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,...
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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...
Reuters 2020-03-25 10:38:08
US authorities put out tsunami warnings on Wednesday after an earthquake of magnitude 7.8 struck off Russia’s Kuril Islands, but meteorological officials in Japan issued no alerts, although they...
Reuters 2020-03-25 10:21:40
Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg said on Tuesday that while self-isolating after recent travels in Europe she probably came down with COVID-19, and urged other young people to stay at home too if...
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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has pleaded for medical supplies, warning Covid-19 is spreading in his state faster than "a bullet train". "The apex is higher than we thought and the apex is sooner th...
-- 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...
-- 2020-03-24 19:26:53
Several more US governors on Monday joined the procession of states ordering millions of Americans to stay at home to slow the spread of the coronavirus, while President Trump signalled he is consider...
-- 2020-03-24 18:40:14
Indonesia on Tuesday confirmed 107 new coronavirus cases, the biggest daily increase to date in the Southeast Asian country, bringing the total number of cases to 686, Health Ministry official Achmad...
Reuters 2020-03-24 13:06:00
Australia reported a jump in coronavirus cases on Tuesday that was almost entirely due to passengers who disembarked a cruise ship in Sydney several days ago, prompting widespread criticism of the off...
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Turkey imposed restrictions on Tuesday on grocery store opening hours and numbers of shop customers and bus passengers, adding to steps to combat the spread of the coronavirus after the country’...
Reuters 2020-03-24 11:25:54
The Health Commission for China’s Hubei province said on Tuesday it will remove all travel restrictions in and out of the province on March 25, with the exception of the city of Wuhan, the provi...
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The global death toll from coronavirus or COVID-19 reached 16,510 on Tuesday -- a mortality rate of 14 per cent. The virus has so far infected 378,842 people around the world, according to worldomete...
Reuters 2020-03-24 10:01:49
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson ordered Britons on Monday to stay at home to halt the spread of coronavirus, imposing curbs on everyday life without precedent in peacetime. All but essential sho...
-- 2020-03-24 09:51:33
Mainland China saw a doubling in new coronavirus cases driven by a jump in infected travelers returning home from overseas, raising the risk of transmissions in Chinese cities and provinces that had s...
-- 2020-03-24 09:38:42
Myanmar reported its first confirmed cases of coronavirus in two men who had recently travelled to the United States and the United Kingdom. The Southeast Asian nation had been the most populous coun...
AP 2020-03-23 19:32:19
The Hungarian government is seeking to extend indefinitely the state of emergency introduced on March 11 because of the coronavirus epidemic, leading some to fear an unjustified power grab and an eros...
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The coronavirus epidemic continued to spread in locked-down Italy on Sunday with total cumulative number of infected cases reaching 59,138 and deaths reaching 5,476, according to the latest data relea...
-- 2020-03-23 16:18:22
The United Nations will create a fund to support the treatment of coronavirus patients worldwide, Norway's foreign ministry said on Monday. "A multi-donor fund under UN auspices will provide predicta...
-- 2020-03-23 16:13:30
One man in Taiwan had a particularly expensive night out after authorities fined him $33,000 (£28,480) for violating his quarantine to go clubbing, reports BBC. The man was supposed to be self-...
Reuters 2020-03-23 15:19:50
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany has risen to 22,672 and 86 people have died from the disease, a tally by public health agency Robert Koch Institute (RKI) showed on Monday. That c...
-- 2020-03-23 13:56:53
The death toll from COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus SARS-Cov-2, has reached 14,655 globally. It has so far infected 337,570 people around the world, UNB reported citing worldometer.com that...
REUTERS 2020-03-23 13:28:04
Several months before the coronavirus pandemic began, the Trump administration eliminated a key American public health position in Beijing intended to help detect disease outbreaks in China, Reuters h...
Reuters 2020-03-23 12:30:54
New Delhi will be under lockdown until March 31, the Indian capital’s government announced on Sunday, seeking to keep citizens indoors to prevent the spread of coronavirus and giving police powe...
Reuters 2020-03-23 12:10:13
The Philippines’ health ministry on Monday confirmed eight new deaths because of the coronavirus outbreak and 16 more infections. This brings country’s total deaths to 33 and confirmed ca...
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At least 23 people have died in one of Bogotá's largest jails after what the authorities are calling a mass breakout attempt amid rising tensions over coronavirus. Colombia's Justice Minister...
-- 2020-03-23 11:14:05
War-ravaged Syria on Sunday confirmed its first case of the coronavirus after weeks of rejecting opposition allegations that the disease had already reached a country with a wrecked health system and...
Reuters 2020-03-23 11:00:02
Thailand has 122 new coronavirus cases, raising the total to 721, a health ministry spokesman said on Monday at a news conference. The new cases include 20 patients linked to previous cases, 10 new i...
-- 2020-03-23 09:57:55
Saudi Arabia will impose a nationwide curfew starting on Monday after reporting a jump of almost a quarter in coronavirus cases, while the United Arab Emirates will suspend all passenger and transit f...
-- 2020-03-22 18:43:15
Spain's death toll from coronavirus soared to 1,720 on Sunday from 1,326 the day before, according to latest data from the health ministry. The one-day rise in deaths of 394 was higher than the previ...
Reuters 2020-03-22 14:58:50
Malaysia deployed the army on Sunday to enforce a two-week curb on travel in a country that has the highest number of coronavirus cases in Southeast Asia, most of them linked to a mass religious gathe...
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