SHENZHEN, CHINA, Dec 19, 2022 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Gelonghui released a Press Release on “China Medical System Holdings Limited’s innovative product Methylthioninium Chloride Enteric-coated Sustained-release Tablets (‘the Product’) has obtained positive results for its Phase III clinical trial in China.” This is another breakthrough for the Product after China Medical System Holdings […]
Afghan men walk past the blue dome of a mosque in the outskirts of Kabul on Aug 18, 2022. (WAKIL KOHSAR / AFP) KABUL – A blast tore though a religious school during prayer time in the northern Afghan province of Samangan on Wednesday, killing 15 people, a provincial spokesperson said. At least 20 people […]
A health worker sprays sanitizer outside a house as a precautionary measure against the bird flu in Sola area, on the outskirts of Ahmedabad on March 5, 2021. (SAM PANTHAKY / AFP) NEW DELHI – Bird flu and African swine flu outbreaks have been reported in India's southern state of Kerala, officials said Friday. While […]
A woman wearing a face mask passes by posters about precautions against the COVID-19 illness on a street in Seoul, South Korea, March 10, 2020. (AHN YOUNG-JOON / AP) SEOUL / MANILA / SINGAPORE – South Korea recorded 51,874 new COVID-19 cases as of midnight Thursday compared to 24 hours ago, bringing the total number of […]
This handout photo taken and received from Manolos Aviation on September 11, 2022, shows injured villagers arriving at a hospital in Lae after being evacuated by helicopter from Wauko Village following a 7.6-magnitude quake which struck off Papua New Guinea's coast. (EREBIRI ZURENUOC / MANOLOS AVIATION / AFP) SYDNEY – Seven people have been confirmed […]
People wearing face masks shop at a mall in Yokohama, near Tokyo, June 23, 2020. (KOJI SASAHARA / FILE / AP) TOKYO / SEOUL / MANILA – Japan's government is planning to waive tourist visa requirements from some countries as part of a further easing of border controls enacted to stop the spread of COVID-19, Fuji […]
This image provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases shows a colorized transmission electron micrograph of monkeypox particles (red) found within an infected cell (blue), cultured in the laboratory that was captured and color-enhanced at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility in Fort Detrick, Maryland. (NIAID VIA AP) CANBERRA – The Australian government […]
Passengers wait for transportation outside the arrival hall of Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi on March 15, 2022, as Vietnam announced the return of a visa exemption policy for 13 countries in an effort to kickstart its tourism sector. (NHAC NGUYEN / AFP) HANOI / SUVA / YANGON / SINGAPORE / SEOUL / BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN […]
International travelers wearing personal protective equipment arrive at Melbourne's Tullamarine Airport on Nov 29, 2021 as Australia records it's first cases of the Omicron variant of COVID-19. (WILLIAM WEST / AFP) WELLINGTON / ANKARA / MUMBAI / SEOUL – Five people in Sydney, Australia’s largest city, have contracted the Omicron variant of the coronavirus locally, […]
An elderly resident arrives to get tested at a temporary swab centre set up at the void deck area on the ground floor of a public housing block, after a few positive COVID-19 cases were detected in the building, in Singapore on May 21, 2021. (ROSLAN RAHMAN / AFP) SUVA / BAGHDAD / ISLAMABAD / […]
People cycle along the Marina Bay promenade in Singapore on May 7, 2021. (ROSLAN RAHMAN / AFP) DHAKA / SUVA / NEW DELHI / BAGHDAD / VIENTIANE / BEIRUT / ULAN BATOR / YANGON / KATHMANDU / WELLINGTON / DOHA / SINGAPORE / COLOMBO / ANKARA / MANILA / HANOI – Singapore will test thousands […]
In this photo taken on March 22, 2021, a nurse administers the COVID-19 vaccine to a volunteer at the Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol Univeristy in Bangkok. (PHOTO / AFP) SYDNEY / SINGAPORE / NEW DELHI / BAGHDAD / JERUSALEM / AMMAN / KUWAIT CITY / BEIRUT / ULAN BATOR / KATHMANDU / WELLINGTON / […]
A migrant laborer family with their children wait for transport as they return to the city for work in New Delhi, India, Aug 18, 2020. (MANISH SWARUP / AP) NEW DELHI / TEHRAN / BAGHDAD / JERUSALEM / KUWAIT CITY / BEIRUT / ULAN BATOR / YANGON / DOHA / SEOUL / BANGKOK / ANKARA […]
2021-03-24 HKT 07:38″ title=”Hong Kong’s women’s epee fencing team have confirmed their place in the Tokyo Olympics. Photo from Vivian Kong’s Facebook page”> Hong Kong’s women’s epee fencing team have confirmed their place in the Tokyo Olympics. Photo from Vivian Kong’s Facebook page The Hong Kong women’s epee fencing team have qualified for the Olympics […]
Migrant laborers returning to the city for work queue up to register for COVID-19 test in New Delhi, India, Aug 18, 2020. (MANISH SWARUP / AP) RAMALLAH / SYDNEY / JERUSALEM / DUBAI / SEOUL / WELLINGTON – India reported 46,951 new infections, the highest of this year, taking the total to 11,646,081. Meanwhile, 212 more […]
