All posts tagged "Covid-19"
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0Asia Pacific NewsBeijing Complains About Stricter Covid Travel Rules While Maintaining Its Own Border Closures
Critics have not failed to notice that despite the whinging about some countries requiring testing for arrivals from China, foreign tourists still...
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0Asia Pacific NewsCovid Catastrophe: As China’s Borders Open Amid a Huge Covid Surge, Will the World Be Imperiled?
Citing serious concerns over China’s immense surge in new cases and the lack of transparency from its central government, the world is...
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0Asia Pacific NewsCovid Cases Explode Across China
Amid growing reports of cover-ups and undercounts, leaks from China’s top health officials suggest a stunning 250 million new infections in the...
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0HealthCovid Isn’t Over: What You Need to Know about the Latest Variants
The newest Covid strains are actually subvariants of Omicron, but BA.5 and closely related BA.4 are even more highly infectious and are...
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0Asia Pacific NewsWhy Won’t China Give Up on Its ‘Zero-Covid’ Strategy?
It’s a failed approach that has virtually no chance of working in the long term, but Beijing seems to have no intention...
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0HealthMalaysia’s Covid Cases Have Dropped to a One-Year Low, but Can a Post-Holiday Surge Be Avoided?
Data amassed over the past two months have been encouraging, but Malaysia’s Ministry of Health is bracing for a likely post-Raya spike...
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0HealthCan the Right Blood Type Protect You from Covid?
It’s accepted science that people with certain blood types have a lower risk for a number of various illnesses. Some studies suggest...
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0EducationBeaconhouse Adapts to a Covid-Changed World
As the pandemic began to take hold in 2020, schools had to make significant changes at an unprecedented pace to ensure education...
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0Local NewsDust Off Those Passports! Malaysia to Reopen Borders on April 1
After over two years of closed borders, Malaysia will at long last reopen for international travel in just over three weeks’ time....
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0Has Malaysia’s Omicron Wave Peaked?
If Malaysia follows the pattern of the Omicron variant’s surge seen in other countries, the outlook is encouraging. As 2021 segued into...
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0Asia Pacific NewsAs ASEAN Opens Up, Will Malaysia Be Left Behind?
A number of Southeast Asian countries have either opened their borders or announced plans to do so. Malaysia, however, against its own...
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0Travel News & UpdatesThai-Malaysian Border to Reopen Next Month
Tourists from Malaysia will be able to enter Thailand under the “Test and Go” scheme with no quarantine upon arrival. The Thai...
