Attendants at Changi Airport’s Terminal 3 handling luggage belonging to passengers from a flight which arrived from London on Dec 22,, 2020.- ST
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): One case of a new coronavirus strain reported in the United Kingdom to be potentially more contagious has been detected here, said the Ministry of Health (MOH) on Wednesday (Dec 23).
The patient is a 17-year-old Singaporean girl who had studied in the UK.
The Health Ministry said that with the B117 strain circulating in the UK, the National Public Health Laboratory is performing viral genomic sequencing for confirmed Covid-19 cases who arrived from Europe recently.
Stephen Chow admitted in court to making the promise, but he said they were merely sweet words uttered during courtship. Photo: Handout The ex-girlfriend of Stephen Chow has lost her lawsuit against the Hong Kong actor-director. She had accused him of failing to pay her commission totalling more than HK$70mil (RM37mil).
According to the judgement released by the Hong Kong High Court on Wednesday (Dec 23), Alice Yu will thus have to foot the legal fees incurred.
Chow, 58, and Ms Yu, 49, split up in 2010 after a 13-year relationship. He has directed hits such as
Kung Fu Hustle (2004),
The Mermaid (2016).
Current research indicates that new strains will not affect the effectiveness of vaccines.- ST
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): With the discovery of new, more contagious strains of the Covid-19 virus in Britain and South Africa, it may now be important for more Singaporeans to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, said a health expert here.
Professor Teo Yik Ying, dean of the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health at the National University of Singapore, said on Thursday (Dec 24): This is the only way we can continue to ensure that the community as a whole is protected.
This means that instead of aiming to get 80 per cent of the population here to be vaccinated against Covid-19, we may be now looking at 90 per cent or even higher , said Prof Teo, who was speaking in a video interview with The Straits Times on its daily online talk show The Big Story.
According to his lawyer, Yusuke Iseya used marijuana for easing stress and pressure. Photo: Iseya Yusuke/Instagram
Japanese actor Yusuke Iseya has been sentenced to one year in jail, with the sentence suspended for three years, on Tuesday (Dec 22) for illegal drug possession.
Iseya, 44, was arrested by the Japanese police in September after he was found with four packs of cannabis weighing a total of 13.17g at his home in Tokyo.
The actor had pleaded guilty to his charge during his trial in early December. His lawyers said he used the drug to relieve stress and had been using it more frequently as he had been spending more time at home due to the coronavirus pandemic,
JAKARTA (The Straits Times/ANN): With its own phase three clinical trial of a Covid-19 vaccine candidate in limbo, Indonesia said it has asked for data from Brazil, where a similar trial is progressing smoothly.
It expects to receive the safety and efficacy data on Chinese firm Sinovac Biotech s CoronaVac by Dec 28, and hopes to finally start rolling out its vaccination programme in January.
The phase three clinical trial is the final stage that a vaccine candidate must clear before it is given the go-ahead for use by the regulatory agency in a corresponding country.
BPOM, the Indonesian equivalent to US Food and Drug Administration, has requested the data through its Foreign Affairs Ministry, which then communicated with Brazil s National Health Surveillance Agency and Sinovac, said a government official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.