-- 2020-05-12 10:31:09
The Japanese Health Ministry is set to approve antigen coronavirus testing kits on Wednesday, a ministry official said on Tuesday, in a move to boost the number of diagnostic tests available to battle...
FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-05-11 19:56:51
As many as 84 local and international human rights organisations expressed their concerns over violence and hate speech against Rohingya refugees and asylum seekers in Malaysia. They expressed concer...
Reuters 2020-05-11 15:29:37
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will on Monday (UK standard time) give details of how to get the economy back to work, after his attempt to plot a nuanced exit from the coronavirus lockdown promp...
-- 2020-05-11 14:59:41
One Iranian warship accidentally struck another with a missile during an exercise, killing 19 sailors and wounding 15 others, Iran’s navy said on Monday. The incident took place during training...
Reuters 2020-05-11 14:19:37
Authorities at kindergartens and primary schools in Vietnam took children’s temperatures at the gates when they re-opened on Monday from a months-long closure over the coronavirus pandemic, foll...
-- 2020-05-11 13:08:33
US Vice President Mike Pence has been distancing himself from others, but is not in self-quarantine, after his press secretary tested positive for the coronavirus, an administration official said Sund...
-- 2020-05-11 10:58:50
A worker at a fish-processing factory in Ghana’s Atlantic seafront city of Tema infected 533 other workers at the facility with the coronavirus, Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo said in a...
-- 2020-05-11 10:40:34
China reported 17 new COVID-19 cases in the mainland on May 10, rising from a day earlier and marking the highest daily increase since April 28, highlighting the difficulty in stamping out the disease...
Reuters 2020-05-10 19:31:32
India has issued guidelines to ensure the safe restart of manufacturing facilities, after weeks’ long nationwide lockdown aimed at stemming the spread of the novel coronavirus. The guidelines c...
-- 2020-05-10 13:22:08
Malaysia’s government extended the time frame for movement and business curbs by another four weeks to June 9, amid a gradual reopening of economic activity stunted by the coronavirus pandemic....
Reuters 2020-05-10 11:48:07
China’s National Health Commission reported 14 new confirmed coronavirus cases on May 9, the highest number since April 28, including the first for more than a month in the city of Wuhan where t...
-- 2020-05-10 10:53:37
South Korea reported 34 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, the highest daily number in a month, after a small outbreak emerged around a slew of nightclubs that a confirmed patient had visited. Of the n...
REUTERS 2020-05-10 10:43:20
Three key US officials guiding the coronavirus response were in self-quarantine on Saturday after coming into contact with someone who had tested positive for COVID-19, according to spokesmen and medi...
Reuters 2020-05-10 10:16:03
Former President Barack Obama described President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic as “chaotic” in a conference call with former members of his administration, a s...
FE Online Report 2020-05-09 18:59:38
The UN Secretary General General Antonio Guterres on Saturday expressed deep concern over the ‘unleashing of a tsunami of hate and xenophobia, scapegoating and scare-mongering’, and assaul...
-- 2020-05-09 18:25:38
The British government has told airlines it will introduce a 14-day quarantine period for most people arriving from abroad to try to avoid a second peak of the coronavirus pandemic, an association rep...
-- 2020-05-09 17:44:18
Almost three-quarters of US domestic workers have lost their jobs due to the new coronavirus, with most unable to pay rent and worried about buying food, researchers found, calling for broader governm...
-- 2020-05-09 17:28:27
Hackers linked to Iran have targeted staff at US drugmaker Gilead Sciences Inc in recent weeks, according to publicly-available web archives reviewed by Reuters and three cybersecurity researchers, as...
-- 2020-05-09 17:04:46
China will reform its disease prevention and control system to address weaknesses exposed by the coronavirus outbreak, a senior health official said on Saturday. China has been criticised domesticall...
-- 2020-05-09 16:41:23
The United States issued a new rule on Friday tightening visa guidelines for Chinese journalists, saying it was in response to the treatment of US journalists in China, a shift that comes amid tension...
-- 2020-05-09 13:40:22
Kenya and Uganda were hit by a power blackout on Saturday after what distributor Kenya Power said was a system disturbance in the transmission grid. The neighbouring countries’ grids are interc...
-- 2020-05-09 12:03:38
Thailand reported four new coronavirus cases and one more death on Saturday, bringing the total to 3,004 cases and 56 deaths since the outbreak started in January. A 68-year-old man from Bangkok died...
-- 2020-05-09 10:38:06
Confirmed coronavirus (COVID-19) cases around the world stood at 4,012,837 on Saturday morning The virus has so far killed 276,216 people, reports UNB citing the Associated Press. Currently, 2,351,4...
-- 2020-05-08 23:06:18
Italy on Friday became the third country in the world to record 30,000 deaths from the coronavirus, reporting 243 new fatalities compared with a daily tally of 274 the day before. Italy’s total...
-- 2020-05-08 21:10:24
China is open to an independent investigation to determine the origins of the coronavirus now sweeping the world, Chinese ambassador to Berlin told a German magazine on Friday According to Reuters, t...
-- 2020-05-08 20:47:30
Kuwait will enact a ‘total curfew’ from 1300 GMT on Sunday through to May 30 to help curb the spread of the new coronavirus. According to Reuters, further details of the curfew will be an...
-- 2020-05-08 20:09:31
A wholesale market in the central Chinese city of Wuhan played a role in the outbreak of the novel coronavirus last year, as the source or possibly as an "amplifying setting", the World Health Organiz...
Reuters 2020-05-08 16:47:54
For Claudia Alejandra, unemployment has become a full-time job. Since losing her position at the makeup counter at the Macy’s department store in Orlando, Florida, on March 28, Alejandra spends...
REUTERS 2020-05-08 13:44:03
For Claudia Alejandra, unemployment has become a full-time job. Since losing her position at the makeup counter at the Macy’s department store in Orlando, Florida, on March 28, Alejandra spends...
AP 2020-05-08 11:56:20
A train in India crashed into a group of migrant workers walking along the railroad tracks on to their way back to their home state on Friday, killing at least 14, officials and local media said. The...
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