SINGAPORE – Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) has extended its emergency department to create more room for screening as part of Covid-19 measures. The hospital said in a Facebook post on Monday night (Sept 20) that patients arriving by car or taxi to the Centre for Geriatric Medicine or emergency department should note that the […]
SINGAPORE – Two men above the age of 80 have died, taking Singapore’s Covid-19 death toll to 62, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said on Monday (Sept 20). The first was an 84-year-old male Singaporean who died of complications due to Covid-19 infection on Sunday. He was taken to Ng Teng Fong General Hospital on […]
BANGKOK (REUTERS) – Doctors in Thailand have been given the go-ahead to start giving Covid-19 booster shots under the skin, rather than injecting them into muscles, officials said on Monday (Sept 20), in an effort to strengthen immunity and stretch vaccine supplies. Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said the method, which doctors began exploring last month, […]
SINGAPORE – Slightly less than 10 per cent of 9,500 public bus drivers have been affected by the Covid-19 outbreak in the interchanges but services have not taken a big hit. Transport Minister S. Iswaran said on Monday (Sept 20) on the sidelines of the Ministry of Transport Conference that these drivers either contracted the […]
SINGAPORE – With Covid-19 cases rising in the community, getting vaccinated is now a matter of life and death for seniors here, experts said. Health experts warned that more clusters are likely to form in nursing homes, given the close proximity of seniors living near each other and the regular footfall of staff changing shifts. […]
SINGAPORE – Fish fillets and even fish maw made from cell culture instead of slaughter could soon appear on dinner tables here, with Chinese firm Avant set to open a pilot production facility for cultivated fish cells in Singapore by next year. This facility, announced by the firm on Monday (Sept 20), will come alongside […]
SINGAPORE – Vaccinated travellers from more countries are likely able to enter Singapore without having to quarantine “in the coming weeks and months”. This comes after a successful start to the Vaccinated Travel Lane (VTL), with only one Covid-19 case detected upon arrival among some 900 travellers who have come in under the scheme. Transport […]
JAKARTA (REUTERS) – Even as Indonesia wins cautious praise from some green groups for ambitious plans to cut carbon emissions, the world’s biggest exporter of thermal coal shows no sign of weaning itself off the polluting fuel any time soon. Indonesia, the world’s eighth-biggest carbon emitter, recently brought forward its goal for net zero emissions […]
NEW DELHI (REUTERS) – India conducted the lowest number of daily Covid-19 tests since mid-August on Sunday (Sept 19), but the health ministry urged local governments not to let their guard down during the September to November festival season. States and federally controlled territories carried out 1.18 million tests on Sunday, government data showed on […]
SINGAPORE – A man was charged on Monday (Sept 20) with operating three unlicensed massage parlours in Brighton Crescent, Hougang Street 21 and Jalan Besar. The Ang Mo Kio and Central Police Divisions conducted a series of enforcement operations between December last year and June this year and found the man to be allegedly operating […]