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India says no decision yet on easing or lifting flight restrictions

India says no decision yet on easing or lifting flight restrictions

REUTERS 2020-04-19 15:00:34

India has not yet taken a decision on when to lift or ease restrictions on domestic and international flights and urged airlines to take travel bookings only after a final decision is made, a governme...

Turkey's coronavirus cases overtake Iran

Turkey's coronavirus cases overtake Iran

-- 2020-04-19 12:52:26

Turkey’s confirmed coronavirus cases have risen to 82,329, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on Saturday (Turkey standard time), overtaking neighbouring Iran for the first time to register the...

Pakistan lifts limit on mosque congregations as Ramadan nears

Pakistan lifts limit on mosque congregations as Ramadan nears

REUTERS 2020-04-19 09:57:27

Pakistan has lifted restrictions on congregational prayers at mosques, but put in place a host of safety conditions to avert the further spread of the coronavirus in the country, a statement said on S...

Japan confirmed Covid-19 cases hit 10,000

Japan confirmed Covid-19 cases hit 10,000

-- 2020-04-18 18:08:54

The number of confirmed novel coronavirus cases in Japan rose to 10,000 on Saturday, just days after a state of emergency was extended to the entire nation in an attempt to slow the spread of the viru...

Singapore reports 623 new COVID-19 cases

Singapore reports 623 new COVID-19 cases

-- 2020-04-18 17:30:20

Singapore's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported 623 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, bringing the total confirmed cases in the country to 5,050. The ministry also said that 69 per cent of the new cases we...

32 die in clash between Myanmar military, ethnic rebels

32 die in clash between Myanmar military, ethnic rebels

-- 2020-04-18 09:53:40

A surge in fighting between the Myanmar military and insurgents has killed at least 32 civilians, mostly women and children, in the restive Rakhine and Chin states, the UN human rights office said on...

South Asia coronavirus cases reach 22,000 on Friday

South Asia coronavirus cases reach 22,000 on Friday

Reuters 2020-04-17 20:23:27

The number of people infected with the coronavirus crossed 22,000 in densely populated South Asia on Friday driven by a rise in cases in India as the tiny Indian Ocean island nation of Maldives locked...

Indonesia reports highest number of coronavirus cases in Southeast Asia

Indonesia reports highest number of coronavirus cases in Southeast Asia

-- 2020-04-17 16:15:59

Indonesia reported on Friday 407 new coronavirus cases, taking the total number of cases to 5,923 and surpassing the Philippines as the country with the highest number of infections in Southeast Asia....

Virus fallout stokes divisions between India's Muslims and Hindus

Virus fallout stokes divisions between India's Muslims and Hindus

Reuters 2020-04-17 16:06:53

The purple ink stamped on Iqbal Hussain Siddiqui's hand by Indian health workers was supposed to ensure he stayed home under quarantine.  But the 66-year-old Siddiqui, an egg seller in Mumbai's...

Ramadan prayers banned at Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque

Ramadan prayers banned at Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque

Reuters 2020-04-17 12:14:03

Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque compound will be closed to Muslim worshippers throughout the holy fasting month of Ramadan due to the coronavirus epidemic, Muslim clerics at Islam’s third-hol...

India's newspapers slash jobs, salaries

India's newspapers slash jobs, salaries

Reuters 2020-04-16 18:18:27

India's vibrant newspaper industry that reaches tens of millions of readers daily has been ravaged by declining advertising revenues due to a nationwide lockdown to fight the coronavirus, pushing lead...

China confirms air cargo transport of anti-virus supplies

China confirms air cargo transport of anti-virus supplies

-- 2020-04-16 17:29:51

China's civil aviation authority has moved to ensure air cargo transport of supplies for the fight against the novel coronavirus outbreak worldwide, reports Xinhua. The Civil Aviation Administration...

Kashmir fells trees in effort to fight coronavirus panic

Kashmir fells trees in effort to fight coronavirus panic

-- 2020-04-16 16:45:16

Fearing a convergence of respiratory allergies and spread of the coronavirus pandemic, Kashmir authorities have ordered the felling of tens of thousands of poplar trees that account for nearly a third...

Why are some South Koreans who recovered from COVID-19 testing positive again?

Why are some South Koreans who recovered from COVID-19 testing positive again?

REUTERS 2020-04-16 16:18:00

South Korean health officials are investigating several possible explanations for a small but growing number of recovered coronavirus patients who later test positive for the virus again. Among the m...

Citing WHO, China says no evidence coronavirus was made in a lab

Citing WHO, China says no evidence coronavirus was made in a lab

Reuters 2020-04-16 15:48:57

China’s foreign ministry said on Thursday the World Health Organization (WHO) has said there is no evidence that the coronavirus that has infected more than 2 million people globally was made in...

