Singapore – The impending Omicron wave in Singapore might reach 15,000 cases per day, which is many times higher than the Delta wave, which peaked at roughly 5,000 cases per day last year. At a press conference on Wednesday (Jan 5), Associate Professor Kenneth Mak, director of medical services at the Ministry of Health (MOH), said that this is comparable …

Singapore – According to Dr Janil Puthucheary, the Ministry of Health (MOH) has not received any reports of significant adverse events or myocarditis in children aged five to 11 as of last Friday (Jan 7). “Most adverse effects encountered by children following vaccination have been mild, including as injection site soreness, weariness, and fever, and they normally pass in a …

Asean – The anti-vaccination YouTube videos by the Healing the Divide group, which were posted on the channel of its founder Iris Koh, have been removed, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said on Sunday (Nov 7). The videos, which contain false claims warning people about the dangers of vaccination, were taken down from YouTube by the Google-owned platform itself for …

Datuk Seri Tengku Zafrul Tengku Abdul Aziz, the Coordinating Minister for the National Recovery Plan (PPN) said that workplace Covid-19 clusters already reaching a number of 735 clusters have recorded 60,000 cases which is the highest from June 1 to July 23. According to the finance minister, among all the clusters, a total of 373 or 50.7 per cent are …

Surprisingly, State-run agro industry, drug and exchange PT Rajawali Nusantara Indonesia (RNI) has created publicity oxygen generator to satisfy homegrown need of oxygen during the COVID-19 pandemic. In view of this, PT RNI’s President Director Arief Prasetyo Adi said RNI Group’s auxiliary Mitra Rajawali Banjaran (MRB) delivered different kinds of Hype Oxygen Generator, incorporating 02G-50 with ability to create 50 …

The Ministry of Health (MOH) recorded another rise in the number of the Covid-19 patients placed in intensive care units (ICU) during the last 24 hours, having reached a total of 961 cases of patients with severe symptoms by noon. In the same period, the death reports came to a total of 91. Public health workers sent desperate appeals for …

SINGAPORE: Singapore has one of the most successful strategies in the world to fight the coronavirus pandemic, but there is growing concern among rights activists that this is coming at a price, with “unjustified surveillance” through the communication tracing mechanisms of the government. With slightly more than 59,100 confirmed virus infections, there have been only 29 coronavirus-related deaths in the …

SINGAPORE – On 1 January 2021, the minimum mandatory age for the purchase, use, possession, selling, and supply of tobacco products will be increased from the existing 20 years to 21. This is the third and final change to the minimum age requirement under the amendments to the Tobacco (Advertising and Sale Control) Act passed in November 2017 by Parliament.The …

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 30-  Iskandar Puteri MP Lim Kit Siang today called on the Cabinet to set up a special sitting of Dewan Rakyat in January to test the “runaway” third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic here. The DAP veteran said in a statement today that the 1,925 new Covid-19 cases registered in the country yesterday placed Malaysia as 35th …

PETALING JAYA: For all districts in Selangor and Kuala Lumpur, the conditional movement control order (CMCO) will be extended until January 14 next year, Senior Security Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob said. Ismail said this, speaking at a press conference, was due to the high number of active cases in the affected regions.Except in the districts of Sabak Bernam, Hulu Selangor …