A woman receives a shot of China's Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine during a mass vaccination for people above the age of 60 at Adam Malik Hospital in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, March 8, 2021. (BINSAR BAKKARA / AP) ANKARA / AMMAN / JERUSALEM / KUALA LUMPUR / DHAKA / HANOI / TASHKENT / BISHKEK / JAKARTA […]
In this Feb 21, 2021 photo, a woman receives a dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine during the first rollout of vaccinations in Australia at the Castle Hill Medical Centre in Sydney. (STEVEN SAPHORE / AFP) MANAMA / PHNOM PENH / CANBERRA / NEW DELHI / BAGHDAD / JERUSALEM / KUWAIT CITY / VIENTIANE / […]
A military health worker shows a Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine vial during the vaccination of military personnel at the army headquarters in Manila on March 2, 2021. (PHOTO / AFP) AMMAN / BEIRUT / JERUSELAM – Israel hopes to become the first country to mutually recognize the inoculation of COVID-19 vaccines with China, according to the […]
A nurse fills a syringe with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination centre in Seoul on Feb 27, 2021. (PHOTO / AFP) BEIRUT / BAGHDAD / DOHA – Thailand moved a step closer to issuing vaccine certificates, with a panel of officials backing the proposal seen as a major milestone toward allowing the tourism-reliant […]
An Indian Navy personnel gets inoculated with a COVID-19 vaccine at the INS Angre naval base in Mumbai on March 5, 2021. (PUNIT PARANJPE / AFP) CANBERRA / KABUL / DHAKA / ULAN BATOR / KUALA LUMPUR – India administered 1.4 million vaccine doses in the past 24 hours, health ministry data showed on Friday, […]
A health worker administers a dose of the Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine on a man at the Clalit Health Services in the Palestinian neighbourhood of Beit Hanina, in the Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem on March 2, 2021. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP) DHAKA / BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN / TOKYO / KUALA LUMPUR / DUBAI / MANILA / ANKARA […]
A health worker receives the CoronaVac vaccine, developed by China's Sinovac firm, in Bangkok on Feb 28, 2021. (LILLIAN SUWANRUMPHA / AFP) JERUSALEM / BEIRUT / TEHRAN / BANGKOK / KUALA LUMPUR – Thailand’s prime minister said on Tuesday he has commissioned a study to look into issuing COVID-19 vaccination certificates for international travellers, as the […]
An Iranian health worker prepares a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine as the country launches its inoculation campain, at the Imam Khomeini hospital in the capital Tehran, on Feb 9, 2021. (ATTA KENARE / AFP) KABUL / JERUSALEM / BEIRUT / KUWAIT CITY – Iran recorded 108 deaths from coronavirus in the last 24 hours, the […]
Syringes used to administer the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Coors Field in Denver, Colorado, US, Feb 20, 2021. (CHET STRANGE / BLOOMBERG) SEOUL / DUBAI / JERUSELAＭ / TOKYO －Indonesia is letting the private sector run their own COVID-19 vaccination program alongside the government’s to accelerate Southeast Asia’s largest inoculation drive. Private entities must use […]
People rest by the river during lunch time at Raffles Place financial business district in Singapore on February 16, 2021. (ROSLAN RAHMAN / AFP) JERUSELAM / SEOUL / DUBAI / NEW DELHI / SINGAPORE – Singapore is discussing the mutual recognition of vaccine certificates with other countries, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said, calling it […]
This handout photo taken and released on July 27, 2020 by the Philippines' Presidential Photo Division (PPD) shows Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte delivering his annual State of the Nation Address in congress in Manila. (PHOTO / AFP) NEW DELHI / JERUSALEM / SYDNEY / PHNOM PENH / GAZA / JAKARTA / TEHRAN / BAGHDAD / […]
Thousands of people attend a concert by the band Six60 in Wellington, New Zealand, on Feb 13, 2021. (NICK PERRY / AP) DUBAI / NEW DELHI / BEIRUT / KUALA LUMPUR / WELLINGTON / MELBOURNE / YANGON / SINGAPORE / HANOI / MALE / ISLAMABAD / JAKARTA / MANILA / ULAN BATOR / BANGKOK / […]
People use an escalator in a train station in Tokyo on Feb 2, 2021. (CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP) TOKYO / KABUL / CANBERRA / NEW DELHI / JAKARTA / TEHRAN / JERUSALEM / NUR-SULTAN / BEIRUT / ULAN BATOR / YANGON / WELLINGTON / RAMALLAH / SINGAPORE / SEOUL / BANGKOK / ANKARA – Japanese Prime […]
Since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, the Indian government has not been able to contain the situation and cumulative total of confirmed cases crossed a ten million threshold, there are nearly 160,000 confirmed cases at present, while cumulative number of deaths broke the 150,000 mark, and the number of patients is still climbing on a daily […]
Foreign passengers wearing protective suits line up for their flight to China at Manila's International Airport, Philippines, Jan 18, 2021. (PHOTO / AP) BEIRUT / JERUSALEM / BAGHDAD / MELBOURNE – Of the 428,000 people who were eligible for a “green passport” — meaning at least a week had passed after their second dose of […]
