posted November 20, 2021 at 05:01 pm by Manila Standard Business For the second consecutive year, Microsoft Philippines was recognized by HR Asia as one of the ‘Best Companies to Work for in Asia 2021’. The organization received this distinction for it…
2021-11-20
Singapore will from Monday ease strict Covid-19 restrictions that were reimposed in September after its biggest outbreak of the Delta variant, though officials emphasised further reopening would be done in an incremental manner. With over 85 per cent o…
2021-11-20
Coronavirus: Week of Nov. 14 to Nov. 20, Hong Kong authorizes Sinovac vaccine for children aged 3-17
Nikkei Asia is tracking the spread of the coronavirus that was first detected in the central Chinese city of Wuhan.
Cumulative global cases have reached 256,121,417 according to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. The worldwide death toll has hit 5,…
2021-11-20
BEIJING, Nov 20 (Reuters) – China had given 76.3% of its population complete COVID-19 vaccine doses by Nov. 19, Wu Liangyou, an official at the National Health Commission (NHC) said on Saturday.
A total of 1.076 billion people in the country have…
2021-11-20
BEIJING, Nov 20 (Reuters) – China had given 76.3% of its population complete COVID-19 vaccine doses by Nov. 19, Wu Liangyou, an official at the National Health Commission (NHC) said on Saturday.
A total of 1.076 billion people in the country have…
2021-11-20
FILE PHOTO: A nurse holds a syringe containing a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine made by the Beijing Institute of Biological Products, a unit of Sinopharm subsidiary China National Biotec Group (CNBG), at a vaccination center during a government…
2021-11-20
BEIJING: China had given 76.3% of its population complete Covid-19 vaccine doses by Nov. 19, Wu Liangyou, an official at the National Health Commission (NHC) said on Saturday.
A total of 1.076 billion people in the country have received the required nu…
2021-11-20
China has given 76.3% of population complete COVID-19 vaccine doses
BEIJING (Reuters) – China had given 76.3% of its population complete COVID-19 vaccine doses by Nov. 19, Wu Liangyou, an official at the National Health Commission (NHC) said on S…
2021-11-20
Pupils get inoculated with the COVID-19 vaccines at Weiming elementary school in Weiming Village, Shinan Township, Xingye County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Nov. 18, 2021. Local health authorities of Xingye County in Guangxi …
2021-11-20
South Asia, home to 1.97 billion people (25% of the world’s population), is no stranger to conflict and confrontation. Longstanding border disputes (such as
South Asia's history of conflict and vast inequities meant the region was a sitting duck …
2021-11-20
A staff member displays samples of the COVID-19 inactivated vaccine at Sinovac Biotech Ltd, in Beijing, March 16, 2020. [Photo/Xinhua] HONG KONG – The Secretary for Food and Health (SFH) of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) gove…
2021-11-20
China had given 76.3% of its population complete Covid-19 vaccine doses by Nov. 19, Wu Liangyou, an official at the National Health Commission (NHC) said on Saturday. A total of 1.076 billion people in the country have received the required number of d…
2021-11-20
HONG KONG, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) — The Secretary for Food and Health (SFH) of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government has approved extending the age eligibility of China's Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine to cover those aged three…
2021-11-20
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BEIJING (XINHUA, REUTERS) – The latest Covid-19 resurgence in China has entered its final stage, a health official said Saturday (Nov 20).
So far, eight of the provincial-level regions affected b…
2021-11-20
BEIJING (XINHUA, REUTERS) – The latest Covid-19 resurgence in China has entered its final stage, a health official said on Saturday (Nov 20).
So far, eight of the provincial-level regions affected by the latest resurgence have registered no new locally…
2021-11-20
HONG KONG, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) — The Secretary for Food and Health (SFH) of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government has approved extending the age eligibility of China's Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine to cover those aged three…
2021-11-20
Several thousand people took to Australia’s streets on Saturday protesting Covid-19 vaccination mandates, while smaller crowds gathered to support the measures that have elevated the country to be one of the most inoculated in the world. Nearly 85 per …
2021-11-20
HONG KONG (BLOOMBERG) – Hong Kong approved lowering the age of eligibility for the Covid-19 vaccine from China’s Sinovac Biotech to three years old, down from 18 years old.
The city’s Secretary for Food and Health said adolescents from 12-to-17 years w…
2021-11-20
According to a new study published in the journal Science, the first Covid-19 case — or ‘patient zero’ — was a female seafood vendor at an animal market in Wuhan, China, who became symptomatic on December 11, 2019. According to earlier reports, the fir…
2021-11-20
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Analysis results showed that the first patient of the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19) was a street vendor working at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, China.
This is a conclusion that overturns the World Health …
2021-11-20
The United States and Taiwan next week will hold a second session of an economic dialogue launched last year in the face of increasing pressure on the island from China, the State Department said on Friday. The announcement comes days after a virtual m…