BANGKOK (REUTERS) – AstraZeneca has asked Thailand to extend the timeline for the delivery of 61 million doses of its Covid-19 vaccine by five months, a deputy minister said on Thursday (July 15), a move likely to disrupt further the country’s sluggish vaccine rollout. Deputy Health Minister Sathit Pitutacha said AstraZeneca currently had the capacity […]
JAKARTA (THE JAKARTA POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – Being relegated from an upper-middle to a lower-middle income country has undone some of the progress Indonesia had made over the last two decades, when our economy grew to bring greater prosperity to the nation and its people. But rather than ruing this relegation in the World Bank’s […]
JAKARTA (THE JAKARTA POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – Being relegated from an upper-middle to a lower-middle income country has undone some of the progress Indonesia had made over the last two decades, when our economy grew to bring greater prosperity to the nation and its people. But rather than ruing this relegation in the World Bank’s […]
JAKARTA (REUTERS) – Indonesia is bracing for its Covid-19 outbreak to get worse after a near vertical climb in cases, a senior minister said on Thursday (July 15), warning that infections had spread faster than anticipated due to the more virulent Delta variant. The world’s fourth most populous country is struggling to slow virus transmission […]
JAKARTA (REUTERS) – Indonesia is bracing for its Covid-19 outbreak to get worse after a near vertical climb in cases, a senior minister said on Thursday (July 15), warning that infections had spread faster than anticipated due to the more virulent Delta variant. The world’s fourth most populous country is struggling to slow virus transmission […]
SUKKUR, PAKISTAN (AFP) – Freshwater dolphins are flourishing in a stretch of Pakistan’s main river after a helping hand from fishermen mobilised to defend a rare species driven to near-extinction. Identifiable by their saw-like beaks, Indus River dolphins once swam from the Himalayas to the Arabian sea, but now mostly cluster in a 180km length […]
SEOUL (REUTERS) – South Korea reported 1,600 new Covid-19 cases on Thursday (July 15), a slight drop from the record number the previous day, as it battles to contain an outbreak on board a military anti-piracy vessel operating overseas. The country tightened social distancing rules across most of the country on Wednesday, when it reported […]
SYDNEY (REUTERS) – Australian authorities are rushing to track close contacts of several positive Covid-19 cases in Victoria linked to Sydney’s Delta variant outbreak amid concerns of a major flare-up in infections and further tough restrictions. Dozens of new venues in Melbourne including a shopping centre, two public transport routes and a sporting club were […]
SINGAPORE – There is likely ongoing transmission of the coronavirus at four more KTV lounges or clubs currently operating as food and beverage outlets, said the Ministry of Health (MOH) on Wednesday night (July 14). Those who have visited these clubs or similar KTV lounges operating as F&B outlets should come forward for free Covid-19 testing, […]
COLOMBO (BLOOMBERG) – The United States is sending more than 1.5 million doses of Moderna Inc’s coronavirus vaccine to Sri Lanka on Wednesday (July 14), the latest shipment as President Joe Biden begins sharing the American stockpile of shots. The doses will arrive in Sri Lanka on Friday and are being sent through Covax, the […]