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Modi apologises to poor people as lockdown criticism mounts

Modi apologises to poor people as lockdown criticism mounts

-- 2020-03-29 16:26:07

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked the nation's poor for forgiveness on Sunday, as the economic and human toll from his 21-day nationwide lockdown deepens and criticism mounts about a lack of a...

A coronavirus death exposes paranoia in India

A coronavirus death exposes paranoia in India

REUTERS 2020-03-29 15:47:28

When Satyaki Mitra’s father developed a mild fever in mid-March, the graduate student in Philadelphia wasn’t especially worried. He told his 57-year-old father, living in the eastern India...

Saudi Arabia shuts entry and exit into Jeddah, brings forward curfew

Saudi Arabia shuts entry and exit into Jeddah, brings forward curfew

-- 2020-03-29 14:17:47

Saudi Arabia shut down entry and exit into the Jeddah governorate and brought forward a curfew there to begin at 3 pm local time (1200 GMT), state news agency SPA said on Sunday. The curfew in Jeddah...

N Korea fires more missiles than ever amid coronavirus outbreak

N Korea fires more missiles than ever amid coronavirus outbreak

Reuters 2020-03-29 13:35:00

North Korea fired what appeared to be two short-range ballistic missiles into the ocean off its east coast on Sunday, the latest in an unprecedented flurry of launches that South Korea decried as &ldq...

India to use some train coaches as coronavirus isolation wards

India to use some train coaches as coronavirus isolation wards

-- 2020-03-29 13:05:05

India said on Saturday it was planning to turn some railway coaches into isolation wards for patients with coronavirus, as authorities scramble to prepare the country’s health infrastructure for...

India plans to turn some idled trains into coronavirus isolation wards

India plans to turn some idled trains into coronavirus isolation wards

Reuters 2020-03-28 20:37:52

India said on Saturday it was planning to turn some railway coaches into isolation wards for patients with coronavirus, as authorities scramble to prepare the country's health infrastructure for an ex...

Indian authorities send buses to meet exodus of people from capital

Indian authorities send buses to meet exodus of people from capital

AP 2020-03-28 18:39:20

Indian authorities sent a fleet of buses to the outskirts of the capital on Saturday to meet an exodus of migrant workers desperately trying to reach their home villages during the world's largest cor...

In Iraq, coronavirus terrifies even doctors

In Iraq, coronavirus terrifies even doctors

-- 2020-03-28 18:09:37

Through decades of conflict, Dr Haidar Hantoush has watched wounded soldiers and civilians flood into Iraq's emergency wards. But he's never been so scared. "Violence we can just about handle. Patien...

Life at Wuhan partly resumes after lockdown

Life at Wuhan partly resumes after lockdown

-- 2020-03-28 15:52:36

The city in China where the coronavirus pandemic began, Wuhan, has partially re-opened after more than two months of isolation, reports BBC. Crowds of passengers were pictured arriving at Wuhan train...

Tokyo coronavirus cases rise by daily record, residents urged to stay home

Tokyo coronavirus cases rise by daily record, residents urged to stay home

-- 2020-03-28 15:23:01

Tokyo has confirmed more than 50 new coronavirus infections, a record daily increase, public broadcaster NHK reported on Saturday as the governor of Japan’s capital urged citizens to stay indoor...

China reports no local virus transmissions as foreigners barred

China reports no local virus transmissions as foreigners barred

-- 2020-03-28 10:31:10

China on Saturday reported no locally transmitted coronavirus infections for the previous day and a small reduction in new cases involving travellers from overseas, as new restrictions on the entry of...

China bars foreign visitors as imported cases rise

China bars foreign visitors as imported cases rise

BBC 2020-03-27 21:00:34

China has announced a temporary ban on all foreign visitors, even if they have visas or residence permits. The country is also limiting Chinese and foreign airlines to one flight per week, and flight...

Time lapsed in defence of India's medical staff

Time lapsed in defence of India's medical staff

-- 2020-03-27 15:34:11

As the coronavirus spread across Asia in February, Indian manufacturers of personal protective equipment contacted the health ministry urging the government to stock up, reports Reuters. They got no...

Malaysia announces $58-billion package to cushion impact of virus

Malaysia announces $58-billion package to cushion impact of virus

-- 2020-03-27 14:32:23

Malaysia announced a stimulus package worth 250 billion ringgit ($58.28 billion) on Friday, its second in a month, to help cushion the economic blow from the coronavirus pandemic. The number of confi...

China's Xi offers Trump help in fighting coronavirus

China's Xi offers Trump help in fighting coronavirus

Reuters 2020-03-27 14:22:00

Chinese President Xi Jinping told US President Donald Trump during a phone call on Friday that he would have China’s support in fighting the coronavirus, as the United States faces the prospect...

