The Hong Kong government has announced that people will be required to register their identity when buying pay-as-you-go mobile phone SIM cards from March 2022, saying a month-long consultation showed the requirement had “strong” public backing.
India’s Deaths Top 300,000, Singapore’s Fast Tests: Virus Update
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Asia sped up actions to tackle the resurgence of the coronavirus in the region with plans to vaccinate more people, faster testing and further restrictions imposed. Singapore has approved a Covid breath test that gives results within a minute, while Japan has opened large-scale vaccination centers in Tokyo and Osaka and Malaysia is rolling out new curbs.
The spread of Covid-19 in the U.S. continues to slow, with the country ending its first week since June with no days of infections exceeding 30,000, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University and Bloomberg.
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