Health

There’s an update about the anticipated campaign for mass vaccinations to be carried out in December by Indonesian President Joko Widodo faces a pause after the country’s food and drug agency cautioned that because of insufficient results, it would not be able to provide emergency authorization until late January. The President shared  last week that Indonesia planned next month to …

MALAYSIA, KUALA LUMPUR Nov 18 —Conditional movement control order (CMCO) continued to remain the temporarily closing of Nightclubs nationwide as the order of the government, temporary measure to reduce the risk of COVID-19 spreading and said not mean to be permanent as long as standard operating procedures (SOPs) are followed with, Minister said Prime Minister’s Department (special functions), Datuk Seri …

Indonesia requested emergency permission to launch a mass vaccination program to fight the coronavirus in the archipelago by the end of the year, the president of the South-East Asian nation said on Friday (Nov 13). President Joko Widodo shared that the preparations were already advanced to spread the vaccine throughout the entire world. If approval is issued by the food …

Malaysia has been recognized as one of the world’s most successful countries in dealing with and controlling the Covid-29 pandemic, Premier Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said. Speaking to around 250 workers of the Department of Prime Minister at their meeting here today after the introduction of the Movement Control Order (MCO), Muhyiddin said the success was due to the hard …

MANILA – The Philippines’ confirmed coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) rises to  to 38,805 after the Department of Health (DOH) reported 294 more infections on Thursday. The DOH said 242 cases are “late” cases or were part of the DOH’s backlog while 52 are “fresh” or detected within three days. According to the DOH, the new cases were significantly fewer compared …

An expert virologist at Thailand’s Chulalongkorn University reports that a news swine flu virus found in pigs in China has pandemic potential. However it is not an immediate problem and there is no reason to panic yet. The G4 EA H1N1 swine flu virus, a mutation of the H1N1 virus. Which first hit the world in 2009, was recently found …

MANILA – The Minor Basilica of the Black Nazarene or Quiapo Church will be on lockdown until next week after a priest tested positive for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Parish priest Fr. Douglas Badong confirmed that Quaipo Church has been on a lockdown since June 19 after a priest who stayed in the church during the imposed community quarantine …

Malaysians returning from overseas would have to pay a total of RM30 to RM150 to be screened for Covid-19 upon their admission into the country from now on, whereas non-citizens would have to pay higher rates depending on the form of testing carried out, new rules released by the government said. The updated rules released on June 26 and entering …

A passenger who flew from Soekarno Hatta Airport to Domine Edward Sorong Airport, on Saturday 27 June 2020, was confirmed positive for Covid-19. The person was a passenger of the Garuda Indonesia airline with flight number GA 682. Respond to that issue, PT Garuda Indonesia (Persero) Tbk, Sorong branch, claimed did not know that there was GA 682 passenger arriving …

After the Covid-19 pandemic, Thai’s now view the World Health Organisation (WHO) as an unreliable source on health issues, Dr Manoon Leechawengwongs, a specialist at Bangkok’s Vichaiyut Hospital, said. He pointed out that WHO is quite slow in providing information. Especially when they inform the public on certain issues, these tend to change constantly. The organization previously caused Thais to …