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Only 7,121 residents in Bangkok have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19 since the Thai government rolled out its immunisation campaign in late-February, according to a report from Nation Thailand. Bangkok has more than 10 million residents. To reach herd immunity against Covid-19, 70% of the population needs to be vaccinated. More than 100,000 doses of the Covid-19 vaccine have been administered, but most people have only been injected with the first dose of either the Sinovac or AstraZeneca jab. Both require 2 doses to be effective. AstraZeneca is said to have a 4 to up to 12 week interval between jabs while the second dose of Sinovac is taken 2 to 4 weeks after the first shot. In Bangkok, those included in the first phase of inoculations are residents who are at high risk of infection, are over 60 years old or work in the healthcare field. In Phuket and Koh Samui, vaccines are being distributed to the general population in an effort to reach herd immunity by July and reopen ... » Learn More about Around 7,000 people in Bangkok have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19

SINGAPORE - Malay/Muslim Singaporeans have acted in a responsible way during the Covid-19 outbreak this year and helped keep the virus from spreading further, said Minister-in-charge of Muslim Affairs Masagos Zulkifli last Friday (Dec 18). Mr Masagos, who is also the Minister for Social and Family Development, highlighted how the community not only stepped up to help each other but also played their part in curbing the spread of the virus in Singapore. During an interview with Malay/Muslim leaders on Dec 18, the minister held up the adjustments that the community made to its way of life to prevent the coronavirus situation from worsening here. These include accepting the closure of mosques, the suspension of congregational prayers, the postponement of the Haj pilgrimage, and the inability to visit loved ones during Hari Raya celebrations in the middle of the year. At the same time, Malay/Muslim Singaporeans worked to help those among them who were most in need. Mr Masagos ... » Learn More about Malay/Muslim Singaporeans have acted responsibly during Covid-19 outbreak: Masagos

More than 20 tourist souvenir shops in Singapore, several of which have been in operation for decades, have closed for good - casualties of Covid-19 travel restrictions here and around the world. With no end to the pandemic in sight, other shops are seeing this as their inevitable end as well in the months to come, The Sunday Times has found. On bad days, some gift stores in popular tourist spots such as Chinatown and Bugis Street do not see even a single customer. Mr Joe Chen, founder of the Singapore Souvenir Centre, one of the bigger players with 10 outlets under different brands, said there could well be a situation where tourism speciality shops all but disappear when travel eventually resumes. "It would be a pity. After all, we too help to market Singapore to tourists," noted Mr Chen, 29, who believes that 90 per cent of souvenir shops will fold within the next six months if more help does not come in soon. The pandemic has decimated the tourism industry, with air ... » Learn More about Over 20 tourist souvenir shops in Singapore shut, more to follow amid Covid-19 travel restrictions

After the recent outbreak of Covid-19 across Thailand, in a large part due to entertainment activities, Thailand’s former capital city of Ayutthaya has now officially cancelled all Songkran festival activities for the upcoming holiday. All events previously planned to mark the Thai New Year’s holiday between April 13 and 15 have now been called off. An urgent declaration by the provincial governor today informed the public of the decision. Many people across the country are cancelling Songkran events or any observance of the holiday at all. The decision by the province’s Songkran committee and the Tourism Authority of Thailand’s Ayutthaya office was directed especially at tourists who may be planning to travel to the area for traditional festivities. Complex and ornate events had been planned, scheduled to be held on Si Sanphet road, with the sudden cancellation announcement abruptly ending the preparations for holiday merriment. TAT and the local government agreed that the ... » Learn More about Songkran activities cancelled in Ayutthaya due to Covid-19

JERUSALEM: The coronavirus variant discovered in South Africa can "break through" Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine to some extent, a real-world data study in Israel found, though its prevalence in the country is low and the research has not been peer reviewed. The study, released on Saturday (Apr 10), compared almost 400 people who had tested positive for COVID-19, 14 days or more after they received one or two doses of the vaccine, against the same number of unvaccinated patients with the disease. It matched age and gender, among other characteristics. The South African variant, B1351, was found to make up about 1 per cent of all the COVID-19 cases across all the people studied, according to the study by Tel Aviv University and Israel's largest healthcare provider, Clalit. But among patients who had received two doses of the vaccine, the variant's prevalence rate was eight times higher than those unvaccinated - 5.4 per cent versus 0.7 per cent. COMMENTARY: Those new ... » Learn More about South African COVID-19 variant can ‘break through’ Pfizer vaccine: Israel study