India charges Muslim leader with culpable homicide for coronavirus surge

India charges Muslim leader with culpable homicide for coronavirus surge

-- 2020-04-16 12:49:04

India has brought charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder against the chief of a Muslim seminary for holding a gathering last month that authorities say led to a big jump in coronavirus i...

China sees rise in local coronavirus infections

China sees rise in local coronavirus infections

Reuters 2020-04-16 10:48:46

China reported on Thursday fewer new coronavirus cases involving travellers arriving from overseas, but locally transmitted infections rose, with the Chinese capital seeing new local cases for the fir...

Schools urged to reopen as Australia mulls easing of coronavirus restrictions

Schools urged to reopen as Australia mulls easing of coronavirus restrictions

-- 2020-04-16 10:27:39

Australia’s federal government on Thursday urged state premiers to reopen schools as it considers how to start winding back some other restrictions on movement that have helped slow the spread o...

India agrees to sell anti-malarial drug to Malaysia

India agrees to sell anti-malarial drug to Malaysia

-- 2020-04-15 17:27:43

India has agreed to sell hydroxychloroquine tablets to Malaysia for use in the treatment of COVID-19 patients, a Malaysian minister said on Wednesday, with New Delhi partially lifting its bar on expor...

Last medical assistance team leaves Hubei as epidemic subsides

Last medical assistance team leaves Hubei as epidemic subsides

-- 2020-04-15 17:15:21

The last medical assistance team started leaving Hubei Province Wednesday as the COVID-19 epidemic in the hard-hit province has been subdued. The medical team consisting of over 180 medical workers f...

460,000 Chinese companies shut down in Q1 amid COVID-19 outbreak   

460,000 Chinese companies shut down in Q1 amid COVID-19 outbreak  

Global Times 2020-04-15 16:54:47

A total of 460,000 businesses in China succumbed to the novel coronavirus assault in the first quarter of 2020, among which 57 per cent had been in operation for less than three years, according to a...

Japan urges citizens to maintain distancing as reports predict 400,000 deaths

Japan urges citizens to maintain distancing as reports predict 400,000 deaths

-- 2020-04-15 16:11:21

Japan urged its citizens on Wednesday to stay home, as media reports warned that as many as 400,000 of them could die of the coronavirus without urgent action, and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe came under...

China didn’t warn public of likely pandemic for six key days

China didn’t warn public of likely pandemic for six key days

AP 2020-04-15 16:05:19

In the six days after top Chinese officials secretly determined they likely were facing a pandemic from a new coronavirus, the city of Wuhan at the epicentre of the disease hosted a mass banquet for t...

Wearing masks and gloves, South Koreans vote in national elections

Wearing masks and gloves, South Koreans vote in national elections

Reuters 2020-04-15 11:57:16

South Koreans began going to the polls on Wednesday to elect members of parliament, wearing masks and plastic gloves as part of strict safety measures in one of the first national elections held amid...

Global Covid-19 cases approach 2 million

Global Covid-19 cases approach 2 million

-- 2020-04-15 10:22:09

The global death toll from novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has reached 126,604 as of Wednesday morning. There have been 1,998,111 confirmed cases around the world after the highly contagious disease was...

Indian migrants running away from quarantine

Indian migrants running away from quarantine

-- 2020-04-15 09:32:21

Thousands of Indians who fled cities to return to their villages after the government imposed a coronavirus lockdown have been running away from quarantine centres. In government schools and village...

China approves three coronavirus vaccines for clinical trials

China approves three coronavirus vaccines for clinical trials

-- 2020-04-14 21:30:00

China has approved three COVID-19 vaccine candidates for clinical trials, said an official with the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) on Tuesday, reports Xinhua. An adenovirus vector vaccine,...

India extends lockdown, ignites protest by migrant workers

India extends lockdown, ignites protest by migrant workers

Reuters 2020-04-14 20:36:48

India extended a lockdown on its 1.3 billion people until at least May 3 on Tuesday and Prime Minister Narendra Modi said economic sacrifices were needed to save lives as the number of coronavirus cas...

North Korea test fires multiple short-range anti-ship missiles

North Korea test fires multiple short-range anti-ship missiles

-- 2020-04-14 16:31:50

North Korea launched multiple short-range anti-ship cruise missiles into the sea and Sukhoi jets fired air-to-surface missiles on Tuesday as part of its ongoing military exercises, South Korea’s...

Philippines ramps up coronavirus testing to find thousands of unknown infections

Philippines ramps up coronavirus testing to find thousands of unknown infections

-- 2020-04-14 15:01:00

The Philippines introduced a more aggressive testing programme for the coronavirus on Tuesday to locate as many as 15,000 unknown infections, despite having implemented some of Asia’s strictest...