SINGAPORE - A 95-year-old woman is among the first residents to receive their Covid-19 shots as nursing homes here start their vaccination programme.
She received her first dose of the vaccine this week, as her nursing home, LC Nursing Home, is one of six homes which have started inoculating residents against the Covid-19 virus.
The home said the resident is in good condition and has not suffered any adverse effects.
Said LC Nursing Home s director Tony Chia: If our 95-year-old resident can be injected, it goes to show that the public doesn t have to worry about receiving the vaccination.
All six nursing homes received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for their residents, and the Agency for Integrated Care (AIC) said they can choose to conduct their own vaccination exercises with trained nursing staff or opt for a mobile vaccination team to administer the vaccines to residents.
The Ministry of Health (MOH) has confirmed 10 new cases of Covid-19 on Saturday (Jan. 23).
All of the cases are imported, and they had been placed on Stay-Home Notice (SHN) or isolated upon arrival in Singapore.
This brings the total number of cases reported in Singapore to 59,260.
10 imported cases
Two (Cases 59540 and 59541) are Singaporeans who returned from India.
One (Case 59537) is a Work Pass holder who arrived from India.
Five (Cases 59542, 59543, 59545, 59547 and 59548) are Work Permit holders who arrived from Indonesia and Myanmar, all of whom are foreign domestic workers.
Two (Cases 59538 and 59539) are Short-Term Visit Pass holders. Case 59538 arrived from the US to visit his Singaporean fiancée and Case 59539 arrived from Ecuador for a work project in Singapore.
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89 arrested in islandwide drug bust including 16-year-old girl
Packets of heroin and Ice recovered during a CNB operation on Jan 13, 2021. (Photo: Central Narcotics Bureau)
15 Jan 2021 05:18PM (Updated:
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SINGAPORE: A total of 89 people were arrested in an islandwide drug bust from Jan 11 to Jan 15, the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) said on Friday (Jan 15).
The youngest person arrested was a 16-year-old girl, a suspected drug abuser.
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Officers seized about 680g of heroin, 113g of Ice, 25g of cannabis and 109g of new psychoactive substances. The haul also included eight Ecstasy tablets, 11 Erimin-5 tablets and two bottles of methadone.
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A diverse group of more than 100 people - students, retirees, housewives and professionals from fields such as law and technology - is helping children from lower-income families in Chai Chee.
The volunteers are part of KidzCare@Kembangan-Chai Chee, an initiative under the Kembangan Chai Chee Youth Network.
It was founded seven years ago by two friends - Mr Jarel Tang, 25, a management consultant, and Mr Fung Chun Chang, 28, a business development manager at an artificial intelligence start-up.
Mr Tang said: Not every child may have the same starting point in terms of family resources. Our hope is that we can provide the children with some additional support so that every child has the opportunities to succeed in life, and along the way, provide their families with a better future as well.