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The Ministry of Health has reduced the waiting time for the third Covid-19 vaccine shot from six months to three. Those who contract the disease should get it as soon as they have fully recovered, it said further in guidelines issued on Friday. An earlier guideline on Dec. 1 had …

The Biden administration on Friday recommended Alphabet’s Google and Facebook parent Meta get permission to use an undersea cable system to handle growing internet traffic with Asia. The administration urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to grant licenses for the companies to send and receive data on the existing 8,000-mile …

Two years into the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. is confronting another dark winter, with the red-hot Omicron variant threatening to worsen an already dangerous surge of cases. Hospitalizations for Covid-19 have jumped 45 percent over the last month, and confirmed cases have increased 40 percent to a weeklong average of …

Canada announced Friday the lifting of a ban on foreign travelers from 10 African countries, while reimposing testing requirements and warning that the Omicron variant of Covid-19 risks quickly overwhelming hospitals. The travel restriction on flights from South Africa, Mozambique, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Eswatini, Namibia, Nigeria, Malawi and Egypt will …

At least 12 people have died in the strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines this year, the disaster agency said Friday, after the storm swept across the archipelago uprooting trees, toppling power poles and flooding villages. More than 300,000 people fled their homes and beachfront resorts as Typhoon Rai pummeled …

A HCMC court sentenced two Taiwanese men to death Friday for transporting 606 kilos of methamphetamine in 2019. Chiang Wei Chih, 32, and Yeh Ching Wei, 34, were found guilty of “illegally transporting narcotic substances.” Prosecutors said Chiang was hired by a man with no clear identification in Taiwan to …

PM Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party lost control of a previously safe parliamentary seat Friday in a surprise election result interpreted as a voter backlash against British leader beset by scandal. The centrist Liberal Democrats party candidate, Helen Morgan, won the North Shropshire seat by nearly 6,000 votes, overturning a 23,000 …

The Health Ministry announced 15,215 new Covid-19 patients Friday in 59 cities and provinces, bringing the number of infections in the fourth wave to more than 1.5 million. Southern Ben Tre Province recorded the most number of cases at 1,246, followed by Ca Mau with 1,071 cases and HCMC with …

All localities from Da Nang to Khanh Hoa on the central coast have evacuated people from vulnerable areas and asked seafaring vessels to take shelter from Typhoon Rai. On Friday, Da Nang City and the provinces of Quang Nam, Quang Ngai, Binh Dinh, Phu Yen and Khanh Hoa asked deep …

Localities from Da Nang City to Khanh Hoa Province have evacuated people from vulnerable areas and guided vessels to take shelter as Typhoon Rai approaches. Da Nang and provinces of Quang Nam, Quang Ngai, Binh Dinh, Phu Yen, Khanh Hoa on Friday requested ships to stay anchored as Typhoon Rai …