Commuters leave a train station during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Singapore, Sept 23, 2021. (EDGAR SU / REUTERS) SINGAPORE / YANGON / MANILA / HANOI – Singapore reported 7,146 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, bringing the total tally to 1,924,139. Of the new cases, 444 were detected through PCR (polymerase chain reaction) […]
A health worker in personal protective equipment collects a swab sample from a woman during a rapid antigen testing campaign for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at a railway station platform in Mumbai, India, Aug 27, 2021. (Francis Mascarenhas / REUTERS) SEOUL / ISLAMABAD / KUALA LUMPUR / NEW DELHI / WELLINGTON – New Zealand could […]
Staff check a client at a drive-through COVID-19 testing clinic at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia on Jan 8, 2022. (MARK BAKER / AP) SYDNEY / HANOI / SINGAPORE / MANILA / YANGON – Australia will end the mandatory five-day home quarantine for COVID-infected people on Oct 14, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Friday, even as some doctors […]
Volunteers pray in front of bodies of people who died due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), during their funeral at a cemetery in Mandalay, Myanmar July 14, 2021. (Stringer / REUTERS) YANGON / KUALA LUMPUR / SEOUL / SINGAPORE / MANILA / HANOI – Myanmar will extend its COVID-19 preventive measures until Oct 31, according […]
Medical staff transport a patient from the Royal Melbourne Hospital in Melbourne on Oct 9, 2021. (WILLIAM WEST / AFP) SYDNEY – A new research led by Australia's University of Queensland has discovered how COVID-19 damages the heart, opening the door to future treatments. The study, published in Immunology, has found that while both COVID-19 […]
People wearing face masks cross a road amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Singapore May 14, 2021. (CAROLINE CHIA / REUTERS) SINGAPORE / YANGON / MANILA / HANOI – Singapore reported 3,431 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, bringing the total tally to 1,904,192.Of the new cases, 295 cases were detected through PCR (polymerase […]
A woman receives a shot of China's Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine in Yangon, Myanmar, Aug 29, 2021. (PHOTO / XINHUA) YANGON / SINGAPORE / HANOI / MANILA / KUALA LUMPUR – Myanmar has vaccinated more than 37.1 million people against COVID-19 as of Tuesday, the Ministry of Health's data showed. The figures comprised over 30.5 million people aged 18 […]
A woman wearing a mask to curb the spread of coronavirus sits inside a bus in Jakarta, Indonesia on May 17, 2022. (DITA ALANGKARA / AP) SINGAPORE / MANILA / YANGON / ISLAMABAD / HANOI / TOKYO / NEW DELHI / CANBERRA / KUALA LUMPUR / JAKARTA / SEOUL – Indonesia has approved its first domestically-produced COVID-19 vaccine for […]
People wear face masks while shopping for groceries at a supermarket in Singapore on May 14, 2021. (ZEN SOO / AP) SINGAPORE / MANILA / YANGON / ISLAMABAD / HANOI – Singapore reported 4,360 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, bringing the total tally to 1,897,307. Singapore logged two deaths from COVID-19 on Tuesday, bringing […]
People wearing protective masks to help curb the spread of the coronavirus walk across a pedestrian crossing in Tokyo on July 29, 2022. (SHUJI KAJIYAMA / AP) TOKYO / ISLAMABAD / BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN / MANILA / SINGAPORE / HANOI / YANGON – The Japanese government will run a new domestic tourism subsidy program from […]
The pandemic is by no means over. "We are still in the tunnel. We are just beginning to glimpse the light at the end of that tunnel," Director-General of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters on Thursday, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly. The end "is still a long […]
People wearing protective masks to help curb the spread of the coronavirus walk across a pedestrian crossing in Tokyo on July 29, 2022. (SHUJI KAJIYAMA / AP) SEOUL / KUALA LUMPUR / YANGON / ISLAMABAD / MANILA / SINGAPORE / HANOI / TOKYO / NEW DELHI – Japan on Monday expanded its simplified system for […]
People wearing face masks visit to celebrate Chuseok holidays, the Korean version of Thanksgiving Day, at the Gyeongbok Palace in Seoul, South Korea, on Sept 11, 2022. (AHN YOUNG-JOON / AP) SEOUL / KUALA LUMPUR / YANGON / ISLAMABAD / MANILA / SINGAPORE / HANOI – The Republic of Korea reported 14,168 new COVID-19 cases […]
A health worker takes sample from a man for COVID-19 test in Hanoi, Vietnam on Jan 6, 2022. (HAU DINH / AP) HANOI / KUALA LUMPUR / NEW DELHI / SINGAPORE – Vietnam recorded 2,545 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, up 617 from Thursday, according to the Ministry of Health. All the new cases were locally […]
HONG KONG, Sep 23, 2022 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – AIM Vaccine Co., Ltd. (“AIM Vaccine” or the “Company”, together with its subsidiaries, the “Group”, stock code: 06660.HK), the second largest vaccine company in China in terms of 2021 approved lot release volume (excluding COVID-19 vaccines), announced the proposed listing of its H shares […]
