Covid-19

Commission's appeal against COVID vaccine contract disclosures should be dismissed, court adviser says

FILE PHOTO: The word \"COVID-19\" is reflected in a drop on a syringe needle in this illustration taken November 9, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo

Is the US prepared for the next pandemic? How Trump’s policies have weakened defences

Red Cross workers wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) carry the coffin of a man who died of Ebola virus before his burial in Bunia, Ituri province, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, on June 10, 2026.

A ‘miraculous transformation’: How Kim Jong Un fortified North Korea

Kim Jong Un is recognised at home and abroad as North Korea’s most powerful leader to date because he has achieved the status of a de facto nuclear power.

Covid-19 pandemic left 55,000 cancer cases undiagnosed across 7 nations, study finds

An estimated 16 per cent of expected cancer diagnoses across Australia, Canada, Denmark, Ireland, New Zealand, Norway and Britain were missing between April and December 2020.

European Medicines Agency recommends that next season’s Covid-19 vaccines target XFG variant

Covid-19 vaccines still help prevent severe disease and death, but updating shots to better match circulating variants can improve protection as the virus changes.

Not true that current Covid-19 situation is more dangerous: CDA, experts

Message about Covid being circulated in Singapore. Photo taken on May 29, 2026.

Thailand urges calm over S’pore’s Covid-19 spike; no severe outbreak from dominant NB.1.8.1 strain

Covid-19 in Thailand is now treated as an endemic or seasonal communicable disease.

askST: Are 12,700 Covid-19 cases in a week cause for concern?

The Communicable Diseases Agency said current Covid-19 vaccines are still effective against the NB.1.8.1 variant, which is the main variant now circulating in Singapore.

Covid-19 cases in Singapore rise to 12,700; CDA monitoring increase in infections

The number of Covid-19 cases rose to 12,700 in the week of May 10 to 16.

Viral load: Hantavirus may linger in semen for 6 years and be transmitted via sex, study finds

Researchers at Switzerland’s Spiez Laboratory say a deadly strain of the hantavirus can survive in the body’s “biological safe harbours” like the testes.

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