As of Dec 19, 80 per cent of firms have attained full vaccine coverage for their workforce.The Straits Times/Kua Chee Siong Around 52,000 employees in Singapore have not taken any Covid-19 vaccine, the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) said on Monday (Dec 27). Around 6,700 are aged 60 and above, and are at a very high risk of...
As the highly transmissible Omicron variant is set to become the dominant Covid-19 variant globally, some experts have called for the public to wear well fitted face respirators such as N95 masks amid concerns that the commonly used cloth and surgical masks might not offer enough protection. N95 masks are usually used by health care workers...
NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 04: (L-R) Television personality Mike 'The Situation' Sorrentino attends MTV's "Jersey Shore Family Vacation" New York premiere party at PHD at the Dream Downtown on April 4, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images for MTV) Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino sadly had to miss his son Romeo‘s first Christmas. On Friday...
The Straits Times file Students who sat for the Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) in 2021 received their Secondary 1 school posting results on Wednesday (Dec 22). This batch of students is the first to take the PSLE under the new scoring system that replaced the T-score system. This year, students were given an Achievement Level (AL) score ranging from 1 to...
US President Joe Biden dispensed unvarnished advice on Tuesday (Dec 21) to the one in four American adults who have yet to be vaccinated for the coronavirus vaccine: The new Omicron variant can make you very sick or even kill you. A Democrat, Biden took office in January pledging to get the coronavirus under control after...
Source: Sinar Harian & Causeway Link Previously, the Singaporean and Malaysian governments announced that a VTL will be opening up between the two countries. Now, they have announced that the VTL is accessible to all starting from 20 December. In a press release by the Singaporean Ministry of Trade and Industry on 14 December, they said that starting from...
The Singaporean Ministry of Health has reported two imported Covid-19 cases of the Omicron variant following preliminary testing. Based on a report by The Straits Times, both patients were aboard Singapore Airlines flight SQ479, arriving from Johannesburg on Wednesday (1 December). “They have undergone a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test upon arrival in Singapore and were immediately conveyed...
An Omicron variant case has been detected in Malaysia as of yesterday, 2 December 2021. Health Minister, Khairy Jamaluddin, shared the worrisome news in a statement. “The Institute for Medical Research (IMR) has conducted PCR Genotyping Assay tests to over 74 Covid-19 positive samples detected at KLIA from 11 November to 28 November.” “As a result of the PCR...
The Omicron variant has spread to all corners of the globe at a rapid rate with seemingly no end in sight. Yesterday, our neighbours reported their first cases. Meanwhile, just today, Malaysia reported its first cases of the “variant of concern“. This has prompted the Health Ministry to restrict and discourage any outbound overseas travel for Malaysians as well as inbound for international tourists...
Some 70,000 people who took two Sinovac or Sinopharm jabs have till Dec 31 to get their third dose in order to keep their fully vaccinated status from Jan 1, while the grace period for children turning 13 next year to get fully vaccinated has been extended by two months to March 1. The Ministry of Health...
