SINGAPORE, Jan 1 — Singapore said on Friday it will stop allowing entry to visitors with a recent travel history to South Africa, citing reports of a potentially more contagious strain of the novel coronavirus circulating in the country.

MANILA, Dec 31 — A province of islands in the southern Philippines will seal itself off for an initial two weeks from Monday to keep out a new Covid-19 variant found in nearby Malaysia, its governor said.

PUTRAJAYA, June 10 — The declining number of positive Covid-19 cases will allow Health Ministry (MOH) health workers to focus on its joint research on Covid-19-related genomics with the Institute for Medical Research (IMR), said Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.