The National Health Commission (NHC) has dispatched a working group to guide the Covid-19 prevention and control efforts in northeast China's Liaoning Province, the NHC said on Sunday.
Of the community cases announced on Sunday (May 16 2021), 18 are currently unlinked. - The Straits Times/ANN SINGAPORE, May 16 (Reuters): Singapore s health ministry on Sunday preliminarily confirmed 38 locally transmitted Covid-19 cases, the highest daily number since mid-September, as the city-state returned to the strictest curbs on gatherings since a coronavirus lockdown last year.
Singapore has reported more than 61,000 virus cases, with the bulk linked to outbreaks in foreign worker dormitories, and 31 deaths. While none of Sunday s new cases are in the dormitories, they are the highest number of local infections outside of the dormitories in a year.
The Asian trade and financial hub of 5.7 million people had until recently been reporting almost zero or single-digit daily infections locally for months.
Medical officers arriving for work at the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Hanoi. Vietnam will receive 31 million vaccine doses made by Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE this year, the country’s health ministry said on its website.- Vietnam News/ANN HANOI, May 16 (Bloomberg): Vietnam will receive 31 million vaccine doses made by Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE this year, the country’s health ministry said on its website.
The health ministry also registered to buy about 10 million additional doses through Covax, a program backed by WHO and other global health groups, the ministry said. In all, the government so far has wrapped up deals to acquire about 110 million vaccine doses. The ministry did not specify how Vietnam will acquire the Pfizer doses.
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