The Pandemic in Singapore

  Gamers in China find loopholes in law that limits minors' online gaming time  PUBLISHED SEP 11, 2021, 1:31 PM SGT FACEBOOK TWITTER BEIJING (CHINA DAILY/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Gamers in China are exploiting loopholes in the latest regulation that limits the number of hours minors spend playing online games, reports say. Following an amendment to the Law on the Protection of Minors, the National Press and Publication Administration recently issued a notice saying online game companies should provide services to minors only from 8pm to 9pm on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and statutory holidays. However, an investigation by China Central Television has found that some people are selling or renting out accounts registered in the name of adults to minors. CCTV said on Tuesday (Sept 7) that a minor played King of Glory for two hours after shelling out 33 yuan (S$6.87). The report was trending on Sina Weibo all day. Cases of children logging in to game portals using their grandparents'...

More US studies show COVID vaccines protect from serious illness Research suggests vaccines offer strong protection against hospitalisation and death, even for the Delta variant.   “Looking at cases over the past two months when the Delta variant was the predominant variant circulating in this country, those who were unvaccinated were about four-and-a-half times more likely to get COVID-19, over 10 times more likely to be hospitalised, and 11 times more likely to die from the disease,” Walensky said. While protection remained strong against  Delta , the study also confirmed an increase in milder COVID-19 infections among fully vaccinated people, which the authors said reflected “potential waning of vaccine-induced population immunity”. Two other US studies also found that COVID-19 vaccines offer strong protection against hospitalisation and death, even in the face of the highly transmissible Delta variant, but vaccine protection appears to be waning among older people, especia...