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Aker Solutions manager charged in Malaysia over alleged false documentation
KUALA LUMPUR: A Malaysian manager of Norway’s largest oil services provider Aker Solutions was charged on Friday over allegations he submitted false documents in dealings with state-owned energy firm Petronas, according to a court charge-sheet. Ahmad Hatta Kamaruzzaman, 49, pleaded not
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S. African woman gives birth to 10 babies
JOHANNESBURG: A South African woman gave birth to 10 babies at a local hospital on Monday night, reported Xinhua, quoting her family and the local government on Wednesday. “We received a call from the hospital informing us of the birth …
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A 23-year-old Italian woman received 6 times the recommended amount of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine
A 23-year-old Italian woman received 6 times the recommended amount of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine A 23-year-old Italian woman received six doses of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine on Sunday, after a nurse at a hospital in Tuscany accidentally injected an entire vial.
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US Customs seizes Malaysia’s Top Glove shipment following forced labour finding
KUALA LUMPUR: The U.S. Customs and Border Protection has seized a shipment of 3.97 million nitrile disposable gloves from Malaysia’s Top Glove Corp Bhd estimated to be worth $518,000, on indications they were made by forced labor, it said Wednesday. CBP
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Pakistan’s COVID-19 cases cross 800,000 mark
Islamabad: As COVID-19 cases are rapidly surging in Pakistan, the country’s total cases of COVID-19 infection crossed 800,000 mark on Monday. Citing National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) data, Geo News reported that at least 70 more people have succumbed
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New U.S. COVID cases fall sharply last week, deaths lowest since October
New cases of COVID-19 in the United States fell 16% last week to about 409,000, the biggest percentage drop in weekly new cases since February, according to a Reuters analysis of state and county data. Deaths from COVID-19 fell 4%
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Fauci: Americans may still need masks to fight COVID in 2022
WASHINGTON: Americans may still need to wear masks in 2022 even as the country relaxes other restrictions to combat COVID-19, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, said on Sunday. While daily infection rates are coming down dramatically, thousands
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NASA’s Perseverance rover touches down on Mars
WASHINGTON: NASA’s Perseverance rover touched down safely on Mars on Thursday, kicking off the agency’s ninth mission on the Red Planet, reports Xinhua news agency. Cheers erupted in mission control at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory as controllers confirmed the rover,
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Hard-to-detect strain of coronavirus found in Finland – Pharmaceutical company
HELSINKI: A new strain of the coronavirus, Fin-796H, which is hard to detect by at least one type of a PCR test, has been discovered in Finland, reported Sputnik news agency, quoting the Vita Laboratories company. Several coronavirus strains have been
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UK to launch world’s first COVID-19 human challenge study
LONDON: Britain will be the first country to run a COVID-19 human challenge study, on which the country’s clinical trials ethics body has given a favourable opinion, the Imperial College London announced on Wednesday. The study, backed by a government
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