COVID-19: Living with COVID (Endemic & Opening Up)

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4 hours ago, Tkseah said:

My sis in stat board already start going back office 2 days a week liao..

By right if they allowed 50% of workers to go back office and WFH no longer default, company can ask their staff to go back office few days a week lo.

[Ody_2004]

I see the road traffic nowadays don bluff me only 50% back to work loh..

unless these people who go work all drive de and those WFH are public transport user..

Certain sector/industry no chance to WFH de.. u ask a casino dealer WFH loh.. 

[Odyssey2011]

9 hours ago, 13177 said:

By right if they allowed 50% of workers to go back office and WFH no longer default, company can ask their staff to go back office few days a week lo.

Creating extra physical (avoidable) meetings. Encourage more employees to attend. So this is the way to reduce physical gathering? so this is the way to prevent the spread of the coronavirus? 

 

Edited January 13, 2022 by Odyssey2011

[Kopites]

Letter received today 14 Jan 2022 through parent gateway. 

Let your kids be the "superhero" marvel Singapore version. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

For the sake of not overloading our healthcare, anyone with child that qualified those criterias please volunteer. 👏

Letter of Invitation (Email Blast to Parents)

Dear Parent,

The Department of Paediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore; Khoo

Teck Puat - National University Children’s Medical Institute, National University Hospital, and the Programme

in Emerging Infectious Diseases, Duke-NUS Medical School are jointly leading a large nationwide study to

evaluate children’s immune responses to COVID-19 and to the Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA vaccination.

If you have a child aged 5 to 16 years who will be eligible for COVID-19 vaccination under MOH’s guidelines,

we would like to invite your child to participate in the MARVELS (MARkers of Vaccine Efficacy and

Longevity in SARS-CoV-2) study.

The study aims to enroll a total of 460 participants over 12 months to track vaccine responses, vaccine

efficacy, monitor side effects and to detect asymptomatic COVID-19 infections in these children. Eligible

children would comprise those who are healthy and without a previous COVID-19 infection and who are

getting vaccinated against COVID-19 for the first time, those who are not vaccinated immediately; and others

who are immunocompromised and planning to be vaccinated, all with reference to a standard mRNA vaccine

dosing regimen.

The study is being conducted in the hopes of developing a comprehensive guide of recommendations for

vaccinations in children, vaccinating immunocompromised children and the effects of the natural infection of

COVID-19 in children.

Please refer to attached study poster for more details and the study team can be contacted at 8444 3156 or

[email protected] for more information.

Yours Sincerely,

Dr Elizabeth Tham

Principal Investigator & Consultant Paediatrician

Head, Allergy, Immunology & Rheumatology Division

Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore

Khoo Teck Puat-National University Children’s Medical Institute, National University Hospital

The MARkers of Vaccine Efficacy and Longevity in SARS-CoV-2 (MARVELS) study has been

approved by the Domain Specific Review Board (National Healthcare Group) Reference - 2021/00945

Edited January 14, 2022 by Kopites

[Jellandross]

Tia gong Ang Sua jin jueh pai kias.. 

 

 

[kobayashiGT]

 

51 minutes ago, Jellandross said:

Tia gong Ang Sua jin jueh pai kias.. 

 

 

Mountainous people lah. never study one. haha. whose fist bigger who win.

Queenstown better. All the people there speak Queen's English one. 🤣

[Kb27]

oh oh oh...here we go again.

 

Hundreds of thousands of Indians gather for holy dip, defying COVID-19 surge

PRAYAGRAJ, India, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of Hindu worshippers gathered on the banks of India's Ganges river on Friday for a holy bathe despite a 30-fold rise in coronavirus cases in the past month.

Hindus believe a bathe in the holy river on the Jan. 14 Makarsankranti festival washes away sins.

A large number of devotees were taking a dip in the sacred river where it flows through the eastern state of West Bengal, which is reporting the most number of cases in the country after Maharashtra state in the west.

In the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, thousands of devotees, few wearing masks, thronged the river's banks in the holy city of Prayagraj.

"I can't breathe with a mask," Ram Phal Tripathi, who came with his family from a village in Uttar Pradesh state, said after emerging from the river.

 

Hindu pilgrims gather to take a dip at the confluence of the river Ganges and the Bay of Bengal, on the occasion of "Makar Sankranti" festival at Sagar Island, amidst the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the eastern state of West Bengal, India

 

"Every year I come for a holy dip. How could I have missed it this year?"

India is again facing a surge in coronavirus cases, fuelled mostly by the highly transmissible Omicron variant, but hospitalisations are low, with most people recovering at home.

Doctors had appealed unsuccessfully to the West Bengal state high court to reverse a decision to allow the festival this year, worrying it will become a virus "super spreader" event.

Last year, a big religious gathering in northern India contributed to a record rise in coronavirus cases.

On Friday, the health ministry reported 264,202 new cases of the coronavirus in the previous 24 hours, taking India's total tally to 36.58 million.