Passengers head to a Covid-19 quarantine station for clearance following their arrival at Tokyo's Haneda Airport on June 1, 2022. (KAZUHIRO NOGI / AFP) NEW YORK / MANILA / SINGAPORE / YANGON / ISLAMABAD – Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Thursday his country will ease COVID-19 border control requirements next month, a key […]
Judit Kagan, 75, receives her fourth dose of the coronavirus vaccine in a private nursing home in Petah Tikva, Israel on Jan 4, 2022. (ARIEL SCHALIT / AP) JERUSALEM / YANGON / MANILA / SINGAPORE / HANOI – Israel on Wednesday began providing the booster shot of an Omicron-adapted COVID-19 vaccine across the country, said […]
Passengers arrive from their flight at the reopened Changi International Airport Terminal 4 in Singapore on Sept 13, 2022, following its closure for more than two years due to the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. (ROSLAN RAHMAN / AFP) SINGAPORE / YANGON / MANILA / HANOI – Singapore reported 3,222 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, bringing […]
A health worker inoculates a student with a dose of the Pfizer vaccine against the Covid-19 coronavirus, at a school in Lahore on Sept 19, 2022. (ARIF ALI / AFP) ISLAMABAD / YANGON / SINGAPORE / MANILA / HANOI / BISHKEK / KUALA LUMPUR – Pakistan launched a COVID-19 vaccination campaign on Monday for children aged five to 11 in […]
Medical staff transport a patient from the Royal Melbourne Hospital in Melbourne on Oct 9, 2021, as Victoria state recorded 1965 new COVID-19 cases, its highest daily infection number since the start of the pandemic, putting more pressure on the state's struggling health system. (WILLIAM WEST / AFP) HANOI / MANILA / SINGAPORE / YANGON / CANBERRA / WELLINGTON / […]
People crowd a street filled with stores as they shop in Manila on Feb 4, 2022. (TED ALJIBE / AFP) HANOI / MANILA / YANGON – Philippine Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said on Friday that Metro Manila "is again back to moderate risk classification" amid surging COVID-19 cases in the capital region. The Philippines reported […]
A medical worker inoculates a colleague with a COVID-19 vaccine at the All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS) in New Delhi, India, on Jan 16, 2021. (SAJJAD HUSSAIN / AFP) SEOUL / MANILA / SINGAPORE / NEW DELHI / KUALA LUMPUR / ISLAMABAD – India's daily COVID-19 caseload Friday decreased to 6,298, according to federal health ministry […]
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 […]
People queue outside a department store in Melbourne on Oct 29, 2021 as the city further lifts COVID-19 restrictions allowing non-essential retail shops to open and travel to the regions of Victoria after the city's sixth lockdown. (WILLIAM WEST / AFP) JERUSALEM / AMMAN / YANGON / SINGAPORE / MANILA / CANBERRA / KUALA LUMPUR / NEW DELHI / […]
A man receives the fourth dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at the Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, Israel on Dec 31, 2021. (TSAFRUR ABAYOV / AP) JERUSALEM / AMMAN / YANGON / SINGAPORE / MANILA – Israel will offer the updated COVID-19 booster shots from Pfizer/BioNTech designed to combat the Omicron BA.4/5 subvariants by the end of […]
This photo, provided by Office of the Governor of New York, shows Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at the Boriken Neighborhood Health Center, in New York on Sept 7, 2022. (DON POLLARD / OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK VIA AP) SINGAPORE / SEOUL / ISLAMABAD / NEW DELHI / KUALA LUMPUR / BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN – Singapore on Wednesday […]
A man looks out a window while in quarantine at the Ramada Hotel in Auckland, New Zealand, March 30, 2020. (BRETT PHIBBS / NEW ZEALAND HERALD VIA AP) SYDNEY / MANILA / SINGAPORE / HANOI – New Zealand scrapped mask wearing rules and vaccine mandates on Monday, bringing an end to some of the toughest COVID-19 pandemic […]
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 […]
BANDUNG, INDONESIA, Sep 12, 2022 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – PT Bio Farma, the holding company for state-owned pharmaceutical companies in Indonesia, announced a new milestone in manufacturing IndoVac, its Covid-19 vaccines brand, including primary series vaccines, booster vaccines and vaccines for children, in development since November 2021. IndoVac Covid-19 vaccine in production at […]
A staff member transfers China-donated COVID-19 vaccines at Yangon International Airport in Yangon, Myanmar, Sept 9, 2022. (PHOTO / XINHUA) YANGON / SINGAPORE / MANILA / HANOI – Myanmar has accelerated its control and prevention measures for COVID-19 as transmission increases in the country, according to media reports. The measures included boosting vaccinations, encouraging and sharing knowledge of […]