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Governments that say another lockdown or restriction to contain Covid-19 will never – ever – happen again were either naive or arrogant. Omicron is sweeping through Europe while the United States could see 1 million daily cases. Even China, despite its “Zero-Covid” policy, has recorded new imported cases of the Coronavirus variant, putting pressure on […]
... written on Dec 20 2021Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin is pushing very hard to amend the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases Act (Act 342). Even PM Ismail Sabri has used his power to extend the current Dewan Rakyat (Lower House) sitting for another day just to allow the controversial amendments to be debated. In fact, the government is so […]
... written on Dec 16 2021Stories of people given more than 1 dose of Covid-19 vaccine were aplenty. For example, a nurse in Italy mistakenly administered 6 doses of Pfizer Coronavirus vaccine to a 23-year-old Italian woman in May this year. Apparently, the nurse was said to have suffered something called an “attention lapse” – a distraction due to an […]
... written on Dec 12 2021Omicron, the latest variant of Covid-19 has now spread to 57 countries, according to the WHO (World Health Organization). For now, however, Delta is still the dominant variant, particularly in the U.S. and Europe. But the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control has predicted that the Omicron could become the dominant variant in Europe […]
... written on Dec 09 2021From Malaysia to the United States and from Australia to India, more countries have reported their first cases of the latest Coronavirus variant – Omicron. However, chances are the variant has already spread domestically by the time those countries announced the first case. For example, New York City reported 5 cases just hours after infections […]
... written on Dec 03 2021When Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel told the Financial Times that existing Covid-19 vaccines will be much less effective at tackling Omicron than earlier strains, including Delta, all hell breaks loose again. To make matters worse, Bancel also said it could take months to develop and ship a new vaccine that specifically targets the Omicron variant. The […]
... written on Nov 30 2021Scientists in South Africa have expressed concern after identified a new Coronavirus variant that could trigger fourth wave around the world. The variant – B.1.1.529 – has rapidly spread in Gauteng, the country’s most populated province of 15 million people. Even though 100 confirmed cases had been detected so far, scientists estimate the new variant […]
... written on Nov 26 2021After 2 years of development, the state-controlled AVIC Aerodynamics Research Institute, said a new wind tunnel capable of replicating the speeds and high temperatures faced by hypersonic missiles is ready. It was designed to simulate speeds from Mach 4 to 8 under a total temperature of 900 Kelvin (626.85 C) at a simulated flight altitude of […]
... written on Nov 23 2021Coronavirus cases are declining everywhere – except Europe. The WHO (World Health Organization) reported last week that Covid-19 death jumped by 10% in Europe, making it the only place on the planet where infections and deaths are steadily increasing. In fact, it has been the sixth consecutive week that Covid has risen in the continent. […]
... written on Nov 15 2021Britain rolled out its vaccination program much earlier than other countries in the Europe. Yet, Covid-19 infections in the country have been rising in recent weeks, so much so it hit more than 50,000 cases on Thursday (Oct 21). Something is terribly wrong in the U.K. as it was only on July 19 that Britons […]
... written on Oct 24 2021
