All posts tagged "Covid-19"
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0ASEAN NewsA Tale of Two Countries: Different Journeys, Same Destination
Neighbouring countries Malaysia and Singapore have had wildly divergent experiences with the Covid-19 pandemic, and have reacted in ways almost as different....
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0Health3 New Things We’ve Learned About the Covid Vaccines
For some countries, September 2021 marked a turning point in the coronavirus pandemic. The month also brought along some interesting new information...
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0ASEAN NewsSingapore Appears Increasingly Confused in Its Covid Approach
Singaporeans, long accustomed to decisive, orderly government, have been lashing out on social media at the apparent dithering and reversals by officials...
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0HealthJust How Accurate Are Those Covid Self-Test Kits?
They’re good enough to get the job done, but the full answer is a bit more complicated than you might think. With...
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0ASEAN NewsAs Malaysia and Singapore Discuss Opening Border, a Clear Data Reporting Gap Emerges
The difference in the way information is reported in the two countries — and the depth and quality of that information —...
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0Travel News & Updates[Updated] Destination Langkawi: Here’s What You Need to Know
Malaysia’s first attempt at a domestic tourism travel bubble begins on Malaysia Day, September 16, with the popular vacation island of Langkawi....
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0Local NewsCovid Realities: Look Beyond the Numbers
For better or worse, many people methodically follow Malaysia’s daily Covid numbers, but a deeper dive into the data reveals that not...
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0NewsMalaysia Falls to the Bottom of Bloomberg’s International Covid Ranking
Following months of plunging rankings, Malaysia finally sinks all the way to dead-last place in Bloomberg’s monthly Covid Resilience Ranking. The Covid...
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0HealthUS Study Shows mRNA Vaccines Still Effective Against Delta Variant
The vaccines’ effectiveness against overall infection drops to 66%, but protection against serious illness and death remains very high. The extremely transmissible...
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0NewsUnited States FDA Grants Full Approval to Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 Vaccine
The move is expected to lend considerable authority to vaccine mandates in the US; other countries may soon follow suit. Eight months...
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0Local NewsWhy Aren’t Malaysia’s Covid Numbers Improving?
Despite the success of the ongoing effort to get large numbers of the population immunised, Malaysia’s Covid metrics all remain stubbornly high....
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0HealthIt’s Time to Start Including Kids in Vaccination Stats… and Likely in Vaccination Drives, Too
When calculating vaccine statistics, growing evidence suggests we shouldn’t only count adults – children are part of the population, too, and Covid...
