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Taiwan and Singapore, Covid Success Stories, Face Threats Bloomberg 1 hr ago (Bloomberg) -- Singapore and Taiwan, success stories in containing Covid-19, are both rapidly imposing aggressive restrictions at home -- and tightening travel between each other. In Taiwan, authorities encouraged people to stay at home this weekend after a record 180 new local cases were reported Saturday. Indoor family and social gatherings in Taipei will be limited to five people, while outdoor ones will be restricted to 10. © Bloomberg Taiwan Tightens Virus Restrictions After Surge in Local Cases A Covid-19...

Of the community cases announced on Sunday (May 16 2021), 18 are currently unlinked. - The Straits Times/ANN SINGAPORE, May 16 (Reuters): Singapore's health ministry on Sunday preliminarily confirmed 38 locally transmitted Covid-19 cases, the highest daily number since mid-September, as the city-state returned to the strictest curbs on gatherings since a coronavirus lockdown last year. Singapore has reported more than 61,000 virus cases, with the bulk linked to outbreaks in foreign worker dormitories, and 31 deaths. While none of Sunday's new cases are in the dormitories, they...

Medical officers arriving for work at the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Hanoi. Vietnam will receive 31 million vaccine doses made by Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE this year, the country’s health ministry said on its website.- Vietnam News/ANN HANOI, May 16 (Bloomberg): Vietnam will receive 31 million vaccine doses made by Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE this year, the country’s health ministry said on its website. The health ministry also registered to buy about 10 million additional doses through Covax, a program backed by WHO and other global health groups, the mi...

Germany’s contagion rate fell further below a key threshold on Saturday, making it more likely that pandemic restrictions will ease in coming days as a third wave of the coronavirus recedes.

U.S. Cases Slip; Disney World Eases Mask Rules: Virus Update Bloomberg 1 hr ago (Bloomberg) -- Average weekly cases fell or were even in all U.S. states and territories except Wyoming, according to the latest data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. U.S. businesses from Walt Disney Co.’s theme park in Florida to Walmart Inc. have loosened their mask requirements following new guidance from the CDC on Thursday. Covid has killed more than 1,000 bank employees in India, which has declared banking services essential even as the variant known as B.1.617 ravages the count...