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India reports record rise in Covid-19 cases; Delhi cancels medical staff leave

-- 2020-06-20 21:18:56

India reported a record jump in coronavirus infections on Saturday, a day after the government in the capital New Delhi ordered hospitals to cancel any leave and have workers return to duty immediatel...

Beijing conducts COVID-19 screening on nearly 2.3 million people

Xinhua 2020-06-20 17:11:46

Beijing city had conducted nucleic acid tests on nearly 2.3 million people as of 6 a.m. Saturday in its efforts to contain the resurgence of domestically transmitted COVID-19 cases, local authorities...

Beijing tests food, parcel couriers for coronavirus as city checks widen

-- 2020-06-20 13:46:59

Officials in Beijing are carrying out nucleic acid tests on all food and parcel delivery personnel as they ramp up efforts to rein in an outbreak of the coronavirus in the Chinese capital, state-backe...

South Asians in UK more likely to die of Covid-19: Study

REUTERS 2020-06-20 12:50:24

Hospitalised Covid-19 patients of South Asian ethnicity in Britain are 20 per cent more likely to die from the disease than white people, a large-scale study said on Friday, the latest evidence that m...

India's Chennai goes into lockdown

-- 2020-06-20 12:42:15

Authorities in India's southern Tamil Nadu state imposed a fresh lockdown in the state capital of Chennai and its suburbs on Friday in wake of an increase in corronavirus Covid-19) cases. The lockdow...

There was no border intrusion: Modi

-- 2020-06-20 10:45:40

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi appeared to downplay a clash with Chinese troops in a disputed Himalayan region that left 20 Indian soldiers dead and more than 70 injured, saying on Friday there h...

India, Pakistan troops exchange fire on Kashmir LoC

-- 2020-06-19 16:34:22

Troops of India and Pakistan Friday exchanged heavy fire and targeted each other's positions on the Line of Control (LoC), dividing Kashmir, officials said. The two sides exchanged fire on LoC in Now...

New Zealand police officer shot dead during routine traffic stop

-- 2020-06-19 12:34:28

A New Zealand police officer was killed and another seriously injured on Friday after they were shot during a routine traffic stop, the country’s police commissioner said, as officials urgently...

New virus cases in New Zealand rattle public confidence

Reuters 2020-06-18 13:32:14

New Zealand recorded on Thursday its third new case of the coronavirus this week as quarantine breaches and other failures undermined public confidence days after it declared itself among the first co...

South Korea’s nuclear envoy visits US as tensions flare with North Korea

-- 2020-06-18 11:38:55

South Korea’s chief nuclear negotiator will hold talks with officials in Washington on Thursday amid flaring tensions with North Korea after Pyongyang blew up an inter-Korean liaison office and...

Chinese mainland reports 28 new confirmed virus cases

Xinhua 2020-06-18 11:03:39

Chinese health authority said Thursday that it received reports of 28 new confirmed Covid-19 cases on the Chinese mainland Wednesday, of which 24 were domestically transmitted and four were imported....

India, China want peace but blame each other after deadly border clash

REUTERS 2020-06-18 10:36:03

India and China said they wanted peace but blamed each other on Wednesday after soldiers of the two sides savagely fought each other with nail-studded clubs and stones on their Himalayan border, killi...

Hawaii meeting may help defuse China-US tensions: Experts

Global Times 2020-06-17 17:03:10

Senior officials from China and US are scheduled to meet on Wednesday in the US state of Hawaii to talk over a range of key issues like bilateral trade, Huawei and Hong Kong, sending a signal that the...

China CDC remobilises P3 lab to facilitate COVID-19 nucleic acid testing in Beijing

Global Times 2020-06-17 16:59:40

The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC) on Wednesday remobilized its mobile P3 lab to facilitate COVID-19 nucleic acid testing in Beijing amid a renewed outbreak, according t...

India awaits Modi's response to China after deaths of 20 soldiers

Reuters 2020-06-17 15:57:51

India impatiently awaited Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s response on Wednesday to the death of at least 20 soldiers in a border clash with Chinese troops as the country’s media vented its...

