COVID

This is the second day in a row that Covid-19 cases in hospitals here have been lower than 1000 since Feb 4. . Read more at straitstimes.com.

A ratio of more than one indicates that the number of new weekly Covid-19 cases is increasing. The Republic crossed the one million mark for the total number of Covid-19 cases last Saturday. The week-on-week infection ratio refers to the ratio of community cases in the past week compared with the week before.

Daily new Covid-19 infections reported in Singapore fell on Thursday (Mar 24) to 8478 cases, down from the 8940 reported on Wednesday.

Moderna announced Wednesday that it plans to submit an application to the Food and Drug Administration for emergency use of its COVID-19 vaccine in children ...

Most side effects in younger children were mild or moderate and more frequent after the second dose. They are still waiting as much of the country drops COVID-19 mitigation measures. The company said the side-effect profile of its vaccine was favorable and was similar to what is seen in older children, adolescents, and adults. Moderna announced Wednesday that it plans to submit an application to the Food and Drug Administration for emergency use of its COVID-19 vaccine in children 6 months to under 6 years of age. The company also released interim results from two phase 2/3 clinical trials — in children 6 months to under 2 years and in children 2 years to under 6 years. - Moderna plans to submit an application to the Food and Drug Administration for emergency use of its COVID-19 vaccine in younger children.

Vaccine effectiveness against hospitalisation for people aged over 65, 15 weeks after a booster, was 85 per cent. . Read more at straitstimes.com.

The UK is administering fourth doses to vulnerable age groups, joining a number of other countries including Israel as the world fights the more infectious Omicron variant of the coronavirus. For people aged 18-64, vaccine effectiveness against hospitalisation appears to show a steeper drop - to 67 per cent after 15 weeks, compared with 88 per cent two weeks after the dose. Vaccine effectiveness against hospitalisation for people aged over 65, 15 weeks after a booster, was 85 per cent, down from 91 per cent two weeks after getting the third dose, the latest vaccine surveillance report from the agency estimated.

Australia will roll out a fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccines to its most vulnerable population starting next month, authorities said on Friday, as the country ...

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Several European countries - inluding France, Germany and Italy - are witnessing a spike in Covid cases. | World News.

New Delhi Pakistan was plunged into a constitutional crisis on Sunday as Prime Minister Imran Khan called early elections after the deputy speaker of parliament blocked a no-confidence motion against him on the grounds that it was unconstitutional. A booster dose of vaccine continues to provide robust protection against hospitalisation for older people nearly four months after getting the third dose, new data from the UK's Health Security Agency on Thursday showed, Reuters repored. “I think there’s an 80 per cent chance that the variants that we’re going to see in the future are manageable from a severity standpoint and vaccine production. 1. With 2,96,498 fresh Covid cases, the overall tally in Germany rose to 1,98,93,028. Crisis-hit Sri Lanka's cabinet resigned en masse from their positions at a late-night meeting Sunday, the education minister said, as anti-government protests escalated despite curfews. There is a 20 per cent chance that new Covid variants may be more dangerous that the ones already known, Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel said in an interview on Thursday amid a fresh surge in many countries in the world.