[ad_1] Birthdays are supposed to be joyous occasions when family and friends get together to celebrate, but they were all days before Covid. Under phase 2 regulations, social gatherings must be limited to five people, including birthday celebrations, to keep everyone safe during the pandemic, and even celebrities are not …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE – Local broadcaster Mediacorp apologized after three of its artists, Jeffrey Xu, Shane Pow and Terence Cao, were caught in what appeared to be a violation of Covid-19 regulations. A Shin Min Daily News reader informed the Chinese-language publication on Wednesday (December 23) that Xu, who celebrated his …
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[ad_1] BANGKOK: After managing against all odds to keep the coronavirus under control for most of the year, Thailand was suddenly challenged by a spreading outbreak among migrant workers at the gates of the capital Bangkok. The surge in cases in Samut Sakhon province threatens to undo months of efforts …
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[ad_1] HONG KONG (BLOOMBERG) – The sudden reappearance of Covid-19 in places with the world’s best records for handling the pandemic is sending a discouraging message to health officials: Strategies to completely eliminate the virus don’t work for long. . term solution, and even the most successful places can never …
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[ad_1] KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia is in talks to buy 6.4 million doses of the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine from Russia and wants to increase its purchases of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, the Minister of Science said on Wednesday (December 23), Technology and Innovation Khairy Jamaluddin: As the country seeks to strengthen …
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[ad_1] MOSCOW: The encrypted messaging app Telegram will launch payment services in 2021, its Russian founder Pavel Durov said on Wednesday (December 23), as the growing company needed “at least a few hundred million dollars a year.” “Telegram will start generating revenue from next year,” Durov said in a statement. …
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[ad_1] SYDNEY: Sydney on Wednesday (Dec 23) eased closure restrictions for Christmas after Australia’s largest city reported a second day of new COVID-19 cases in single digits. Amid a record testing and tracing effort, only eight new cases were recorded in the past 24 hours, prompting authorities to announce that …
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[ad_1] 3:25 am ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has told ESPN that the Manchester United team can do their part to convince Paul Pogba to stick around by showing him that he can win trophies at Old Trafford. Pogba’s agent Mino Raiola has publicly said that the midfielder wants …
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[ad_1] TOKYO (AFP) – A Japanese man dubbed the “Twitter killer” withdrew an appeal from his guilty verdict and death sentence for the murder of nine people, a judicial official said on Wednesday (December 23). Takahiro Shiraishi, 30, filed the motion Monday to withdraw the appeal filed by his attorneys, …
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[ad_1] PARIS: Three policemen were killed and a fourth injured in central France on Wednesday (December 23) by a gunman who was confronted in response to a domestic violence call, the deadliest attack in years against French police outside of terrorism incidents. The suspect, a 48-year-old man known to authorities …
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