TOKYO (REUTERS) – Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine contamination woes in Japan widened after two regions put temporary holds on shots following the discovery of foreign substances in more batches. The disruption to Moderna supplies comes as Japan battles its worst wave of Covid-19 yet, driven by the contagious Delta variant, with new daily infections exceeding 25,000 […]
WELLINGTON (XINHUA, REUTERS) – New Zealand reported 53 new community cases of Covid-19 linked to the Delta variant in Auckland on Monday (Aug 30), bringing the total number of cases in the country’s community outbreak to 562. The total number of community cases in Auckland, the country’s largest city, stands at 547. In the capital Wellington, […]
KUALA LUMPUR (REUTERS, THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – Malaysian Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob is under quarantine following a close contact with a Covid-19 patient, his office said in a statement on Monday (Aug 30). His office did not say how long he would be in quarantine or whether he had been tested for the […]
SINGAPORE – Eligible, non-resident foreign seafarers will have the option of receiving Covid-19 vaccinations in Singapore starting on Monday (Aug 30), said Senior Minister of State for Transport Chee Hong Tat. The Sea Crew Vaccination Initiative (Seavax) will offer Pfizer-BioNTech/Comirnaty or Moderna vaccines to crew who stay for more than 30 days and who work […]
SINGAPORE – A total of 120 bus drivers have been infected with Covid-19 so far, said the Land Transport Authority (LTA) which is working with public transport operators to minimise the impact on services. The number of clusters involving bus interchanges has grown to seven after the first two – at Bishan and Sengkang – […]
FILE PHOTO: Full shelves with fruits are pictured in a supermarket during the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Berlin, Germany, March 17, 2020. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch/File Photo GLOBAL BUSINESS WEEK AHEADBERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s annual consumer price inflation accelerated to hit a fresh 13-year high in August, data showed on Monday, underlining growing price […]
KATHMANDU (THE KATHMANDU POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – When I say browsing through any website isn’t free, I don’t mean the price you pay to your internet service providers or the price you pay for your electricity bill. It’s not even the price you pay to get hold of the electronic devices to access such accounts; […]
TAIPEI (REUTERS) – Mr Terry Gou, the billionaire founder of major Apple Inc supplier Foxconn, has asked BioNTech SE to reserve 30 million doses of its Covid-19 vaccine for Taiwan, saying he had received a “very good” response. Taiwan’s quest to access the vaccine, jointly developed with Pfizer Inc, has dragged on for months, hampered […]
WELLINGTON (REUTERS) – New Zealand on Monday (Aug 30) reported what authorities said was the country’s first recorded death linked to the Pfizer CovidD-19 vaccine. The information was released by the health ministry following a review by an independent Covid-19 vaccine safety monitoring board of the death of a woman after receiving the vaccine. The ministry’s […]
NEW DELHI (REUTERS) – India’s rising output of Covid-19 vaccines and the inoculation of more than half its adult population with at least one dose are raising hopes the country will return as an exporter within months, ramping up from early next year. After donating or selling 66 million doses to nearly 100 countries, India […]