FREE ASEAN-HEADLINES: MASS MEDIA-STRAITS TIMES: SINGAPORE- What’s next in 2022: ST editors look ahead to the biggest issues of the new year

January 8, 2022January 9, 2022 Editor 0 Comment FREE ASEAN-HEADLINES: MASS MEDIA-STRAITS TIMES: SINGAPORE- What’s next in 2022: ST editors look ahead to the biggest issues of the new year

Is this the year we finally emerge from the pandemic? Will workers go back to the office? Will travel bounce back? Editors from The Straits Times look ahead to the world in 2022 and make some predictions about everything from the economy to the World Cup..

Time to walk the talk and start living with the virus

A viral video showing a gathering of hundreds on New Year’s Eve in Clarke Quay was hugely troubling for a nation locked in a grim battle to keep the coronavirus in check.

Covid-19 fatigue is real after two years of restrictions but the authorities have not spared the stick when rules are broken.

Agencies reviewing closed-circuit television footage will take action against those found to have breached the rules at Clarke Quay, Finance Minister and co-chair of the multi-ministry task force on Covid-19 Lawrence Wong said on Wednesday.

READ MORE: https://aseanews.net/?p=106546&preview=true

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1.BRUNEI DARUSSALAM

1.8.22

2. CAMBODIA

January 3, 2022

Push to vaccinate more as Omicron threat grows

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A man gets vaccinated with a first dose in Phnom Penh on April 1. KT/Pann Rachana

Amid Omicron and other variants of the Covid-19 virus, health officials are pushing harder to inoculate more people and the Health Ministry is also urging more than 72,000 people who haven’t received jabs due to health problems to consult with doctors again to study the possibility getting vaccinated.

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3. INDONESIA

1.8.22

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4. LAOS

1.7.21

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5. MALAYSIA:

1.8.22

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6. MYANMAR

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7. PHILIPPINES:

Today’s Paper: January 8, 2022

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8. SINGAPORE

1.5.22

US reclassifies Covid-19 travel advisory for Singapore to ‘unknown’

Singapore was previously under the CDC’s Travel Health Notice Level 4 classification and Americans were advised to avoid travelling there due to high infection rates. ST PHOTO: LIM YAOHUI

WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) – The United States Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday (Jan 4) reclassified its Covid-19 travel advisory for Singapore, guiding Americans to avoid travel to the South-east Asian nation because the level of the disease there is “unknown”.

“Because the current situation in Singapore is unknown, even fully vaccinated travellers may be at risk for getting and spreading Covid-19 variants,” the CDC said in its advisory.

On its website, the CDC said it uses Covid-19 data reported by the World Health Organisation and other official sources to make determinations about Travel Health Notice (THN) levels.

READ MORE: https://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/us-reclassifies-covid-19-travel-advisory-for-singapore-to-unknown

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9. THAILAND

1.3.22