[ad_1] Thu, May 14, 2020 – 9:05 a.m. The following companies saw new developments that may affect their share trading on Thursday: DBS: The DBS POSB has seen a nearly four-fold jump in the number of account openings for migrant workers in April, as the Covid-19 pandemic adds to the …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Human Resources Minister Josephine Teo urged the public not to be “too alarmed”, even though the number of COVID-19 cases in Singapore remains high due to “extensive testing” among migrant workers. Ms. Teo made the appeal in a Facebook post on Thursday (May 14), in which she also …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Other laboratories are not using the same COVID-19 test kit and combination of analytical instruments as a laboratory that had 33 cases of “false positives,” said the Ministry of Health (MOH). Thirty-three previously confirmed cases of COVID-19, including a radiographer working at the Singapore Expo Community Care Center, …
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[ad_1] TOKYO: Japan is expected to lift the state of emergency for 39 of its 47 prefectures on Thursday (May 14), local media reported, while the capital Tokyo will maintain the restrictions until it sees compelling containment of the coronavirus. The world’s third largest economy declared a state of emergency …
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[ad_1] The search continues for two people linked to a disturbance case in an apartment block in Chinatown on Sunday, after police arrested nine more suspects, eight men and one woman, on Tuesday. The nine suspects, aged 18 to 28, were caught after a three-day police chase by agents of …
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[ad_1] WASHINGTON: A rapid coronavirus test promoted by President Donald Trump and used to evaluate White House officials produces false negatives in almost half of all cases, according to a new study by NYU Langone Health researchers. The Abbott Laboratories test, which shows positive results in 5 minutes and negative …
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[ad_1] PARIS: France dismissed Chinese warnings on Wednesday (May 13) about arms sales to self-governing Taiwan, saying it was implementing existing agreements and that Beijing should focus on fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. China’s Foreign Ministry warned Paris of a contract for Taiwan, which plans to buy arms from Paris as …
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[ad_1] PARIS: France on Wednesday (May 13) reported a drop in COVID-19 deaths over the past 24 hours compared with previous days, as its overall toll passed the 27,000 mark. The new deaths brought the total toll in hospitals and nursing homes from the pandemic in France to 27,074, the …
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[ad_1] An industry task force is examining how Covid-19 infections in the construction industry can be prevented when work gradually resumes after the circuit breaker ends, The Straits Times has learned. With eight or ten members from the Singapore Contractors Association Limited (Scal), it is working with authorities to design …
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[ad_1] Despite the fact that the number of Covid-19 infections in foreign workers’ dormitories continues to rise, the situation is better than originally expected, infectious disease expert Alex Cook said. “When we modeled the number of cases in foreign worker dorms in the initial period, they had all the classic …
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