PARIS: France will lengthen the period between the first and second shots of mRNA anti-COVID-19 vaccines to six weeks from four weeks as of Apr 14 to accelerate the inoculation campaign, Health Minister Olivier Veran told the JDD newspaper on Sunday (Apr 11). Although France's top health authority advised a six-week period between the two shots in January in order to stretch supplies, the government at the time said there was insufficient data on how well the vaccines performed with a longer interval. France could safely do so now because it was vaccinating a younger age group, Veran said. "(It) will allow us to vaccinate more quickly without reducing protection," the minister told the paper. France has approved use of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna mRNA vaccines. Veran also said that from Monday the AstraZeneca vaccine would be made available to all over-55s and not just those with serious pre-existing conditions. READ: COVID-19 lockdowns around the world as vaccine ... » Learn More about France extends gap between mRNA COVID-19 vaccine shots to ramp-up rollout

PARIS: France reported a further increase in the number of COVID-19 patients in intensive care on Saturday (Apr 10) and the country’s death toll from the epidemic also kept rising. Data showed there were 5,769 COVID-19 patients in intensive care, compared with 5,757 on Friday. Over the past 24 hours, 227 people died of the disease in hospitals, taking to 72,450 the number of people who have died of coronavirus in hospitals. BOOKMARK THIS: Our comprehensive coverage of the coronavirus outbreak and its developments Download our app or subscribe to our Telegram channel for the latest updates on the coronavirus outbreak: https://cna.asia/telegram ... » Learn More about French COVID-19 intensive care cases and deaths keep rising

SINGAPORE: Mario Draghi, the Prime Minister of Italy, recently blocked the export of 250,000 AstraZeneca vaccine doses from his country to Australia. To many in the international community, this was an act of “vaccine nationalism”. In fact, Mr Draghi’s decision reflected different variants of nationalistic behaviour, spurred on by geopolitical forces and compounded by COVID-19. At the outbreak of the pandemic in early 2020, for example, China, the US, the EU, India and the UK all imposed export restrictions on personal protective equipment (PPE). Shipments of ventilators and antiseptic chemicals were also blocked as national health services competed for scarce supplies. This behaviour contradicted the norms of international commerce, science and social exchange, which, for decades, have benefitted from a highly interconnected and interdependent global system. Worse, vaccine nationalism may be the precursor to “vaccine diplomacy,” a form of realpolitik that compels nations ... » Learn More about Commentary: How COVID-19 vaccines are being weaponised as countries jostle for influence

China is exploring the option of mixing different Covid-19 vaccines as a solution to the relatively low efficacy of its existing jabs, the head of the country’s Centre for Disease Control and Prevention has said. Gao Fu told a conference in Chengdu on Saturday that the country was examining two routes “to solve the problem that the efficacy of its existing vaccines is not high”. One option is to adjust the dosage, the interval between doses or increase the number of doses. The second route is to mix vaccines that use different technologies. At present China does not recommend mixing different vaccines. Health experts generally agree that the mixing different Covid-19 vaccines should be safe, and clinical trials are being held in Britain and other countries to see if that would yield better protection. Gao also said China was considering when to reopen its borders, and whether to keep measures such as mandatory mask wearing and testing in place after that. It is also ... » Learn More about China considers mixing Covid-19 vaccines to offer more protection

A staff member at Mor Chit bus terminal checks the body temperature of a girl on Friday as people started going to their home provinces for the Songkran holiday. (Photo by Pattarapong Chatpattarasill) One new Covid-19 death and 789 new cases, 781 of them local, were reported on Saturday, as authorities prepared to make as many as 10,000 field-hospital beds available in Bangkok. The latest figures bring the nationwide total to 97 deaths and 31,658 cases since the pandemic began last year. Opas Karnkawinpong, director-general of the Disease Control Department, said a 60-year-old Thai man in Nakhon Pathom with diabetes and high blood pressure had died. On Feb 7, he had a cough and sore throat. He sought treatment at a hospital on Feb 11 after having a fever and shortness of breath. By March 19, his condition had improved and he was removed from a ventilator. But two days later he became exhausted and had phlegm. Doctors found he was infected and was resistant to drugs. On April ... » Learn More about One new Covid-19 death, 789 new cases