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Singapore reports 931 new coronavirus cases, taking total to 13,624

Singapore reports 931 new coronavirus cases, taking total to 13,624

-- 2020-04-26 13:09:37

Singapore registered 931 new coronavirus infections, its health ministry said on Sunday, taking the city-state’s total number of COVID-19 cases to 13,624. The vast majority of the new cases are...

Train possibly belonging to Kim spotted in resort town: Think tank

Train possibly belonging to Kim spotted in resort town: Think tank

-- 2020-04-26 11:03:31

A special train possibly belonging to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was spotted this week at a resort town in the country, according to satellite images reviewed by a Washington-based North Korea mo...

Xi leads China's search for safest path to growth amid COVID-19 control

Xi leads China's search for safest path to growth amid COVID-19 control

Xinhua 2020-04-24 18:21:21

At a time when the world economy is plagued by the coronavirus pandemic, policymakers across the globe are faced with the same dilemma: how to get the economy back on track amid containment of the vir...

Mystery of India's lower death rates seems to defy coronavirus trend

Mystery of India's lower death rates seems to defy coronavirus trend

REUTERS 2020-04-24 15:34:29

Parts of India have recorded dramatic falls in mortality rates after a nationwide lockdown was imposed to fight the new coronavirus, suggesting there has not been an undetected surge in virus-related...

South Asia coronavirus cases top 37,000

South Asia coronavirus cases top 37,000

-- 2020-04-24 14:46:25

South Asia’s coronavirus infections have crossed 37,000, with more than half in India, official data showed on Thursday, complicating the task of governments looking to scale back lockdowns that...

Pakistani doctors urge govt to reimpose mosque restrictions

Pakistani doctors urge govt to reimpose mosque restrictions

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...

Italian cruise ship in Japan has 48 coronavirus cases

Italian cruise ship in Japan has 48 coronavirus cases

-- 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...

India suspends coronavirus antibody tests

India suspends coronavirus antibody tests

-- 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...

UN condemns killing of WHO official in Myanmar

UN condemns killing of WHO official in Myanmar

-- 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...

‘Indian curb on Chinese investment will harm own economic dev’

‘Indian curb on Chinese investment will harm own economic dev’

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...

Recovered, almost: China's early patients unable to shed coronavirus

Recovered, almost: China's early patients unable to shed coronavirus

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...

India’s COVID-19 death toll rises to 640

India’s COVID-19 death toll rises to 640

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...

 Twenty held for stopping funeral of physician died of Covid-19 in India

 Twenty held for stopping funeral of physician died of Covid-19 in India

-- 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...

154 Turkish nationals leave Dhaka by charter flight

154 Turkish nationals leave Dhaka by charter flight

-- 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...

S Arabia suspends praying in the Two Holy Mosques

S Arabia suspends praying in the Two Holy Mosques

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...

Northwest China sees return of coronavirus cases

Northwest China sees return of coronavirus cases

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...

Indonesia bans Ramadan mass exodus tradition to curb coronavirus spread

Indonesia bans Ramadan mass exodus tradition to curb coronavirus spread

-- 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...

Global COVID-19 deaths top 170,000

Global COVID-19 deaths top 170,000

-- 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...

G77, China voice support for WHO in COVID-19 fight: statement

G77, China voice support for WHO in COVID-19 fight: statement

Xinhua 2020-04-20 19:01:37

The Group of 77 (G77) and China on Sunday issued a statement expressing their support for the World Health Organization (WHO) in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. "The Group of 77 and China is...

Wuhan issues $71m to spur on consumption

Wuhan issues $71m to spur on consumption

Global Times 2020-04-20 18:00:06

For more than two months, residents in Wuhan, Central China's Hubei Province, were required to stay home to stop the spread of the coronavirus; now, officials in the city are literally paying resident...

Publications supplied to quarantined people for pastime in Kuwait

Publications supplied to quarantined people for pastime in Kuwait

-- 2020-04-20 17:17:24

Workers have been preparing publications to be distributed to quarantined people in the National Library of Kuwait in Kuwait City, Kuwait, reports Xinhua.  Kuwaiti National Council for Culture,...

Top Saudi religious authority urges Muslims to pray at home during Ramadan

Top Saudi religious authority urges Muslims to pray at home during Ramadan

REUTERS 2020-04-20 14:53:58

Saudi Arabia's highest religious body, the Council of Senior Scholars, urged Muslims worldwide to pray at home during Ramadan if their countries require social distancing to curb the spread of the cor...

South Koreans return to work as social distancing rules ease

South Koreans return to work as social distancing rules ease

-- 2020-04-20 13:41:28

South Koreans are returning to work and crowding shopping malls, parks, golf courses and some restaurants as South Korea relaxes social distancing rules amid a continued downward trend in coronavirus...

New Zealand extends lockdown by a week

New Zealand extends lockdown by a week

-- 2020-04-20 10:56:59

New Zealand will extend the ongoing coronavirus lockdown measures by a week, after which it will move to a lower level of restrictions, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday. “New Zealan...

In shadow of coronavirus, Muslims face a Ramadan like never before

In shadow of coronavirus, Muslims face a Ramadan like never before

REUTERS 2020-04-20 09:52:20

Days before the holy fasting month of Ramadan begins, the Islamic world is grappling with an untimely paradox of the new coronavirus pandemic: enforced separation at a time when socialising is almost...

Anti-Netanyahu rally draws thousands under coronavirus curbs

Anti-Netanyahu rally draws thousands under coronavirus curbs

-- 2020-04-20 09:46:28

Wearing face masks, waving black flags and keeping two yards apart, thousands of Israelis demonstrated against prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu under strict coronavirus restrictions on Sunday. Netan...

China testing its digital currency

China testing its digital currency

Global Times 2020-04-19 21:34:38

China's official digital currency is undergoing testing and has not been officially released, according to the central bank. Insiders said the trial run will be piloted within a small range of banks...

UN experts want to blacklist 14 ships over NKorea sanctions

UN experts want to blacklist 14 ships over NKorea sanctions

AP 2020-04-19 18:31:35

UN experts have recommended blacklisting 14 vessels for violating sanctions against North Korea in a report that accuses the country of increasing illegal coal exports, imports of petroleum products a...

Supporting WHO means safeguarding multilateralism: Chinese FM

Supporting WHO means safeguarding multilateralism: Chinese FM

Xinhua 2020-04-19 18:26:59

Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Saturday that at the critical moment when the world is combating the COVID-19 pandemic, supporting the World Health Organization (WHO) and...

China’s FTC-2000G multirole combat aircraft bags first export contract

China’s FTC-2000G multirole combat aircraft bags first export contract

Global Times 2020-04-19 18:18:36

With its first export contract for delivery of the FTC-2000G multirole combat aircraft to an undisclosed Southeast Asian country, Guizhou Aviation Industry Corp can expect a surge in interested custom...