Covid-19

Today is the last leg of the partly muted campaign

17-year-old infects 21 other individuals including classmates, hostel warden, warden’s family

CovidNow records 68 deaths, 12 brought-in-dead cases

By eliminating distinctions, its govt aims to accelerate vaccinations

Programme will help produce shots within 6 to 9 months of identification of new pathogens

Many rural folk yet to receive Covid-19 vaccine booster jabs

Applies for individuals aged 18 and above after receiving first two shots

Move comes after over 100 Cathay Pacific cargo aviators sent into 21-day quarantine after 3 tested positive for virus

Chinese capital braces for challenge to zero-Covid strategy by requiring negative tests from visitors, cutting domestic flights from higher risk areas

Certain patients do not believe in hospital treatment, says welfare exco Phee Boon Poh

It entails national testing strategy and heightened alert system, among others, says minister

11,557 police and military personnel, as well as their spouses, registered for the early vote

Newly detected cluster numbers also on worryingly upward trend