Australia says borders likely to stay closed until 2021

Reuters 2020-06-17 13:33:13

Australia is unlikely to reopen its border to international travellers until next year but will look to relax entry rules for students and other long-term visitors, Trade Minister Simon Birmingham sai...

Covid-19 cases surge in South Asia as countries gradually exit lockdown

-- 2020-06-17 13:01:53

South Asia has recently become a new hotspot of the Covid-19 pandemic with a sharp surge in confirmed cases after a number of countries started to ease restrictions this month for reopening the econom...

India says 20 soldiers killed in border clashes with China

Reuters 2020-06-17 09:58:18

India’s army said on Tuesday 20 of its soldiers had been killed in clashes with Chinese troops at a disputed border site, in a major escalation of a weeks-long standoff between the two Asian gia...

Singapore scientists to begin human trials of COVID-19 vaccine in August

-- 2020-06-16 16:23:11

Singapore scientists testing a COVID-19 vaccine from US firm Arcturus Therapeutics plan to start human trials in August after promising initial responses in mice, reports Reuters. More than 100 vacci...

New Zealand confirms two new cases ending virus free run

Reuters 2020-06-16 14:29:35

New Zealand on Tuesday said that it has two new cases of the coronavirus, both related to recent travel from the UK, ending a 24-day streak of no new infections in the country. The new infections are...

India says officer, two soldiers killed in 'faceoff' on border with China

REUTERS 2020-06-16 14:20:37

An Indian officer and two soldiers were killed in a “violent faceoff” with Chinese troops on the contested border, the Indian Army said on Tuesday, reporting the first casualties in decade...

North Korea 'blows up joint liaison office' with South

-- 2020-06-16 13:39:26

North Korea has blown up its joint liaison office with the South near the border town of Kaesong, South Korean officials say. The move comes just hours after the North renewed threats of military act...

WHO chief to speak at top Chinese university graduation ceremony

Reuters 2020-06-16 11:31:36

The director-general of the World Health Organization is scheduled to give a commencement speech to students at the elite Tsinghua University in Beijing, amid accusations from the United States that h...

Traffickers demand payments for Rohingyas stranded at sea

REUTERS 2020-06-16 11:13:41

People traffickers holding hundreds of Rohingya refugees at sea are demanding payments from their families before they will release them from boats off the shores of Southeast Asia, relatives and righ...

Beijing enacts more curbs to stop spread of coronavirus

Reuters 2020-06-16 11:07:18

Beijing authorities imposed more restrictions to stop the spread of a fresh outbreak of coronavirus in the Chinese capital to other provinces, banning outbound travel of high-risk people and suspendin...

North Korea threatens to send army into demilitarised border zone

-- 2020-06-16 10:34:15

North Korea's army has warned it is ready to enter the demilitarised zone dividing the two Koreas. The threat is partly in response to defector groups in the South sending propaganda material north....

Zero new COVID-19 case, fatality in Thailand

Xinhua 2020-06-15 17:09:48

Thailand on Monday reported zero new case of COVID-19, as well as no new fatality as the country moves toward further easing restrictions on high-risk business and leisure activities. Thailand on Mon...

China's job market remains stable in May

Xinhua 2020-06-15 16:50:04

China's job market remained generally stable in May, with the surveyed unemployment rate in urban areas standing at 5.9 per cent, official data showed Monday. The figure went down 0.1 percentage poin...

Taxi driver turns hearse driver as coronavirus cases in India spike

REUTERS 2020-06-15 16:25:34

The heat was already suffocating when Mohammad Aamir Khan woke up in his tiny, windowless room with only a sheer curtain for a door. He offered a brief prayer to a picture hanging above the bed of the...

Beijing virus spike continues with 36 new cases

-- 2020-06-15 14:25:23

Beijing has recorded 36 new locally-transmitted coronavirus cases, amid fears of a second wave in the Chinese capital. Another 36 cases were also recorded on Saturday. The city had previously seen no...