Andrea Choh Chau Lin Nurse clinician, Singapore General Hospital (SGH) Although she has been a nurse for 18 years, Andrea still remembers how nervous she felt when she had to perform her first intravenous (IV) cannulation on a patient. Inserting a cannula, or a thin tube, into the vein to administer a fluid into the […]

BEIJING (XINHUA) – China has every right to be suspicious of the undue focus that the West placed on the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a US journalist has said, noting that biased investigations into and politicisation of Covid-19 origins would lead only to more questions than answers. “The lab leak theory is a highly politicised […]

SINGAPORE – There were 117 new locally transmitted coronavirus cases on Sunday (July 25), including 46 cases connected to the growing cluster linked to the Jurong Fishery Port. This brings the total number of cases in the Jurong Fishery Port cluster to 787. There were also five new cases linked to the KTV cluster, taking […]

SINGAPORE – Mandatory Covid-19 testing for residents of Block 456 Ang Mo Kio Avenue 10 started on Sunday morning (July 25). Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, who is one of the MPs for Ang Mo Kio GRC, arrived at about 12.20pm and spoke to residents, shop owners and swabbing staff before leaving around 1pm. The […]

HANOI (REUTERS) – The United States is considering giving more coronavirus vaccines to Vietnam, its ambassador to the United States said on Sunday (July 25), as the South-east Asian country struggles to control outbreaks of the fast-spreading Delta variant of the virus. After successfully containing the virus for much of the pandemic, Vietnam has been […]

PHNOM PENH – (NYTIMES) – The patients sit in packed ambulances before passing through metal gates. Once they are inside, they get a number, like C07-22, a thin blanket and a bedsheet, which is meant to be a mosquito net. Lights shine bright at all hours for constant camera surveillance. Each person is given four […]

PHNOM PENH – (NYTIMES) – The patients sit in packed ambulances before passing through metal gates. Once they are inside, they get a number, like C07-22, a thin blanket and a bedsheet, which is meant to be a mosquito net. Lights shine bright at all hours for constant camera surveillance. Each person is given four […]

SINGAPORE – Ever since her employer’s son and daughter-in-law returned from the United States in January, her workload in the family’s five-storey house has taken a great toll on her. Yanti (not her real name), a domestic worker, said the family of four rings a bell for her to attend to their every need. Please […]

SINGAPORE – An unvaccinated 83-year-old Singaporean woman has died from complications due to Covid-19 infection on Saturday (July 24). She resided at Bukit Merah View, and was linked to the Block 121 Bukit Merah View cluster, the Health Ministry (MOH) said. The woman developed symptoms on June 16 but did not seek medical attention until […]

BANGKOK – For days, Ms Thuzar Myint wept in despair. Five out of six people in her household – including herself – were down with Covid-19. She was too sick to report for work at a garment factory in Yangon, and too poor to take her elderly parents to the clinic. They were wasting away […]