"high-risk"

Members of the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration were deemed at risk of contracting the virus after the Bangkok governor attended a key meeting on Wednesday.

The northwestern Chinese city of Xi'an is expected to clear all areas classified as high and medium-risk for COVID-19 on Jan. 25, provided no special circumstances arise, a government official said on Saturday.

Although Germany is far from achieving herd immunity, its vaccination campaign has slowed down. The country needs to achieve around 20 million booster vaccinations by Christmas, according to German Chancellery Minister Helge Braun, while only 2.8 million people in Germany have received additional booster shots so far.

THAILAND has been rated as a very high-risk country for corruption in the defence and security industries, according to Transparency Inter-national, a Berlin-based global coalition against corruption.