covid

Covid-19 cases recorded in EW 14/2024 show significant drop — MOH

PUTRAJAYA — The number of COVID-19 cases dropped by 97.1 per cent to 493 cases in the 14th Epidemiological Week…

7 months ago

22 arrested over suspected €600m EU Covid fund fraud

BRUSSELS — Authorities arrested 22 people across four European countries on Thursday as part of a probe into a suspected…

7 months ago

COVID-19: No new variants detected, situation under control – Dr Dzulkefly

PUTRAJAYA – No new COVID-19 variants have been detected in the country and the situation remains under control with most…

10 months ago

Covid-19 case doubled to more than 12,000 in one week

THE number of reported Covid-19 cases has increased from 6,796 to 12,757 in one week, says health director-general Dr Radzi…

11 months ago

Ex-PM Johnson apologises to UK Covid victims families

LONDON – Boris Johnson (picture) on Wednesday apologised for “the pain and the loss and the suffering” caused by the Covid-19 pandemic,…

11 months ago

Long Covid linked to multiple organ changes, research suggests

PARIS – A third of people hospitalised with Covid-19 have “abnormalities” in multiple organs months after getting infected, a UK…

1 year ago

World economy set for weak inflation-plagued recovery, OECD warns

THE global economy is set for a weak recovery from the shocks of Covid and Russia’s war in Ukraine, dogged…

1 year ago

67m children missed out on vaccines because of Covid: UNICEF

UNITED STATES | Some 67 million children partially or fully missed routine vaccines globally between 2019 and 2021 because of…

2 years ago

Raccoon dog data sparks new debate about Covid origins

PARIS – New evidence that raccoon dogs were at the Chinese market where Covid is suspected to have first infected…

2 years ago

Hong Kong offers 500,000 free flights after Covid isolation

HONG KONG – Hong Kong is ready to welcome the world back, its leader said Thursday, pledging more than half…

2 years ago

Merck Covid drug linked to new virus mutations, study says

Merck & Co.’s Covid-19 pill is giving rise to new mutations of the virus in some patients, according to a…

2 years ago

Asia hedge funds avert disaster on scale of financial crisis with China’s reopening

Investors have quickly turn optimistic and economists are scrambling to revise up their GDP forecasts  by BEI HU & NISHANT…

2 years ago

‘Not afraid of the virus’: Wuhan turns page on Covid, three years on

WUHAN – Residents of China’s Wuhan said Monday they were hopeful for the future and no longer afraid of Covid-19,…

2 years ago