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2021-09-29 23:35:59 #CNA #LatestNews
Coronavirus can transform pancreas cell function; certain genes may protect an infected person's spouse

September 30, 2021 at 04:04AM


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2021-09-29 11:00:34 #ST #Asia
Indonesia weighs free Covid-19 boosters as 'inevitable' third wave looms

September 29, 2021 3:32 PM

JAKARTA (BLOOMBERG) - Indonesia is finalising a plan to offer free Covid-19 vaccine boosters to more than 114 million people in anticipation of an "inevitable" third wave of coronavirus outbreak.
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2021-09-29 06:00:21 #ST #Asia
New Zealand's Covid-19 cases jump as it battles Delta variant

September 29, 2021 10:32 AM

WELLINGTON (REUTERS) - New Zealand's daily coronavirus cases jumped to their highest level in weeks on Wednesday (Sept 29), a setback to the South Pacific nation's battle to eliminate the highly infectious Delta variant from its shores.
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2021-09-28 18:00:20 #ST #Asia
Japan to fully lift Covid-19 emergency as cases fall dramatically nationwide

September 28, 2021 9:55 PM

TOKYO - Japan appears to be out of the woods from a Covid-19 wave because of the contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus, allowing Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga to end an ongoing state of emergency as planned at midnight on Thursday (Sept 30) in one of his last acts in office.
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2021-09-28 05:00:37 #ST #Asia
Japan seeks to lift state of emergency at end-September: Minister

September 28, 2021 8:42 AM

TOKYO (REUTERS) - The Japanese government will seek advisers' approval to lift all emergency curbs at the end of the month as the number of new coronavirus cases falls and the strain on the medical system eases, Economy Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura said on Tuesday (Sept 28).
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2021-09-24 09:35:55 #CNA #LatestNews
Thai August exports miss forecast on coronavirus curbs

September 24, 2021 at 11:19AM


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2021-09-23 07:00:15 #ST #Asia
New Zealand's Ardern says Covid-19 lockdowns can end with high vaccine uptake

September 23, 2021 11:17 AM

WELLINGTON (REUTERS) - New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Thursday the country should aim for a more than 90 per cent rate of inoculation, and could drop strict coronavirus lockdown measures once enough people were vaccinated.
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2021-09-23 05:00:41 #ST #Asia
Coronavirus: Duterte taps military to assist hospitals as nurses get sick

September 23, 2021 9:24 AM

Defence Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said the military has started to dispatch nurses to at least one hospital. 
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