Health

PETALING JAYA: For all districts in Selangor and Kuala Lumpur, the conditional movement control order (CMCO) will be extended until January 14 next year, Senior Security Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob said. Ismail said this, speaking at a press conference, was due to the high number of active cases in the affected regions.Except in the districts of Sabak Bernam, Hulu Selangor …

In spite of the absence of regulatory approval and despite an earlier declaration that medical frontliners are the top priority for vaccination, health workers and advocates slammed the early COVID-19 vaccination granted to the safety detail of President Rodrigo Duterte and Cabinet members. But here’s the thing, no vaccine was approved by the Food and Drug Administration which is needed …

Who would imagine this new rapid test that will soon be launched by Indonesia, which can analyze breath samples and detect infection with Covid-19 within a few minutes will set its plan soon. The test is organized to use the GeNose C19 breathalyser developed by researchers at Gadjah Mada University. In view of this, Professor Kuwat Triyana, who heads the …

KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysia advises individuals who have tested positive for coronavirus but do not have symptoms of Covid-19 to first self-isolate at home, as cases involving foreign employees are on the rise. These patients who are asymptomatic should keep in touch with their health offices in the area.Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah, Director-General of the Health Ministry, said that these …

There’s an interesting point from a private Thai hospital that was told to stop promoting Covid-19 vaccines for sale in advance on the grounds that there is no vaccine licensed in Thailand yet. In view of this, Vibhavadi Hospital told the nation that the result of a misunderstanding was its online bid for 1,000 initial reservations for the two-dose Moderna …

Indonesia has sought a report from Brazil, where a similar study is going smoothly in terms of the sluggish advancement of its own Phase 3 clinical trial of a COVID-19 vaccine candidate. They are looking forward to collect safety and efficacy data by the end of this month on the Chinese company which is Sinovac Biotech’s CoronaVac, and hoping to …

KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysia is in negotiations to buy 6.4 million doses of Russia’s Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine and is seeking to boost its imports from U.S. drugmaker Pfizer-BioNTech as the country is looking to boost its pandemic arsenal.Around $500 million is being invested by the Southeast Asian nation to purchase enough vaccines to inoculate 26.5 million residents, or 82.8 …

Surprisingly, hundreds of businesses have expressed support for British drugmaker AstraZeneca to acquire the second batch of COVID-19 vaccines from the private sector. Joey Concepcion the presidential business advisor and founder of Go Negosyo shared in a statement that there was an impressive turnout for the purchasing of a second batch of COVID-19 vaccines, as more than 200 corporations showed …

The intense work for coronavirus shots continues as the country’s vaccine czar maintained that amid some delays in talks with manufacturers the government is still on track with its vaccine’s search. Amid updates that Health Secretary Francisco Duque III dropped the ball in negotiations with US drugmaker Pfizer by failing to sign a single text here’s Carlito Galvez Jr., who …

Through the nation’s anticipation of the vaccine, Speaker Lord Allan Velasco has announced that the accredited media covering the House of Representatives and their families will be first in line in the chamber’s coronavirus vaccination campaign once the shots become available for mass use in the country. For this reason, The House is setting aside P50 million from its internal …