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24 migrants die in India road mishap

24 migrants die in India road mishap

-- 2020-05-16 13:26:08

At least 24 people were killed and more than 35 were injured when two trucks collided with each other in northern India on Saturday, local officials confirmed said. The accident occurred in the Aurai...

India surpasses China in coronavirus cases

India surpasses China in coronavirus cases

-- 2020-05-16 12:16:43

India’s coronavirus (COVID-19) cases have surpassed China’s with the health ministry on Saturday reporting the spike to 85,940 cases with 2,752 deaths. In total, China has reported 4,633...

‘1,000 Rohingyas stranded at sea as Southeast Asia seals borders’

‘1,000 Rohingyas stranded at sea as Southeast Asia seals borders’

-- 2020-05-15 20:57:33

At least 1,000 Rohingya are stranded at sea as Southeast Asian nations tighten their borders to keep out the new coronavirus, Amnesty International said on Friday, urging action to ensure they were no...

Delayed survey data blurs India’s coronavirus picture

Delayed survey data blurs India’s coronavirus picture

-- 2020-05-15 16:01:24

India has lost two weeks in its bid to get a picture of the spread of the coronavirus in its population because of poor Chinese testing kits, a member of a national task force said, complicating a dec...

Mexico at ‘peak moment’ of coronavirus crisis after biggest daily rise in cases

Mexico at ‘peak moment’ of coronavirus crisis after biggest daily rise in cases

-- 2020-05-15 15:00:30

Mexico has reached "the peak moment" of its coronavirus outbreak, officials said, as the country recorded its largest one-day rise in cases so far. More than 2,409 new cases of the virus were confirm...

Russia reports 10,598 new coronavirus infections

Russia reports 10,598 new coronavirus infections

-- 2020-05-15 14:23:46

Russia on Friday reported 10,598 new confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus, pushing its nationwide case tally to 262,843. Russia’s coronavirus taskforce said 113 people had died over the las...

India’s COVID-19 cases surpass 80,000 mark, deaths rise to 2,649

India’s COVID-19 cases surpass 80,000 mark, deaths rise to 2,649

-- 2020-05-15 11:35:33

The total number of COVID-19 cases in India reached 81,970 and the number of deaths rose to 2,649 on Friday, said the official data issued by the federal health ministry. The ministry said 100 new de...

Trump threatens to cut ties with China over coronavirus

Trump threatens to cut ties with China over coronavirus

REUTERS 2020-05-15 10:58:57

US President Donald Trump signalled a further deterioration of his relationship with China over the novel coronavirus, saying he has no interest in speaking to President Xi Jinping right now and going...

Global COVID-19 death toll tops 300,000

Global COVID-19 death toll tops 300,000

-- 2020-05-15 09:48:51

The number of deaths linked to coronavirus (COVID-19) in just four months is now equal to about three-quarters of the number of people who die annually from malaria, one of the world’s most dead...

India to provide free food grains to migrant workers

India to provide free food grains to migrant workers

Reuters 2020-05-14 20:26:17

India will provide free food grains to millions of migrant workers hardest hit by a weeks-long lockdown as well as offer employment under a rural jobs programme, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman sa...

More than one-third of hospitalised coronavirus patients develop kidney injury

More than one-third of hospitalised coronavirus patients develop kidney injury

FE Online Report 2020-05-14 19:50:17

Over a third of patients treated for Covid-19 in a large New York medical system developed acute kidney injury, and nearly 15 per cent required dialysis, US researchers reported on Thursday, reports R...

Coronavirus vaccine possible in early 2021, says EU agency

Coronavirus vaccine possible in early 2021, says EU agency

Reuters 2020-05-14 15:55:16

A vaccine to counter the new coronavirus could be approved in about a year in an “optimistic” scenario, an agency which approves medicines for the European Union said on Thursday. The Eur...

Japan expected to lift emergency in most areas except Tokyo

Japan expected to lift emergency in most areas except Tokyo

-- 2020-05-14 14:44:32

Japan is expected to lift a state of emergency across a large part of the country on Thursday but the capital Tokyo will likely remain under restrictions until there is a convincing containment of the...

US envoy threatens to trigger return of UN sanctions on Iran

US envoy threatens to trigger return of UN sanctions on Iran

Reuters 2020-05-14 13:59:42

The United States publicly threatened on Wednesday to trigger a return of all United Nations sanctions on Iran if the UN Security Council does not extend an arms embargo on Tehran that is due to expir...

Myanmar's army says it is investigating soldiers over video of abuses

Myanmar's army says it is investigating soldiers over video of abuses

Reuters 2020-05-14 11:54:56

Myanmar’s army said on Wednesday it was investigating soldiers filmed beating and threatening to kill suspected insurgents in the western state of Rakhine, where dozens of people have been kille...