Deaths from COVID-19 rose by 315, with total now at 485,350, the ministry said.

[Fcw75]

Last heard we still having VTL with India.

[Odyssey2011]

36 minutes ago, Fcw75 said:

Last heard we still having VTL with India.

Hong Kong airport bans transit passengers from 153 countries, including Singapore. 👏

The Chinese business hub ranks territories into categories based on how widespread their Covid-19 infections are, with 153 countries including Singapore currently classified as Group A - from which arrivals must spend 21 days in quarantine.

Hong Kong's airport said anyone who has spent time in the last three weeks in any of those countries would be banned from transiting between Sunday and Feb 15.

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/hong-kong-airport-bans-transit-passengers-from-153-countries-including-singapore

Edited January 14, 2022 by Odyssey2011

[Windwaver]

On 1/11/2022 at 11:34 PM, Sosaria said:

Ownself shiok ownself  Everytime press conference

https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/ownself-check-ownself-virtue-spore-trouble-if-govt-cant-ensure-public-accountability-ong-ye-kung-1789921

'Ownself check ownself' is a virtue, S'pore in trouble if Govt can't ensure public accountability: Ong Ye Kung

• "Ownself check ownself" is a virtue, otherwise the Government cannot be accountable to the public, said Health Minister Ong Ye Kung
• The phrase was originally coined by Workers' Party chief Pritam Singh in 2015 
• Mr Ong was responding to a question asked at a Institute of Policy Studies conference on Thursday
• Besides having institutions and a neutral civil service to ensure accountability, having an opposition presence in Parliament also helps to surface alternative views, he said
• Nevertheless, Mr Ong does not believe a two-party system will happen in Singapore given its small size

[Sosaria]

5 minutes ago, Windwaver said:

https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/ownself-check-ownself-virtue-spore-trouble-if-govt-cant-ensure-public-accountability-ong-ye-kung-1789921

'Ownself check ownself' is a virtue, S'pore in trouble if Govt can't ensure public accountability: Ong Ye Kung

• "Ownself check ownself" is a virtue, otherwise the Government cannot be accountable to the public, said Health Minister Ong Ye Kung
• The phrase was originally coined by Workers' Party chief Pritam Singh in 2015 
• Mr Ong was responding to a question asked at a Institute of Policy Studies conference on Thursday
• Besides having institutions and a neutral civil service to ensure accountability, having an opposition presence in Parliament also helps to surface alternative views, he said
• Nevertheless, Mr Ong does not believe a two-party system will happen in Singapore given its small size

"Ownself check ownself" is a virtue, if and only if (here they forgot to mention), really really competent people are the "ownself".

Otherwise, please ask other competent people to double-check, is safer

Edited January 14, 2022 by Sosaria

[Tohto]

56 minutes ago, Odyssey2011 said:

Hong Kong airport bans transit passengers from 153 countries, including Singapore. 👏

The Chinese business hub ranks territories into categories based on how widespread their Covid-19 infections are, with 153 countries including Singapore currently classified as Group A - from which arrivals must spend 21 days in quarantine.

Hong Kong's airport said anyone who has spent time in the last three weeks in any of those countries would be banned from transiting between Sunday and Feb 15.

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/hong-kong-airport-bans-transit-passengers-from-153-countries-including-singapore

HK is trying very hard to let China open door to them lah..

[Nolicense]

13 minutes ago, Sosaria said:

"Ownself check ownself" is a virtue, if and only if (here they forgot to mention), really really competent people are the "ownself".

Otherwise, please ask other competent people to double-check, is safer

lol.. the more competent you are, the harder to check. you need someone just as competent or more otherwise kenna smoke... 

[Odyssey2011]

32 minutes ago, Sosaria said:

"Ownself check ownself" is a virtue, if and only if (here they forgot to mention), really really competent people are the "ownself".

Otherwise, please ask other competent people to double-check, is safer

“The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.” - Benjamin Franklin

[inlinesix]

7 hours ago, Tohto said:

HK is trying very hard to let China open door to them lah..

Previously, it was rumoured that China will do so once GZ reduced to Low risk.

Unlikely now with 5th wave in HK and another cluster in Zhongshan.

[Kopites]

1 hour ago, inlinesix said:

Previously, it was rumoured that China will do so once GZ reduced to Low risk.

Unlikely now with 5th wave in HK and another cluster in Zhongshan.

Likewise they are forcing Hong Kong people to go for vaccination. No vax no yum Cha. 😁

Copying us again. 

Edited January 14, 2022 by Kopites

[Kopites]

8 hours ago, Nolicense said:

lol.. the more competent you are, the harder to check. you need someone just as competent or more otherwise kenna smoke... 

If we cant find "someone" than get a "group" instead.

[inlinesix]

44 minutes ago, Kopites said:

Likewise they are forcing Hong Kong people to go for vaccination. No vax no yum Cha. 😁

Copying us again. 

Unlike China (80+%), HK vaccination rate is lower especially among elderly.

The City is going to back to partial lockdown till Feb 3.