Japan says no need now for state of emergency

Japan says no need now for state of emergency

Reuters 2020-03-27 11:46:48

The Japanese government said on Friday there was no need now to declare a state of emergency, after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe the previous day described the coronavirus as a “national crisis&rdq...

Indian state to free 11,000 prisoners to control Covid-19

Indian state to free 11,000 prisoners to control Covid-19

-- 2020-03-27 11:30:33

India's western state of Maharashtra will be releasing about 11,000 prisoners to reduce overcrowding in prisons in a bid to curb the risk of coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, state home minister Anil D...

In China’s Hubei, uncertainty, pessimism and hope as life resumes

In China’s Hubei, uncertainty, pessimism and hope as life resumes

Reuters 2020-03-27 11:25:33

Li Yu is happy she sold six pieces of roasted corn on the day she reopened her stall after travel restrictions were lifted in Jingzhou, but she worries about the future of her business near the city&r...

Panic-buying in Tokyo as residents asked to hunker down for weekend

Panic-buying in Tokyo as residents asked to hunker down for weekend

-- 2020-03-27 09:36:55

Queues formed at supermarkets and stores in Tokyo on Friday as residents in the Japanese capital prepared for a weekend at home after the city’s governor called on them to stay at home to preven...

Refugees, daily wage earners at overwhelming risk: Amnesty

Refugees, daily wage earners at overwhelming risk: Amnesty

-- 2020-03-26 19:48:01

The spread of the novel coronavirus has left the vulnerable and marginalised in grave peril as daily wage earners, people displaced by conflict, health workers and prisoners face huge risks in the fac...

India's coronavirus cases rise despite countrywide lockdown

India's coronavirus cases rise despite countrywide lockdown

-- 2020-03-26 16:47:08

Three more people infected with coronavirus died overnight in India as the government sought on Thursday to improve basic services to 1.3 billion people locked indoors to slow the spread of the diseas...

Iran starts intercity travel ban amid fears of second wave of coronavirus

Iran starts intercity travel ban amid fears of second wave of coronavirus

-- 2020-03-26 14:52:59

Iran started an intercity travel ban on Thursday, an Iranian official said in a televised news conference, amid fears of a second wave of coronavirus infections in the Middle East’s worst-hit co...

Indonesia’s health system on the brink as coronavirus surge looms

Indonesia’s health system on the brink as coronavirus surge looms

-- 2020-03-26 11:57:57

Indonesia has a significant deficit in hospital beds, medical staff and intensive care facilities as health experts warn that it is primed to become a new epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic, accord...

China reports 2nd consecutive day of no new local COVID-19 transmissions

China reports 2nd consecutive day of no new local COVID-19 transmissions

-- 2020-03-26 10:36:52

Mainland China reported a second consecutive day of no new local coronavirus infections as the epicentre of the epidemic Hubei province opened its borders, but imported cases rose as Beijing ramped up...

Gunmen in Afghanistan kill 25 at Sikh complex

Gunmen in Afghanistan kill 25 at Sikh complex

Reuters 2020-03-26 10:18:13

Gunmen and suicide bombers raided a Sikh religious complex in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Wednesday, killing 25 people before security forces killed all of the attackers, the government said. The...

New Zealand mosque shooter shocks with switch to guilty plea

New Zealand mosque shooter shocks with switch to guilty plea

Reuters 2020-03-26 09:56:05

An Australian man accused of killing 51 Muslim worshippers in New Zealand’s worst mass shooting changed his plea to guilty in a surprise move on Thursday. Brenton Tarrant, who appeared by video...

India plans $20b incentive package to tackle coronavirus downturn

India plans $20b incentive package to tackle coronavirus downturn

-- 2020-03-25 18:04:39

India is likely to agree an economic stimulus package of more than 1.5 trillion rupees ($19.6 billion) to fight a downturn in the country that is currently locked down to stem the spread of coronaviru...

Indians scramble for supplies as lockdown begins

Indians scramble for supplies as lockdown begins

REUTERS 2020-03-25 11:46:35

Indians crowded grocery stores and chemists on Wednesday in a struggle for essential items after prime minister Narendra Modi ordered a total lockdown for three weeks to fight a coronavirus pandemic,...

Thailand records 107 new coronavirus cases, bringing total to 934

Thailand records 107 new coronavirus cases, bringing total to 934

-- 2020-03-25 10:52:57

Thailand has recorded 107 new coronavirus cases, bringing total to 934, a health official said on Wednesday. The new cases consist of 27 patients linked to previous cases, 13 new cases including impo...

Modi locks down India for 21 days over Covid-19

Modi locks down India for 21 days over Covid-19

-- 2020-03-24 21:05:14

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has imposed a nationwide lockdown from Tuesday midnight for 21 days, as part of his government’s stringent efforts to tackle coronavirus disease Covid-19. &l...