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Afghanistan begins Covid-19 vaccine campaign as violence surges

Govt administers AstraZeneca doses donated by India amid fraught peace talks

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Penang will build foreign worker dormitories at worksites

This is to prevent spread of Covid-19 from those living at housing schemes to locals

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Covid-19: 2,468 infections, 14 deaths today

New recoveries number 4,055, while 196 patients in intensive care

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Japan mulls scrapping virus emergency in all but metropolitan areas

Tokyo, Saitama, Kanagawa and Chiba reportedly set to remain under enhanced restrictions

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S’wak road repairs in full swing to ensure smooth Covid-19 vaccine deliveries

Months of downpours, flooding have rendered rural routes impassable, posing problem for inoculation drive

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Ampang Jaya police station on hold after Covid-19 detected

11 personnel tested positive and placed under home quarantine, says chief

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S. Korea to withhold virus relief from public health rule-breakers

Country’s PM says no exceptions will be made ahead of fourth round of money relief

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Variants raise Covid-19 questions, concern

Three are particularly worrying

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22 SMK Meradong students down with Covid-19 in new S’wak cluster

534 others awaiting results after being tested today; school staffer suspected of being index case

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First vaccine dose slashes Covid-19 hospitalisations by at least 75%: UK studies

Observations made in England, Scotland of recipients of Pfizer-BioNTech, Oxford-AstraZeneca jabs

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Biden calls US Covid-19 toll ‘heartbreaking’

US president urges Americans to mourn lives lost, remain vigilant in face of pandemic

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Urging govt to let Parliament sit, Najib questions toothless emergency

Ex-PM adds administration must have political legitimacy, ‘be accepted wholly’ before deciding to impose such rule

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US virus deaths breach 500,000: Johns Hopkins tracker

Grim threshold comes about a month after country hardest hit by pandemic recorded 400,000 fatalities from Covid-19