BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN – Brunei began the administration of second dose of COVID-19 vaccine for adolescents aged 12 to 17 yesterday.According to the Minister of Health, Haji Mohd Isham, the youngsters should have no quarantine orders or self-isolation not…
GENEVA— Pandemic-related disruptions caused tens of thousands more malaria deaths in 2020, the World Health Organization said, but added that urgent action had averted a far worse scenario. In a fresh report, the UN health agency found that Covid-19 …
SINGAPORE – Singapore confirmed yesterday, two imported cases with the Omicron variant of COVID-19, the Ministry of Health said, in a press release.The two Singaporeans had tested preliminarily positive, for the Omicron variant on Dec 2. The National P…
SINGAPORE— Fifty new Malaysia-made halal food products have been made available in a supermarket here through the Halal Route to Market Programme (HalMap), an initiative by Maybank Islamic to broaden the business network of Malaysian small and mid-size…
JAKARTA – At least 14 people were killed and nine villagers remained missing, after Mount Semeru in Lumajang district of Indonesia’s East Java province, erupted on Saturday, the National Disaster Management and Mitigation Agency’s acting spokesman, Abd…
SINGAPORE— One more imported COVID-19 case in Singapore has tested preliminarily positive for the Omicron variant.The case is currently recovering in an isolation ward at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID), said the republic’s Health Mi…
