Health

[ad_1] Three employees of the Mandarin Orchard Singapore hotel are likely to have been previously infected with the coronavirus, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said yesterday. Covid-19 tests were conducted on hotel staff as a precautionary measure, as 13 travelers who stayed there were suspected of being infected. Epidemiological investigations …

[ad_1] WASHINGTON: US authorities are “very carefully” scrutinizing the variant of the virus spreading in the UK, senior health officials said on Sunday (December 20), while noting that the UK travel ban would not it was currently on the cards. The news came as a US panel of experts recommended …

[ad_1] WASHINGTON: Top Capitol negotiators sealed a deal Sunday (December 20) on a nearly $ 1 trillion COVID-19 financial aid package, finally delivering aid to long-overdue businesses and individuals and providing money to deliver vaccines to a nation eager for them. The deal, announced by Senate leaders, would establish temporary …

[ad_1] LONDON: More countries have banned travel from the UK and the World Health Organization (WHO) called for stronger containment measures, as the British government warned that a highly infectious new strain of the virus was “out of control”. While the WHO urged its European members to strengthen measures against …

[ad_1] SYDNEY: Dozens of domestic flights due to depart from Sydney were canceled on Monday (December 21) and authorities issued more city-wide health alerts as Australia struggled to contain a new COVID-19 outbreak in its largest city four days before Christmas. More than 50 places, including cafes, gyms, casinos and …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE – All 19 new coronavirus cases confirmed on Sunday (December 20) were imported. There were no new community cases and none of the workers’ bedrooms. Sunday’s cases bring Singapore’s total to 58,422. All new cases were among those already listed on stay-at-home advisories or isolated upon arrival in …

[ad_1] ROME: Millions of Italians braced for Christmas and the New Year under harsh new coronavirus restrictions announced on Saturday (December 19) as Europe battled a winter surge in infections and Switzerland became the latest country to approve a vaccine against the virus. Europe has become the first region in …

[ad_1] RAMAT GAN, ISRAEL (AFP) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received an injection of Covid-19 vaccine on Saturday (December 19), kicking off a nationwide deployment in the coming days. Netanyahu, 71, and Israel’s health minister were injected with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine live on television at the Sheba Medical Center …

[ad_1] SYDNEY (AFP) – Dancing, singing and singing were banned in Sydney in a new round of restrictions introduced on Sunday (December 20) as Australian authorities rushed to control a growing coronavirus outbreak in the city. When hundreds of thousands of people on Sydney’s North Beaches woke up to the …

[ad_1] TEL AVIV: Israel began its COVID-19 inoculation campaign on Sunday (December 20), aiming to vaccinate some 60,000 people a day in an attempt to eradicate the disease that is once again increasing among its population. The country will immunize healthcare workers first, followed by the elderly, high-risk Israelis and …