that it had to act quickly to secure the Covid-19 vaccine doses for its people. This was despite the fact that some solutions were as novel as the pathogen …