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More than 500 stallholders, stall assistants and cleaners working at selected hawker centres and coffee shops in the Marine Parade area, along with food delivery…
View More Feedback 'good' as more than 500 hawkers, food delivery riders get free Covid-19 tests
AGRA, INDIA (AFP) – The Taj Mahal reopens to visitors on Monday (Sept 21) in a symbolic business-as-usual gesture, even as India looks set to…
View More Taj Mahal reopens even as India coronavirus cases soar
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The United States set a one-day record with over 1 million coronavirus diagnostic tests being performed, but the country needs 6 million…
View More US sets record with over 1 million coronavirus tests in a day
LONDON (REUTERS) – Britain is at a tipping point on coronavirus, UK Health Minister Matt Hancock said on Sunday (Sept 20), warning that a second…
View More Second lockdown likely as Britain is at Covid-19 tipping point: UK health minister Hancock
LONDON (AFP, XINHUA) – London’s hard-hit live entertainment sector is hoping to prove it can resurrect itself from the coronavirus shutdown – and a series…
View More London's music goes underground to beat Covid-19 lockdown blues
(ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – As the coronavirus pandemic drags on with no end in sight, people around the world are increasingly pinning their hopes on…
View More The perils of vaccine messianism
LONDON (BLOOMBERG) – British Health Secretary Matt Hancock declined to rule out a second national lockdown amid a surge of coronavirus cases across the United…
View More UK refuses to rule out new lockdown as Covid-19 surges again
The world cannot wait for, or expect, a vaccine to stop the pandemic. People and countries must work with the tools they have today, said…
View More World cannot wait for Covid-19 vaccine, must work with tools at hand: Experts
PARIS (REUTERS) – France registered a record 10,593 new confirmed coronavirus in the past 24 hours, health ministry data showed on Thursday (Sept 17), the…
View More France reports highest number of new Covid-19 cases in a day
SINGAPORE – A Covid-19 test kit which greatly reduces the time needed to diagnose a patient was launched by home-grown biotech company Veredus Laboratories on…
View More Local company launches Covid-19 test kit that can speed up diagnosis
LONDON (BLOOMBERG) – When Mr Martin Lane needed a coronavirus test for his five-year-old son, he spent two days trying to book one without success.…
View More PM Johnson's Covid test chaos threatens UK economic revival
The number of people testing positive for coronavirus in England is now double the number recorded when the country’s Test and Trace system was launched…
View More Coronavirus: Positive COVID-19 tests double than at Test and Trace launch, latest figures show
Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s penchant for sharing misinformation about the novel coronavirus earned him a slap on the wrist from Facebook and Instagram on…
View More Tucker Carlson gets fact-checked by social media sites
SYDNEY (REUTERS) – Global coronavirus cases are expected to pass 30 million on Thursday (Sept 17), according to a Reuters tally, with the pandemic showing…
View More Global coronavirus cases to soon surpass 30 million: Reuters tally