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Citing Imperial College modelling data, Public health expert Associate Professor Natasha Howard said that the risk of reinfection with the Omicron variant is more than five times higher and it does ... ( read original story ...)

Ticket sales for Singapore’s Vaccinated Travel Lane (VTL) program have been put on hold for all flights until January 21st. Ticket sales for flights on and after this date have also been reduced. The ... ( read original story ...)

A 24-year-old man was charged on Friday (Dec 24) with being involved in the slashing of another man with a knife along Buangkok Crescent at about 4am on Wednesday.  Dainsh Subramaniam is accused of ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: Singapore's manufacturing output continued to rise in November, although the pace of growth slowed to 14.6 per cent year-on-year, official data on Friday (Dec 24) showed. In Octob ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore has set up these lanes for about two dozen countries, including Australia, India, the United Kingdom and the United States. Reacting to the new rules, Indian carriers said that they will ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE - Singapore's factory output expanded for a second straight month in November with sustained growth in all production segments. . Read more at straitstimes.com. ( read original story ...)

"2022 must be the year we end the pandemic," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters in Geneva on Monday.But Singapore-based experts said much depends on how potent the Omicron ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore froze the sale of tickets for arriving flights and buses under its quarantine-free travel programme for four weeks from Thursday. ( read original story ...)

Singapore central bank said on Friday its $60 billion swap arrangement with the U.S. Federal Reserve will expire on Dec. 31, as U.S. dollar funding conditions in Singapore and the region have ... ( read original story ...)

Find yourself with a positive Covid-19 test? You’d better have your toothbrush packed, along with more patience than you’d ever expect. ( read original story ...)

CNA Lifestyle met up with with three musicians and a circus artist to find out why they chose performing on streets instead of stages, and what they look forward to once restrictions are lifted. ( read original story ...)

Fifty-three of the 65 confirmed imported Omicron cases detected in Singapore as at Monday had arrived via the vaccinated travel lane (VTL), said the Ministry of Health (MOH). . Read more at ... ( read original story ...)

The figure is the highest reported in a day since the start of the pandemic here, overtaking the previous high of 76 such cases a day before.. ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: Singapore reported 322 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday (Dec 23), of which 89 are imported, setting a record high for the second day in a row. There are also two fatalities, taking the ... ( read original story ...)

In April this year, Bloomberg declared Singapore “ the world’s best place to be during Covid ”. That didn’t last. A scant six months later, the Republic’s ranking had plummeted to 39th, its lowest yet ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore reported 335 new cases of Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the total tally in the country to 276,720. Of the new cases, 245 were in the community, 14 were in migrant worker ... ( read original story ...)