FE ONLINE DESK 2020-03-22 14:16:41
Coronavirus cases around the world have surpassed 300,000 with deaths from the disease topping 13000. According to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University, a total of 308,257 people were infected b...
-- 2020-03-22 11:38:56
Italy recorded a jump in deaths from coronavirus of almost 800 on Saturday, taking the toll in the world’s hardest-hit country to almost 5,000. In its latest desperate effort to halt the epidem...
REUTERS 2020-03-22 11:24:26
The Spanish government said on Saturday it would do whatever was needed to combat the coronavirus pandemic and warned that "the worst is yet to come" after the national toll surpassed 1,300 deaths and...
REUTERS 2020-03-22 10:28:01
India launched a 14-hour long curfew on Sunday to limit the fast-spreading coronavirus epidemic in the country, where 315 people have so far been found to have contracted the disease. Prime minister...
Reuters 2020-03-21 18:33:48
Pakistan on Saturday suspended all international flight operations for two weeks in a bid to contain the coronavirus pandemic, the civil aviation authority said. "The Government of Pakistan has decid...
-- 2020-03-21 16:41:00
Novel coronavirus cases in India rose to 258 on Saturday after 35 fresh cases were reported in various parts of the country, the Health Ministry said, reports thehindubusinessline.com. However,...
REUTERS 2020-03-21 10:53:53
The death toll from an outbreak of coronavirus in Italy has leapt by 627 to 4,032, officials said on Friday, an increase of 18.4 per cent - by far the largest daily rise in absolute terms since the co...
-- 2020-03-21 10:37:43
South Korea reported 147 new coronavirus infections on Saturday, holding to its downward trend in daily infections from a peak in February, but concerns about new outbreaks around small clusters and p...
-- 2020-03-20 19:10:55
The minister leading the Dutch government’s fight against the coronavirus resigned on Thursday, a day after collapsing from exhaustion during a parliamentary debate on the epidemic, reports Reut...
BBC 2020-03-20 17:36:57
California has issued a "stay at home" order to residents as it tries to stem the march of the coronavirus across the most populous US state. Governor Gavin Newsom told Californians they should only...
-- 2020-03-20 17:12:30
Malaysia will deploy the army from Sunday to help enforce travel and movement curbs aimed at reining in the spread of a coronavirus, the government said, as it grapples with the highest number of infe...
-- 2020-03-20 15:49:27
Sri Lanka has re-imposed an island-wide police curfew, effective from 6:00pm local time on Friday to 6:00am on Monday, as the South Asian country steps up efforts to check the spread of the coronaviru...
-- 2020-03-20 15:40:18
More than 245,000 people have been infected by the novel coronavirus across the world and 10,028 have died, with cases and deaths outside China far exceeding those in the country where the outbreak be...
REUTERS 2020-03-20 10:47:52
The world’s richest nations poured unprecedented aid into the global economy on Thursday as coronavirus cases ballooned in the new epicentre Europe, with the number of deaths in Italy outstrippi...
REUTERS 2020-03-20 10:01:54
India hanged four men on Friday who were convicted for the rape and murder of a young woman on a bus in New Delhi in 2012, in a case that shocked the world and shamed the country over its appalling re...
-- 2020-03-19 18:46:44
The new coronavirus kills one person every 10 minutes in Iran, the health ministry spokesman tweeted on Thursday, as the death toll in the Middle East worst-affected country climbed to 1,284. "Based...
-- 2020-03-19 18:11:07
South Korea, China and Singapore are among the Asian countries facing a second coronavirus wave, spurred by people importing it from outside, reports BBC. China, where the virus first emerged, confir...
-- 2020-03-19 16:16:29
New Zealand closed its borders to all foreigners from midnight on Thursday, as it stepped up efforts to contain the spread of the coronavirus in the country, reports Reuters. Prime Minister Jac...
Reuters 2020-03-19 12:43:06
A rally of Muslim pilgrims that is drawing thousands of people to Indonesia has been stopped amid fears that it could help spread the new coronavirus, an official said. For days, authorities had been...
REUTERS 2020-03-19 12:31:54
In late January, South Korean health officials summoned representatives from more than 20 medical companies from their lunar New Year celebrations to a conference room tucked inside Seoul’s busy...
-- 2020-03-19 12:15:03
Schools in the UK are to shut from Friday until further notice as a response to the coronavirus pandemic. Schools will close except for looking after the children of keyworkers and vulnerable childre...
-- 2020-03-19 12:08:00
The number of confirmed coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in India Thursday rose to 169, India's federal health ministry said. "Total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases across India is 169," a statement i...
-- 2020-03-19 11:29:09
Beijing saw a record number of imported coronavirus cases, data released on Thursday showed, as new local transmissions in China fell to zero, putting more pressure on the capital to screen out infect...
REUTERS 2020-03-19 10:21:20
Hundreds of millions of people faced a world turned upside down on Wednesday by unprecedented emergency measures against the coronavirus pandemic that is killing the old and vulnerable and threatening...
-- 2020-03-19 00:00:00
Miners shuttered or wound down operations in Peru on Tuesday and were girding for extended supply chain disruptions in neighboring Chile as governments tightened restrictions to try to slow the spread...
Reuters 2020-03-18 17:53:50
The World Health Organization has warned of the risk that COVID-19 could overwhelm strained public health systems in sub-Saharan Africa. Here is a selection of measures countries are taking to prepare...
-- 2020-03-18 12:40:53
Malaysia went into a two-week partial lockdown on Wednesday after coronavirus infections in the country spiked to the highest in Southeast Asia, with some buyers rushing to supermarkets to stock up on...
-- 2020-03-18 11:56:53
Saudi Arabia said on Tuesday that mosques would no longer be open for the customary five daily prayers or Friday congregations, an exceptional move to limit the spread of the coronavirus which has inf...
Reuters 2020-03-18 11:31:47
Canada and the United States will announce a deal to partially close their borders on Wednesday, which will allow trade and commerce to go on, the Globe and Mail reported on Tuesday, citing sources....
-- 2020-03-18 10:33:27
The deadly coronavirus has now hit all 50 states in the US as West Virginia reported its first case of the infection on Tuesday. Announcing its first Covid-19 patient, West Virginia Governor Jim Just...
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