COVID 19

SINGAPORE — Six additional charges have been filed against Healing the Divide founder Iris Koh, 47, involving conspiring with general practitioner Jipson Quah, 35, to lie to the Ministry of Health (MOH) that a number of people had received...

The World Health Organization recommended on Tuesday (Jan 10) that countries consider having passengers on long-haul flights wear masks because of the swift spread of the most recent sub-variant of Covid-19, XBB.1.5 named the “Kraken” after a legendary sea...

SINGAPORE — Singaporeans are responding to Health Minister Ong Ye Kung's recent address regarding imported Covid-19 cases and how the nation is not experiencing a surge in Covid-19 cases brought in by travelers from China. In the recent address...

SINGAPORE — In a touching scene from a video shared widely on social media, a family could be seen laying out a red carpet for their grandmother, who flew in on one of the first flights from China. It shows...

SINGAPORE: The Health Minister is scheduled to deliver a ministerial statement on the county’s response to the present global COVID-19 situation on Monday (Jan 9), the next session. Several Members of Parliament have raised questions about how prepared Singapore is...

SINGAPORE — With Changi Airport seeing between 700 and 1,000 daily arrivals from China, the Ministry of Health (MOH) is now closely monitoring the hospital workload after a Singaporean traveller from China has become severely ill from Covid-19. MOH...

SINGAPORE — The world is getting ready for an influx of travellers from China, which lifted pandemic restrictions earlier this month. Singapore’s Ministry of Health, however, said on Wednesday (Dec 28) that there will be no changes to rules...

SINGAPORE — China has experienced a surge in Covid-19 infections recently after Beijing dropped most of the pandemic restrictions early in December. Most recently, an estimated 250 million people, or 18 per cent of the population, have gotten infected from...

The lifting of nearly all pandemic measures in China has sparked fears of a new coronavirus mutant variant emerging from new infections. Most recently, an estimated 250 million people, 18 per cent of the population, have gotten infected from Dec...

Singapore’s Health Minister warned of the possibility of new mutations of the virus responsible for the Covid-19 pandemic, especially in light of the easing of restrictions in China. After protests broke out in China last month, many of the strict...