Khairy speaks during an event in Putrajaya on May 12, 2022. – Bernama photo KUALA LUMPUR (June 20): For the first time since Dec 18, 2020, Malaysia reported zero deaths due to Covid-19, said Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin. “Our ongoing transition to endemicity has been caliberated and data-driven. Let us pray it continues paying off,”…
Hamilton, Halton, Niagara and area news from CHCH – Hamilton, Halton, and Niagara news.. Amid Health Canada’s review of vaccine doses for toddlers and infants, some parents here in Hamilton feel the jabs may not be necessary. Jason Gaidola has the story. The post Some Hamilton parents feel vaccinating toddlers and infants may not…
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Doug Forbes poses for a portrait in front of the Capitol while holding a picture of his daughter Roxie. Photo by Fred Greaves for CalMatters As summer kicks off, more than a million California children are gearing up for horseback riding, swimming, archery, computer coding, and hip hop day camps. As parents scout out fun activities…
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A parent waits as her daughter receives the Covid-19 vaccination. – Photo by Chimon Upon KUCHING (June 19): Over 77 per cent of children aged five to 11 in Sarawak have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19, as of yesterday. According to the Ministry of Health’s CovidNow website, 77.4 per cent or a total of 221,291…
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Photo courtesy of Pixabay Summer is officially in full-swing, and while the kids are ecstatic for a break from the classroom, parents are feeling that extra heavy lift. My oldest is starting kindergarten in the fall, and the question of what I’ll do with him during those long school breaks already has me feeling overwhelmed! …
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This week, approval should have been secured to begin vaccinating children under the age of 5 for COVID-19. Both Pfizer and Moderna had products that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were to review. Pfizer’s shots are one-tenth of the adult dose and will be given…
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A nurse prepares a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccination in California. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson San Diego County public health officials are awaiting word from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Western States committee on approval of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 6 months to 5 years and Pfizer’s for children ages 6 months to…
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Loh Siew Hong together with her lawyers seen leaving the Kuala Lumpur High Court on June 15, 2022. – Malay Mail photo KUALA LUMPUR (June 15): The High Court today dismissed the Perlis Islamic Religious and Malay Customs Council’s (MAIP) application to intervene in a divorce petition between a single mother, Loh Siew Hong and…
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Loading the player… Jessica Oberoi, 13, can’t exactly remember when her eyesight started getting blurry. All she knows is that she had to squint to see the whiteboard at school. It wasn’t until last fall when her eighth grade class in Bloomington, Indiana, got vision screenings that Jessica’s extreme nearsightedness and amblyopia, or lazy eye,…
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Fox News aired a segment featuring a family with a transgender child on “America’s Newsroom” Friday. The segment referred to 14-year-old Ryland Whittington, a biological girl who began transitioning at age 5, as a “typical Southern California teenager.” The family went viral in a 2014 YouTube video and the mother, Hillary, has written a book…
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