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India sets new global record for daily Covid-19 cases

India sets new global record for daily Covid-19 cases

Reuters 2021-04-22 10:53:51

India on Thursday reported more than 300,000 coronavirus cases over the last 24 hours, the highest daily global total, while Covid-19-related deaths also jumped by a record. India's daily jump in cas...

Blast at Pakistan luxury hotel leaves four dead

Blast at Pakistan luxury hotel leaves four dead

-- 2021-04-22 09:29:22

A bomb explosion at a luxury hotel in the Pakistani city of Quetta has killed at least four people and wounded 12. The Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan is suspected to have been the target of the a...

Search for missing Indonesian submarine reveals oil spill

Search for missing Indonesian submarine reveals oil spill

-- 2021-04-21 22:07:16

Indonesian rescuers searching for a submarine that went missing with 53 people on board found an oil spill on Wednesday near where the vessel dived, authorities said. The 44-year-old submarine, KRI N...

Serum Institute may resume vaccine exports after two months

Serum Institute may resume vaccine exports after two months

-- 2021-04-21 21:51:41

Serum Institute of India (SII) is not thinking about exports of its COVID-19 vaccine doses at this moment as India may face crisis for jab until July. Amid a steep rise in Covid-19 cases in India and...

Oman suspends entry for travellers from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan

Oman suspends entry for travellers from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan

-- 2021-04-21 21:29:58

Oman has decided to bar entry to arrivals from Bangladesh, India and Pakistan as part of the efforts to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. The travel suspension will come into effect on April 24, reports...

Sri Lanka reports six cases of blood clots among AstraZeneca vaccine recipients, three dead

Sri Lanka reports six cases of blood clots among AstraZeneca vaccine recipients, three dead

-- 2021-04-21 19:49:50

Sri Lanka has found six cases of blood clots among recipients of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, three of whom have died, Sri Lankan Health Minister Pavithra Waniarachchi told parliament on Wednesda...

India allows vaccine sales in open market from May 1

India allows vaccine sales in open market from May 1

-- 2021-04-21 18:22:45

India has allowed sales of COVID-19 vaccine doses in the open market from May 1 with an aim to bring everyone over the age of 18 can under vaccination programme and to encourage vaccine makers to boos...

Oxygen leak leaves 22 Covid-19 patients dead in India

Oxygen leak leaves 22 Covid-19 patients dead in India

BBC 2021-04-21 17:08:09

At least 22 Covid patients have died in a hospital in India after they lost oxygen supply due to a leak. The incident occurred on Wednesday while an oxygen tanker was refilling a storage tank at the...

Delhi running out of medical oxygen as India battles coronavirus ‘storm’

Delhi running out of medical oxygen as India battles coronavirus ‘storm’

-- 2021-04-21 12:55:46

Authorities said hospitals in the Indian capital of Delhi would start running out of medical oxygen by Wednesday as Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the country faced a coronavirus "storm" overwhelmi...

China, Myanmar among countries criticised for 'rising religious persecution'

China, Myanmar among countries criticised for 'rising religious persecution'

Reuters 2021-04-21 11:58:16

Violations of religious freedom are increasing and persecution takes place in more than 25 countries, with China and Myanmar among those that have the worst records, according to a report by a Vatican...

Modi urges state governments to use lockdown as last resort

Modi urges state governments to use lockdown as last resort

Reuters 2021-04-20 22:30:22

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged state governments on Tuesday to use lockdowns as the last resort to contain the spread of the second wave of COVID-19 infections, even as cases and deaths sur...

Rahul Gandhi tests positive for coronavirus

Rahul Gandhi tests positive for coronavirus

-- 2021-04-20 17:42:17

India's Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday tested positive for the coronavirus disease (Covid-19). He took to Twitter to announce that he has mild symptoms. "After experiencing mild sympto...

China calls for fairer world order as rivalry with US deepens

China calls for fairer world order as rivalry with US deepens

-- 2021-04-20 17:31:52

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday called for a rejection of hegemonic power structures in global governance, amid growing tensions between Washington and Beijing over a widening range of issues...

EU sanctions against Myanmar military, companies expanded

EU sanctions against Myanmar military, companies expanded

AP 2021-04-20 16:40:13

The European Union expanded its sanctions against Myanmar’s military leaders and army-controlled companies ahead of a regional meeting to discuss the worsening crisis after army leaders deposed...

Chinese scholar blames BBC for ‘biased tone’ on Hong Kong issue

Chinese scholar blames BBC for ‘biased tone’ on Hong Kong issue

Global Times 2021-04-20 16:31:34

A Chinese scholar, Victor Gao, was recently invited to the BBC's Newsnight to debate Hong Kong’s politician Nathan Law after imprisonment of media tycoon Jimmy Lai and other opposition figures o...

