[ad_1] LONDON: The British government will review whether it needs to impose its more stringent COVID-19 restrictions on more of the country on Wednesday (December 23), as a highly infectious variant continues to spread but will not change Christmas rules, a minister said. Britain reported a record number of new …
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[ad_1] By Chen Lin, Aradhana Aravindan SINGAPORE (Reuters) – As Singapore prepares to roll out COVID-19 vaccines, its surprising success in controlling the virus raises questions about whether they should get the vaccines. FILE PHOTO: The first shipment of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine arrives in Singapore on December 21, …
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[ad_1] BEIJING: A candidate coronavirus vaccine developed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) was found to be safe and elicits immune responses in early and mid-stage trials, researchers said on Tuesday (December 22). A late-stage trial of the ZF2001 vaccine, which CAS is developing with a Chongqing Zhifei biologicals …
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[ad_1] It goes without saying that 2020 has not been the most huat year. For one woman, things got a bit worse thanks to a hapless Ninja Van deliveryman who broke her prized possession – a “lucky” pot. He had broken the pot while delivering a package to his home …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE (THE NEW DOCUMENT) – As the Covid-19 pandemic worsened in March, Ah Boys To Men star Maxi Lim postponed his wedding reception and wrote on Instagram that he was “the most socially responsible thing to do.” But when he and his wife, influencer Lizy Teo, who registered their …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE – 21 new coronavirus cases were confirmed at noon on Wednesday (December 23), all of which were imported. They were posted on stay-at-home notices upon arrival in Singapore, the Ministry of Health (MINSA) said. Among them, eight are Singaporean or permanent residents and nine are foreign domestic workers. …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Singapore reported 21 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday (December 23), the Ministry of Health (MINSA) said in its daily preliminary update. All new cases were imported and placed on a stay-at-home notice upon arrival in Singapore. Ad Ad Eight of them are Singaporean or permanent residents, and nine …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Consumer prices in Singapore declined in November as the authorities forecast a “slightly positive” turn in 2021. Core inflation fell to -0.1% year-on-year in November, compared with -0.2% in October, data from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the Ministry of Commerce showed on Wednesday (December 23). …
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[ad_1] The first shipment of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine arrived this week and Singapore hopes to have enough vaccines for 5.7 million people by the third quarter of 2021. – Reuters pic SINGAPORE, December 23 – As Singapore prepares to roll out the Covid-19 vaccines, its surprising success in controlling the …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE: A nurse in a nursing home was jailed for 16 weeks on Wednesday (December 23) for beating and kicking a resident in a wheelchair. Filipino Flores Alvin Jay Vargas, 36, pleaded guilty to one count of willfully wounding a 67-year-old man, who had been a resident of All …
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