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-- 2020-03-29 16:26:07
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked the nation's poor for forgiveness on Sunday, as the economic and human toll from his 21-day nationwide lockdown deepens and criticism mounts about a lack of a...
REUTERS 2020-03-29 15:47:28
When Satyaki Mitra’s father developed a mild fever in mid-March, the graduate student in Philadelphia wasn’t especially worried. He told his 57-year-old father, living in the eastern India...
-- 2020-03-29 14:17:47
Saudi Arabia shut down entry and exit into the Jeddah governorate and brought forward a curfew there to begin at 3 pm local time (1200 GMT), state news agency SPA said on Sunday. The curfew in Jeddah...
Reuters 2020-03-29 13:35:00
North Korea fired what appeared to be two short-range ballistic missiles into the ocean off its east coast on Sunday, the latest in an unprecedented flurry of launches that South Korea decried as &ldq...
-- 2020-03-29 13:05:05
India said on Saturday it was planning to turn some railway coaches into isolation wards for patients with coronavirus, as authorities scramble to prepare the country’s health infrastructure for...
Reuters 2020-03-28 20:37:52
India said on Saturday it was planning to turn some railway coaches into isolation wards for patients with coronavirus, as authorities scramble to prepare the country's health infrastructure for an ex...
AP 2020-03-28 18:39:20
Indian authorities sent a fleet of buses to the outskirts of the capital on Saturday to meet an exodus of migrant workers desperately trying to reach their home villages during the world's largest cor...
-- 2020-03-28 18:09:37
Through decades of conflict, Dr Haidar Hantoush has watched wounded soldiers and civilians flood into Iraq's emergency wards. But he's never been so scared. "Violence we can just about handle. Patien...
-- 2020-03-28 15:52:36
The city in China where the coronavirus pandemic began, Wuhan, has partially re-opened after more than two months of isolation, reports BBC. Crowds of passengers were pictured arriving at Wuhan train...
-- 2020-03-28 15:23:01
Tokyo has confirmed more than 50 new coronavirus infections, a record daily increase, public broadcaster NHK reported on Saturday as the governor of Japan’s capital urged citizens to stay indoor...
-- 2020-03-28 10:31:10
China on Saturday reported no locally transmitted coronavirus infections for the previous day and a small reduction in new cases involving travellers from overseas, as new restrictions on the entry of...
BBC 2020-03-27 21:00:34
China has announced a temporary ban on all foreign visitors, even if they have visas or residence permits. The country is also limiting Chinese and foreign airlines to one flight per week, and flight...
-- 2020-03-27 15:34:11
As the coronavirus spread across Asia in February, Indian manufacturers of personal protective equipment contacted the health ministry urging the government to stock up, reports Reuters. They got no...
-- 2020-03-27 14:32:23
Malaysia announced a stimulus package worth 250 billion ringgit ($58.28 billion) on Friday, its second in a month, to help cushion the economic blow from the coronavirus pandemic. The number of confi...
Reuters 2020-03-27 14:22:00
Chinese President Xi Jinping told US President Donald Trump during a phone call on Friday that he would have China’s support in fighting the coronavirus, as the United States faces the prospect...
Reuters 2020-03-27 11:46:48
The Japanese government said on Friday there was no need now to declare a state of emergency, after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe the previous day described the coronavirus as a “national crisis&rdq...
-- 2020-03-27 11:30:33
India's western state of Maharashtra will be releasing about 11,000 prisoners to reduce overcrowding in prisons in a bid to curb the risk of coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, state home minister Anil D...
Reuters 2020-03-27 11:25:33
Li Yu is happy she sold six pieces of roasted corn on the day she reopened her stall after travel restrictions were lifted in Jingzhou, but she worries about the future of her business near the city&r...
-- 2020-03-27 09:36:55
Queues formed at supermarkets and stores in Tokyo on Friday as residents in the Japanese capital prepared for a weekend at home after the city’s governor called on them to stay at home to preven...
-- 2020-03-26 19:48:01
The spread of the novel coronavirus has left the vulnerable and marginalised in grave peril as daily wage earners, people displaced by conflict, health workers and prisoners face huge risks in the fac...
-- 2020-03-26 16:47:08
Three more people infected with coronavirus died overnight in India as the government sought on Thursday to improve basic services to 1.3 billion people locked indoors to slow the spread of the diseas...
-- 2020-03-26 14:52:59
Iran started an intercity travel ban on Thursday, an Iranian official said in a televised news conference, amid fears of a second wave of coronavirus infections in the Middle East’s worst-hit co...
-- 2020-03-26 11:57:57
Indonesia has a significant deficit in hospital beds, medical staff and intensive care facilities as health experts warn that it is primed to become a new epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic, accord...
-- 2020-03-26 10:36:52
Mainland China reported a second consecutive day of no new local coronavirus infections as the epicentre of the epidemic Hubei province opened its borders, but imported cases rose as Beijing ramped up...
Reuters 2020-03-26 10:18:13
Gunmen and suicide bombers raided a Sikh religious complex in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Wednesday, killing 25 people before security forces killed all of the attackers, the government said. The...
Reuters 2020-03-26 09:56:05
An Australian man accused of killing 51 Muslim worshippers in New Zealand’s worst mass shooting changed his plea to guilty in a surprise move on Thursday. Brenton Tarrant, who appeared by video...
-- 2020-03-25 18:04:39
India is likely to agree an economic stimulus package of more than 1.5 trillion rupees ($19.6 billion) to fight a downturn in the country that is currently locked down to stem the spread of coronaviru...
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,...
-- 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...
-- 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...
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