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  India's health minister has said the country is likely to have a Covid-19 vaccine by March next year, adding that up to 300m citizens will have been vaccinated by September. Harsh Vardhan said the government was preparing a data bank of those to be prioritised for immunisation, including healthcare and frontline workers and the elderly. "We know it's a humongous task to implement this," Mr Vardhan told AAj Tak, a television channel, adding that work on a vaccine distribution plan started three months ago. India, a big vaccine manufacturer, is working on 30 candidates, five of which are in clinical trials.India has recorded more than 9m cases, the second highest in the world. The...

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 Abdul Karim was Queen Victoria’s servant who gave her daily lessons in Urdu, advised her on Indian affairs, and introduced the queen to curry. They had a very close, platonic relationship with Karim being involved in all personal and royal matters of the queen. While he was Victoria’s beloved munshi, meaning teacher or clerk in Urdu, Karim was, for some, the most despised member of the royal court. The royals couldn’t accept such close affection between the Queen of Great Britain and an Indian servant. It was wrong on any level, but it seems like Victoria didn’t care much about it, and enjoyed Karim’s company as much as she could. She treated him as her...

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A Hong Kong man who sought the services of a sex worker in a MongKok brothel before testing positive for Covid-19 on Sunday has sparked a police contact-tracing operation to track down the sex worker involved and contacts of the patient. The Post learned on Monday officers were deployed to locate the sex worker in King Hing Building at the junction of Fa Yuen Street and Argyle Street over the weekend, but were unable to find the woman. “The sex worker was not found because the man was unable to tell which floor and unit the brothel is situated within the building,” a police source said.He said there were several brothel operations on two floors of the building the man had...

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  The makers of Russia's Covid-19 vaccine said on Tuesday interim trials showed efficiency rates of "above 95 per cent", results on a par with those of three western vaccines that have raised hopes coronavirus infections can be contained. Moscow's state-run Gamaleya Institute said data from nearly 19,000 volunteers showed the vaccine's efficacy was 91.4 per cent 28 days after they received the first dose of the two-shot jab, rising beyond 95 per cent in preliminary results after 42 days. The institute's director Alexander Ginsburg expects "the efficacy rate to be even higher based on the data three weeks after the second immunization when the body’s strongest and most stable...

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He made a statement saying “We also detained 10 customers consisting of seven local men and three foreign men between the ages 25 to 35 years old, apart from two men who were the caretakers of the premises.” “In this operation, we confiscated several condoms, lubricating gels, tissues and towels that we believe was used for the prostitution activities as this hotel. We also confiscated four laptops suspected of being used for the online gambling activities as well as cash amounting to RM1,266,” he added on. Also present at the operation site was Serdang District Police Chief Assistant Commissioner Razali Abu Samah. Azmi also said that the initial investigation...

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The anticipated distribution of a coronavirus vaccine, coupled with additional monetary easing could spell big trouble for the US dollar come next year. According to a Citibank research note, the US dollar could decline by as much as 20% in 2021 in the event of a successful mass vaccine distribution and further government stimulus measures. The latest Citibank forecast comes amid US-based Moderna announcing a 94.5% success rate of its COVID-19 experimental vaccine, and rival US-based Pfizer announcing a 90% efficacy rate for its vaccine. German biotechnology company BioNTech has also created a coronavirus vaccine that appears to have a 90% success rate, while developers of Russia’s...

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India’s health minister said on Sunday a locally-developed COVID-19 vaccine candidate could complete its final trials in a month or two, raising hopes for a rapid roll-out in a country with the world’s second highest number of infections. The state-run Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and privately-held Bharat Biotech this month started third-stage trials of COVAXIN, in a process that would involve 26,000 volunteers. It is the most advanced Indian experimental vaccine. “We are in the process of developing our indigenous vaccines, in the process of completing our third-phase trials in the next one or two months,” Harsh Vardhan told a web conference on the...

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Between July and September of 2020, USD35 billion were directly invested into Asia Pacific’s real estate, indicating recoup after the COVID-19 contraction. According to JLL, despite the 19 percent drop in third quarter numbers compared to other years, there was still a 35 percent quarter-on-quarter recovery. Investor confidence has soared the highest since the beginning of 2020, increasing capital spending across Asia Pacific’s prime markets. In the third quarter of 2020, the wider industrial market, particularly in logistics and data centre, has responded strongly. Institutional investment managers have also increased, compared to the start of 2020, which consisted mostly of...

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The "2020 (10th) Tin Industry Chain Summit”—held by SMM and exclusively named by GejiuQiandao Metal—took place during October 20-30. During the summit, SMM interviewed Zhang huanqun, general manager of GejiuQiandao Metal, to discuss topics about upstream sectors of tin. Q: As a widely used metal, tin has a large market in its downstream end-user market. We learned that Qiandao Metal, as a well-known enterprise in the tin industry, has a rich variety of products. Could you tell us what products Qiandao has? A: We mainly have four major businesses: tin solder production, tin ingot trades, tin scrap purchasing and tin ore trades and tin processing. Q: We all know that the...

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  A Myanmar man arrested for overstaying his visa by 848 days told officials the fake extension stamps in his passport were put there by a Thai "fixer". The man. named only as Khun, was among 22 foreigners arrested for immigration offences during a crackdown in the Bangkok area from Nov 9 and 15 on illegal migrants, part of efforts to prevent the spread of coronavirus disease. Pol Col Pakkhapong Sai-ubon, deputy spokesman for the Immigration Bureau, said on Tuesday that Mr Khun’s passport had fake visa stamps and fake signatures of an immigration official. The Myanmar man told officials he had given his passport to a Thai man who was supposed to arrange his extensions. Mr...

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