Foreign workers inside Avery Lodge dormitory along 2D Jalan Papan SINGAPORE: The number of COVID-19 cases in Singapore topped 30,000 on Friday (May 22), with 614 new cases reported as of noon. This brings the total number of cases in the country to 30,426. The vast majority of the […]
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SHANGHAI: China will severely punish the illegal hunting and trading of wild animals, it said in its government work report issued on Friday (May 22), as it tries to implement a ban imposed in January as a result of the coronavirus outbreak. The pandemic has been blamed on a seafood […]
The former site of Bedok North Secondary School. SINGAPORE: The former Hong Kah Secondary School and Bedok North Secondary School sites are among “a number” of Ministry of Education (MOE) sites that will be used as temporary facilities to house migrant workers “who are well”, said the ministry on […]
ROME: Italy’s death toll from the novel coronavirus in March and April could be nearly 19,000 higher than the official figure of 32,000, the national social security agency said on Thursday (May 21). The Istituto Nazionale della Previdenza Sociale (INPS), the largest social security and welfare institute in Italy, said […]
WASHINGTON, DC: US doctors and others in the scientific community are calling for the release of data that convinced health regulators to authorise emergency use of Gilead Sciences Inc’s antiviral drug remdesivir to treat COVID-19, so they can direct limited supplies on the right patients. Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc Chief Executive […]
REUTERS: AstraZeneca Plc said on Thursday (May 21) it had received the first agreements to supply at least 400 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine it is developing with the University of Oxford. The British drugmaker said it has a total capacity sourced for one billion doses through 2020 and […]
I spent a recent evening following a handful of South African policemen as they patrolled the dark, narrow streets of Alexandra township on the edge of Johannesburg. It was an unsettling experience. Every minute or so, the police would stop their van, jump out and – as people around them […]
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) warned Wednesday that the coronavirus pandemic is a long way from being over amid the largest daily rise in global cases. The WHO said 106,000 new cases had been reported to them in the last 24 hours. Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has […]
Time is running out to finalise a track and trace strategy that would avoid a potential second surge in coronavirus cases, NHS leaders have said. The NHS Confederation warned of “severe” consequences to staff and patients if the right system was not established rapidly. It said lockdown measures should not […]
Germany has agreed a proposal to ban the use of temporary workers at slaughterhouses following a spate of coronavirus infections. Hundreds of people working at abattoirs across Germany and France have tested positive for Covid-19 in recent weeks. Many workers have arrived from Romania on flights chartered by farmers. Health […]