Canada, US likely to extend travel restrictions until June 21

Canada, US likely to extend travel restrictions until June 21

-- 2020-05-14 11:11:11

Canada and the United States appear likely to extend a ban on non-essential travel until June 21 amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, a Canadian government source and a top US official said on Wednesd...

Coronavirus may never go away, WHO warns

Coronavirus may never go away, WHO warns

Reuters 2020-05-14 10:36:01

The coronavirus that causes COVID-19 could become endemic like HIV, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday, warning against any attempt to predict how long it would keep circulating and...

Maternity ward massacre shakes Afghanistan

Maternity ward massacre shakes Afghanistan

REUTERS 2020-05-14 10:05:47

After struggling to get pregnant for years, Zainab, 27, gave birth to a baby boy on Tuesday morning at a small hospital in the southwestern corner of Kabul. She was overjoyed and named the boy Omid, m...

Malaysia detains 1,368 undocumented migrants

Malaysia detains 1,368 undocumented migrants

-- 2020-05-13 20:12:43

Malaysia has detained 1,368 undocumented migrants in an area under lockdown in the latest such raid despite fears the crackdown could push vulnerable people into hiding and increase the risk of corona...

Russia suspends use of ventilator type after hospital fires: Regulator

Russia suspends use of ventilator type after hospital fires: Regulator

-- 2020-05-13 14:26:01

Russia has suspended the use of Russian-made medical ventilators of a certain model manufactured after April 1, a state healthcare regulator said on Wednesday, following two hospital fires reported to...

Israeli police arrest 320 over coronavirus breach at Jewish festival

Israeli police arrest 320 over coronavirus breach at Jewish festival

-- 2020-05-13 13:48:32

Israeli police arrested 320 people at a Jewish bonfire festival celebrating an ancient sage, after worshippers rioted over coronavirus restrictions that denied them access to his tomb, officers said o...

Pandemic may give Asia-Pacific’s oceans a chance to recover: UN report

Pandemic may give Asia-Pacific’s oceans a chance to recover: UN report

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-05-13 12:03:56

The well-being of oceans in the Asia-Pacific region are edging closer to a tipping point due to the unprecedented pace of marine pollution, overfishing and climate change in recent years. However, a n...

40 die in Afghanistan militant attacks

40 die in Afghanistan militant attacks

-- 2020-05-13 09:49:07

Gunmen disguised as police attacked a hospital in the Afghan capital Kabul on Tuesday, killing 16 people including two newborn babies from a maternity clinic run by the international humanitarian or...

Russia has second highest coronavirus cases in world

Russia has second highest coronavirus cases in world

-- 2020-05-12 20:42:35

With 232,243 COVID-19 cases, Russia now has the second highest number of cases in the world after the United States, according to the Johns Hopkins University in the United States, but with 2,116 deat...

Dubai turns world's tallest building into coronavirus charity box

Dubai turns world's tallest building into coronavirus charity box

-- 2020-05-12 20:32:36

The world's tallest building, Dubai's 828-metre Burj Khalifa, has become a glowing charity donation box, raising money for food for United Arab Emirates residents suffering the economic impact of the...

China announces new tariff waivers for some US imports

China announces new tariff waivers for some US imports

-- 2020-05-12 16:16:42

China announced on Tuesday a new list of 79 US products eligible for waivers from retaliatory tariffs imposed at the height of the bilateral trade war, amid continued pressure on Beijing to boost impo...

All mosques in Iran to reopen temporarily on Tuesday

All mosques in Iran to reopen temporarily on Tuesday

Reuters 2020-05-12 11:56:49

All mosques in Iran will reopen temporarily on Tuesday, a further step in the government’s plans to ease restrictions that aimed to contain the spread of the new coronavirus, the official IRIB n...

Reopening continues despite global alarm over second coronavirus wave

Reopening continues despite global alarm over second coronavirus wave

REUTERS 2020-05-12 11:47:11

Global alarm was sounded on Monday over a potential second wave of coronavirus cases after Germany, relatively successful in slowing the outbreak, reported that infections had accelerated again after...

India's COVID-19 case count crosses 70,000-mark

India's COVID-19 case count crosses 70,000-mark

-- 2020-05-12 11:00:52

India's federal health ministry has said 87 new deaths due to COVID-19, besides fresh 3,604 positive cases were reported since Monday in the country, taking the number of deaths to 2,293 and total cas...

India looks to ease lockdown even as coronavirus infections jump

India looks to ease lockdown even as coronavirus infections jump

REUTERS 2020-05-12 10:56:22

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday the country would look to ease a nearly seven-week lockdown aimed at preventing the spread of the novel coronavirus, despite also reporting its bigg...