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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...

Tsunami warnings after magnitude 7.8 quake strikes Russia’s Kuril islands

Tsunami warnings after magnitude 7.8 quake strikes Russia’s Kuril islands

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...

Greta Thunberg says probably had COVID-19

Greta Thunberg says probably had COVID-19

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...

Coronavirus spreading in New York like ‘a bullet train’

Coronavirus spreading in New York like ‘a bullet train’

-- 2020-03-25 09:40:39

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...

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...

US states and cities desperate for coronavirus help

US states and cities desperate for coronavirus help

-- 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...

Indonesia reports biggest daily rise in coronavirus cases

Indonesia reports biggest daily rise in coronavirus cases

-- 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...

Cruise ship responsible for jump in Australia virus cases

Cruise ship responsible for jump in Australia virus cases

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...

Turkey sets shop, bus restrictions as coronavirus death toll rises to 37

Turkey sets shop, bus restrictions as coronavirus death toll rises to 37

-- 2020-03-24 12:45:39

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’...

China's Hubei province to remove travel bans starting March 25

China's Hubei province to remove travel bans starting March 25

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...

Global coronavirus death toll hits 16,510

Global coronavirus death toll hits 16,510

-- 2020-03-24 10:31:03

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...

Britain imposes lockdown to combat spread of coronavirus

Britain imposes lockdown to combat spread of coronavirus

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...

China’s new coronavirus infections double due to imported cases

China’s new coronavirus infections double due to imported cases

-- 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...

Myanmar reports first cases of coronavirus

Myanmar reports first cases of coronavirus

-- 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...

Hungary seeks indefinite extension to state of emergency

Hungary seeks indefinite extension to state of emergency

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...

Coronavirus: Death toll in Italy reaches 5,476

Coronavirus: Death toll in Italy reaches 5,476

-- 2020-03-23 17:41:33

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...

UN plans global fund for coronavirus patients

UN plans global fund for coronavirus patients

-- 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...

Man fined $33,000 in Taiwan for breaching quarantine

Man fined $33,000 in Taiwan for breaching quarantine

-- 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-...

Germany reports 22,672 coronavirus cases, 86 deaths

Germany reports 22,672 coronavirus cases, 86 deaths

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...

COVID-19: Global death toll hits 14,655

COVID-19: Global death toll hits 14,655

-- 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...

US axed CDC expert job in China months before virus outbreak

US axed CDC expert job in China months before virus outbreak

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...

New Delhi under lockdown

New Delhi under lockdown

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...

Philippines reports eight new coronavirus deaths

Philippines reports eight new coronavirus deaths

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...

23 killed in Colombia prison amid tension over virus

23 killed in Colombia prison amid tension over virus

-- 2020-03-23 11:20:51

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...

Syria confirms first coronavirus case as fears grow it could spread

Syria confirms first coronavirus case as fears grow it could spread

-- 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...

Thailand reports 122 new coronavirus cases, raising total to 721

Thailand reports 122 new coronavirus cases, raising total to 721

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...

Saudi Arabia imposes curfew to curb coronavirus spread

Saudi Arabia imposes curfew to curb coronavirus spread

-- 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...

Spain's coronavirus deaths surpass 1,700

Spain's coronavirus deaths surpass 1,700

-- 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...

Army patrols Malaysian streets as coronavirus cases spike

Army patrols Malaysian streets as coronavirus cases spike

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...