India suffers record daily Covid deaths

India suffers record daily Covid deaths

Reuters 2021-04-20 16:04:11

India reported 1,761 deaths from Covid-19 overnight, its highest daily toll, with large parts of the country now under lockdown, as the country battles a second wave that has left people fighting for...

China's Xi calls for fairer world order amid deepening rivalry with US

China's Xi calls for fairer world order amid deepening rivalry with US

REUTERS 2021-04-20 15:20:27

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday called for a rejection of hegemonic power structures in global governance, amid growing tensions between Washington and Beijing over a widening range of issues...

ASEAN calls summit on Myanmar crisis

ASEAN calls summit on Myanmar crisis

REUTERS 2021-04-20 12:46:01

Southeast Asian countries will discuss the crisis in Myanmar at a summit in Jakarta on Saturday, the ASEAN bloc's secretariat said on Tuesday, after the European Union imposed its toughest sanctions y...

India to vaccinate all adults over 18 as infection surges

India to vaccinate all adults over 18 as infection surges

-- 2021-04-20 09:43:00

India has widened its vaccination programme as infections surge and the capital goes into lockdown. All adults over the age of 18 will be offered a coronavirus jab starting from 1 May, the govern...

Former Indian PM Manmohan Singh hospitalised after contracting coronavirus

Former Indian PM Manmohan Singh hospitalised after contracting coronavirus

-- 2021-04-19 20:23:36

Former prime minister of India Manmohan Singh has been hospitalised after contracting for COVID-19, according to reports in the Indian media. The veteran Congress leader underwent a COVID-19 test aft...

Japanese journalist picked up by Myanmar troops from his home in Yangon

Japanese journalist picked up by Myanmar troops from his home in Yangon

REUTERS 2021-04-19 19:41:37

Myanmar authorities detained a Japanese journalist in Yangon on Sunday evening, Japan's government said on Monday, adding that it was trying to seek his release. BBC Burmese quoted a witness as sayin...

Delhi locks down as Covid cases surge

Delhi locks down as Covid cases surge

REUTERS 2021-04-19 16:45:24

India's capital region of Delhi ordered a six-day lockdown on Monday as daily Covid-19 cases nationwide hit a new record and the health system crumbled under the weight of new infections. India's hos...

India accepts Serum Institute’s request for $400 million as grant

India accepts Serum Institute’s request for $400 million as grant

-- 2021-04-19 16:21:09

India is set to accept the Serum Institute of India's (SII) request for a grant of 30 billion rupees ($400 million) to boost its capacity to make the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, a government source...

Philippines lifts suspension on AstraZeneca vaccine for under 60s

Philippines lifts suspension on AstraZeneca vaccine for under 60s

Reuters 2021-04-19 16:15:41

The Philippines will resume administering AstraZeneca's (AZN.L) COVID-19 vaccine to people below 60 years of age, health officials said on Monday, ending a temporary suspension over reports of rare bl...

India struggles with Covid bed shortage

India struggles with Covid bed shortage

REUTERS 2021-04-19 15:40:48

India's daily Covid-19 cases jumped by a record 273,810 on Monday as the health system crumbled under the weight of patients, bringing total infections closer to that of the United States, the world's...

Long-awaited Australia-New Zealand travel bubble finally opens

Long-awaited Australia-New Zealand travel bubble finally opens

-- 2021-04-19 12:48:34

Tearful reunions filled Auckland airport on Monday as residents from Australia were able to travel freely to New Zealand for the first time in more than a year. The long-awaited Australia-New Zea...

Deadly clashes after Islamists take police hostage in Lahore

Deadly clashes after Islamists take police hostage in Lahore

-- 2021-04-18 21:33:12

Police in Pakistan said a hardline Islamist group had taken six security personnel hostage at its headquarters in Lahore on Sunday after a week of violent clashes following the arrest of the group's l...

Officials of Saudi Arabia, Iran hold direct talks in Iraq

Officials of Saudi Arabia, Iran hold direct talks in Iraq

-- 2021-04-18 18:15:58

Senior Saudi and Iranian officials held direct talks in a bid to repair relations between the two regional rivals, according to a report that quoted officials briefed on the discussions. The first ro...

Israel lifts public mask mandate, opens schools

Israel lifts public mask mandate, opens schools

AP 2021-04-18 17:29:03

Israel has lifted a public mask mandate and fully reopened its education system in the latest easing of coronavirus restrictions following its mass vaccination drive. All primary and secondary school...

Iran has started enriching uranium to 60pc purity: IAEA

Iran has started enriching uranium to 60pc purity: IAEA

REUTERS 2021-04-18 15:21:12

Iran has started the process of enriching uranium to 60 per cent fissile purity at an above-ground nuclear plant at Natanz, the UN nuclear watchdog said on Saturday, confirming earlier statements by I...