Reuters 2020-04-23 13:22:29
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that the United States has called on China to permanently close its wildlife wet markets, citing links between those markets and zoonotic diseases. The new coro...
Reuters 2020-04-23 11:21:14
Leading Pakistani doctors on Wednesday urged the government and clerics to reverse a decision to allow prayer congregations at mosques during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, warning that the spread...
-- 2020-04-23 11:01:00
Nearly 50 crew members on an Italian cruise ship docked for repairs in Japan’s Nagasaki have tested positive for the new coronavirus, raising concern about the strain on the city’s hospita...
REUTERS 2020-04-23 10:34:30
On January 21, the day the first US case of coronavirus was reported, the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services appeared on Fox News to report the latest on the disease as it ravage...
Reuters 2020-04-23 09:28:26
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday that he hoped the Trump administration would reconsider its suspension of funding, but that his main focus was on ending the pandemi...
-- 2020-04-22 18:53:28
India has ordered a pause in testing for antibodies to the coronavirus because of concern over the accuracy, health officials said on Wednesday, complicating the fight against the epidemic as its tall...
-- 2020-04-22 17:15:32
Germany's vaccines regulator approved live human testing of a potential vaccine against the Covid-19 virus developed by German biotech company BioNTech, the regulator said in a statement on Wednesday,...
-- 2020-04-22 17:14:30
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has condemned the death of a World Health Organisation worker in Myanmar's Rakhine state who was killed while transporting swabs from patients to be tested for co...
Global Times 2020-04-22 16:44:38
India's move to amend its foreign direct investment (FDI) rules, which is widely seen as targeting China, will weigh on the confidence and expansion of Chinese investors, who have been playing an ac...
Reuters 2020-04-22 16:12:25
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday faced a call for an inquiry into his government’s handling of the coronavirus crisis after failing to fully explain partial death data, limited...
-- 2020-04-22 14:53:31
Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Wednesday his government plans to begin winding down the coronavirus lockdown measures in the second half of May. Restrictions will be eased slowly...
REUTERS 2020-04-22 12:48:49
Dressed in a hazmat suit, two masks and a face shield, Du Mingjun knocked on the mahogany door of a flat in a suburban district of Wuhan on a recent morning. A man wearing a single mask opened the do...
Xinhua 2020-04-22 12:06:08
Indian health ministry Wednesday morning said 37 new deaths of COVID-19, besides an additional 999 positive cases were reported since Tuesday evening across the country, taking the number of deaths to...
-- 2020-04-22 10:09:10
Missouri on Tuesday became the first US state to sue the Chinese government over its handling of the coronavirus, saying that China’s response to the outbreak that originated in Wuhan city led t...
-- 2020-04-22 09:56:58
Global coronavirus infections surpassed 2.5 million on Tuesday, according to a Reuters tally, with US cases surpassing 800,000. The figure includes more than 170,000 deaths, two-thirds of which have...
-- 2020-04-22 09:37:11
President Donald Trump has said his new US immigration ban would last 60 days and apply to those seeking ‘green cards’ for permanent residency in an effort to protect Americans seeking to...
Reuters 2020-04-22 09:12:50
The US Senate on Tuesday unanimously approved $484 billion in fresh relief for the US economy and hospitals hammered by the coronavirus pandemic, sending the measure to the House of Representatives fo...
-- 2020-04-21 21:38:07
Britain is marking Queen Elizabeth II’s 94th birthday with silence Tuesday, as the nation in lockdown amid the COVID-19 pandemic forgoes the usual gun salutes and ringing of bells. According to...
Reuters 2020-04-21 18:52:36
Italy will announce before the end of this week its plans for the gradual reopening from a lockdown imposed to fight the coronavirus emergency that will be applied starting from May 4, Prime Minister...
-- 2020-04-21 18:50:03
At least 20 people have been arrested in south India for violently preventing the burial of a prominent doctor who died of Covid-19, reports BBC. Dr Simon Hercules' friends and family were attacked o...
-- 2020-04-21 16:59:53
The number of people facing acute food insecurity could nearly double this year to 265 million due to the economic fallout of COVID-19, the United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday,...
-- 2020-04-21 16:28:19
A total of 154 Turkish citizens, who were stranded in Dhaka due to COVID-19 pandemic left, the capital on Tuesday by a charter flight while the first special flight taking British visitors to Lo...
-- 2020-04-21 15:33:35
Nigerian airports will remain closed to international flights for another two weeks from Thursday as part of measures to control the spread of the novel coronavirus in the country, said aviation minis...
Reuters 2020-04-21 15:16:55
Saudi Arabia has extended the suspension of praying in the Grand Mosque and Prophet’s Mosque during the fasting month of Ramadan to stem the spread of the coronavirus, the Presidency of the Two...
Reuters 2020-04-21 12:34:03
A northwestern Chinese province on the frontline of the fight against coronavirus reported on Tuesday its first cases in nearly three weeks, all involving travellers from overseas, as imported infecti...
-- 2020-04-21 12:31:59
The number of people officially identified as infected with coronavirus in Italy has fallen for the first time since the country's outbreak began, authorities have said. As of Monday, there were 108,...
-- 2020-04-21 10:39:11
Indonesia will ban the mass exodus tradition, locally known as ‘mudik,’ at the end of the Muslim fasting month in May in a bid to curb the spread of coronavirus in the Southeast Asian coun...
-- 2020-04-21 10:10:17
The global death toll from coronavirus (COVID-19) reached 170,435 on Monday morning. So far, 2,481,253 cases have been confirmed around the world after disease was first reported in China in December...
-- 2020-04-21 09:46:02
The World Health Organization warned on Tuesday that any lifting of lockdowns to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus must be gradual, and if restrictions were to be relaxed too soon, there wou...
Reuters 2020-04-21 09:21:28
US President Donald Trump said on Monday he will be signing an executive order to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States amid the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. “In light of the...
© 2024 - All Rights with The Financial Express