Singapore

SHARES of the trio of Singapore-listed glove names - Top Glove, Riverstone Holdings and UG Healthcare - skidded on Wednesday, shedding their gains from recent weeks, following news about Covid-19 vaccines in Russia, Singapore and the United States.

On Tuesday night, pharmaceutical firm Arcturus Therapeutics announced that Singapore's first volunteers have been dosed with a Covid-19 vaccine by Arcturus and Duke-NUS Medical School. Separately, Russia has approved its new vaccine against the novel coronavirus, while the US will buy 100 million doses of drugmaker Moderna's potential vaccine for some US$1.5 billion.