UNAM is calling the triple-layered antimicrobial facemask SakCu; Sak means silver in Mayan and Cu is the chemical symbol for copper.

As more and more people focus on maintaining both physical and mental well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic, some Indonesians opt to attend yoga classes online to “escape” their isolation and stay healthy.

Achieving the ideal weight is also about quality of life

Following the abolishment of ‘virginity testing’ on female applicants to the Indonesian Military (TNI), The Jakarta Post spoke with women who had gone through the invasive procedure.

Tokyo Paralympics organisers said Sunday they were tightening virus rules, including upping testing and further limiting movement, as Japan battles a record wave of infections days before the opening ceremony.  

The company said on Friday that 75 percent of the participants in the trial for the therapy - two types of antibodies discovered by Vanderbilt University Medical Center - had chronic conditions including some with a lower immune response to vaccinations.

Masks have been compulsory since April last year in Singapore, which has been among the most successful countries in containing coronavirus outbreaks, with only 46 deaths recorded.

Kenya will extend a night curfew and other restrictions to counter an exponential rise in Covid-19 cases, the government said Wednesday. 

China accounted for the largest number of deaths with about 2.42 million, nearly 30 percent of the world total, followed by India at 1.01 million, the United States at 530,000, Russia at 290,000 and Indonesia at 250,000, according to the estimate published in the British medical journal the Lancet.

Beaten and stranded at sea, Imam Syafi survived and now leads a movement to reform an industry rife with exploitation.

As COVID-19 continues, coaches hope that Indonesians wanting to stay fit can see the benefit of online exercises    

On a rainy evening in the east Berlin neighbourhood of Alt-Treptow, the draw isn't just dance music but vaccines as well.

The virus, which is carried by bats and has a fatality rate of up to 88 percent, was found in samples taken from a patient who died on August 2 in southern Gueckedou prefecture, the WHO said.

Sri Lanka has begun mass cremations to clear a backlog of dead bodies from Covid-19 as cases surge across the island, officials said Monday.

Microsoft on Thursday joined the ranks of tech companies requiring returning workers to be vaccinated, as Amazon delayed its plan to reopen offices until next year.

Three employees at CNN have been fired for violating the network's coronavirus policy by coming into the office unvaccinated, according to US media reports.

Sanofi will buy Translate Bio, with which it has been working to develop an mRNA Covid jab, for $3.2 billion (2.7 billion euros), the company said in a statement.

Hundreds of anti-lockdown demonstrators defied a court-ordered protest ban on Sunday and gathered illegally in the streets of Berlin, resulting in scuffles with police.

Two Sumatran tigers were recovering at a Jakarta zoo after being infected with coronavirus, Indonesian officials said Sunday, as they probed how the critically endangered animals got sick.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the data underscored that the Delta variant, the dominant strain of the coronavirus in the United States, is highly contagious. The White House, however, maintained that the view of the CDC is that breakthrough cases among vaccinated people are "rare."

Israeli pharmaceutical Oramed is attempting to accomplish just that, and is poised to start its first clinical trial in early August, CEO Nadav Kidron told AFP in an interview.

A team of doctors in Saudi Arabia has separated a Yemeni baby from her parasitic twin, authorities said, marking their 50th successful operation on conjoined twins.

France said on Thursday it failed to understand why it was exempt from a new rule allowing fully-vaccinated European Union citizens to enter England without having to quarantine.

Indonesians with autoimmune diseases face their own set of pandemic challenges

Amid the still-lingering stigma against HIV/AIDS patients, Indonesia aims to introduce an HIV prevention drug, known as PrEP, in a pilot project in selected cities later this year.

New York's Metropolitan Opera will require audiences and performers to be fully vaccinated for its upcoming season, the house announced Tuesday amid debate in the United States about mandatory vaccinations.

Chinese researchers reported the findings from a study of blood samples from healthy adults aged between 18-59 in a paper published on Sunday, which has not been peer reviewed.

Even though the government has imposed a work-from-home policy for nonessential workers, some companies and institutions are running as usual. 

Vaccine protection remains very strong against severe infections and hospitalizations caused by any version of the coronavirus, and those most at risk are still the unvaccinated, according to interviews with 10 leading COVID-19 experts.

The issue came to prominence after Spanish synchronized swimmer Ona Carbonell expressed anguish in an Instagram post at having to travel to Tokyo without her husband and son, Kai, who is nearly one, because under pre-Games travel rules they would have had to stay in quarantine in a separate hotel.