Covid-19 Vaccine

Anti-vaccination holdouts in Sicily paid a nurse to give them fake Covid-19 jabs in order to obtain a health certificate that is mandatory for some professions, police said on Tuesday (Dec 21). Three people, including the nurse and a…

Indonesia started vaccinating elementary school children aged 6-11 against Covid-19 on Tuesday (Dec 14), becoming one of the few countries in Asia to start mass inoculations for young children. Vaccinations against the…

India expects the Omicron variant of coronavirus to cause less severe disease, the health ministry said on Friday (Dec 3), thanks to vaccinations and high prior exposure to the Delta variant that infected nearly 70 per cent of the…

India is reimposing Covid-19 restrictions, including a seven-day home quarantine, on 12 economies including Singapore from Wednesday (Dec 1). The move comes amid concerns over the emergence of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus that…

India issued an advisory to all states to rigorously test and screen international travellers from South Africa and other "at risk" countries amid concerns over a new coronavirus variant, after easing some of its travel restrictions…

A pandemic-spurred demand for flu vaccines in India has surged since a devastating second wave of Covid-19 brought the nation's healthcare system to its knees earlier this year. Vaccinations against influenza are not very common in India…

Indonesia has administered at least one Covid-19 vaccine dose to half its population, reaching that benchmark after nearly a year of starting the programme. More than 135.4 million people have received at least one shot, while…

Several European countries are willing to donate vaccines to Thailand, Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai said on Tuesday. Mr Don said this after one million doses of Moderna Covid-19 vaccine donated by the United States arrived in…

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced a record 56 trillion yen (S$665 billion) stimulus for the world's third-largest economy on Friday (Nov 19) as he looks to shore up the country's patchy pandemic recovery. The massive…

Denmark will re-introduce a health pass because of a sharp rise in Covid-19 infections, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Monday (Nov 8), less than two months after scrapping controls. The Epidemic Commission has recommended the…