REUTERS 2020-04-19 15:00:34
India has not yet taken a decision on when to lift or ease restrictions on domestic and international flights and urged airlines to take travel bookings only after a final decision is made, a governme...
-- 2020-04-19 12:52:26
Turkey’s confirmed coronavirus cases have risen to 82,329, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on Saturday (Turkey standard time), overtaking neighbouring Iran for the first time to register the...
REUTERS 2020-04-19 09:57:27
Pakistan has lifted restrictions on congregational prayers at mosques, but put in place a host of safety conditions to avert the further spread of the coronavirus in the country, a statement said on S...
-- 2020-04-18 18:08:54
The number of confirmed novel coronavirus cases in Japan rose to 10,000 on Saturday, just days after a state of emergency was extended to the entire nation in an attempt to slow the spread of the viru...
-- 2020-04-18 17:30:20
Singapore's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported 623 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, bringing the total confirmed cases in the country to 5,050. The ministry also said that 69 per cent of the new cases we...
-- 2020-04-18 09:53:40
A surge in fighting between the Myanmar military and insurgents has killed at least 32 civilians, mostly women and children, in the restive Rakhine and Chin states, the UN human rights office said on...
Reuters 2020-04-17 20:23:27
The number of people infected with the coronavirus crossed 22,000 in densely populated South Asia on Friday driven by a rise in cases in India as the tiny Indian Ocean island nation of Maldives locked...
-- 2020-04-17 16:15:59
Indonesia reported on Friday 407 new coronavirus cases, taking the total number of cases to 5,923 and surpassing the Philippines as the country with the highest number of infections in Southeast Asia....
Reuters 2020-04-17 16:06:53
The purple ink stamped on Iqbal Hussain Siddiqui's hand by Indian health workers was supposed to ensure he stayed home under quarantine. But the 66-year-old Siddiqui, an egg seller in Mumbai's...
Reuters 2020-04-17 12:14:03
Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque compound will be closed to Muslim worshippers throughout the holy fasting month of Ramadan due to the coronavirus epidemic, Muslim clerics at Islam’s third-hol...
Reuters 2020-04-16 18:18:27
India's vibrant newspaper industry that reaches tens of millions of readers daily has been ravaged by declining advertising revenues due to a nationwide lockdown to fight the coronavirus, pushing lead...
-- 2020-04-16 17:29:51
China's civil aviation authority has moved to ensure air cargo transport of supplies for the fight against the novel coronavirus outbreak worldwide, reports Xinhua. The Civil Aviation Administration...
-- 2020-04-16 16:45:16
Fearing a convergence of respiratory allergies and spread of the coronavirus pandemic, Kashmir authorities have ordered the felling of tens of thousands of poplar trees that account for nearly a third...
REUTERS 2020-04-16 16:18:00
South Korean health officials are investigating several possible explanations for a small but growing number of recovered coronavirus patients who later test positive for the virus again. Among the m...
Reuters 2020-04-16 15:48:57
China’s foreign ministry said on Thursday the World Health Organization (WHO) has said there is no evidence that the coronavirus that has infected more than 2 million people globally was made in...
-- 2020-04-16 12:49:04
India has brought charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder against the chief of a Muslim seminary for holding a gathering last month that authorities say led to a big jump in coronavirus i...
Reuters 2020-04-16 10:48:46
China reported on Thursday fewer new coronavirus cases involving travellers arriving from overseas, but locally transmitted infections rose, with the Chinese capital seeing new local cases for the fir...
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Australia’s federal government on Thursday urged state premiers to reopen schools as it considers how to start winding back some other restrictions on movement that have helped slow the spread o...
-- 2020-04-15 17:27:43
India has agreed to sell hydroxychloroquine tablets to Malaysia for use in the treatment of COVID-19 patients, a Malaysian minister said on Wednesday, with New Delhi partially lifting its bar on expor...
-- 2020-04-15 17:15:21
The last medical assistance team started leaving Hubei Province Wednesday as the COVID-19 epidemic in the hard-hit province has been subdued. The medical team consisting of over 180 medical workers f...
Global Times 2020-04-15 16:54:47
A total of 460,000 businesses in China succumbed to the novel coronavirus assault in the first quarter of 2020, among which 57 per cent had been in operation for less than three years, according to a...
-- 2020-04-15 16:11:21
Japan urged its citizens on Wednesday to stay home, as media reports warned that as many as 400,000 of them could die of the coronavirus without urgent action, and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe came under...
AP 2020-04-15 16:05:19
In the six days after top Chinese officials secretly determined they likely were facing a pandemic from a new coronavirus, the city of Wuhan at the epicentre of the disease hosted a mass banquet for t...
Reuters 2020-04-15 11:57:16
South Koreans began going to the polls on Wednesday to elect members of parliament, wearing masks and plastic gloves as part of strict safety measures in one of the first national elections held amid...
-- 2020-04-15 10:22:09
The global death toll from novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has reached 126,604 as of Wednesday morning. There have been 1,998,111 confirmed cases around the world after the highly contagious disease was...
-- 2020-04-15 09:32:21
Thousands of Indians who fled cities to return to their villages after the government imposed a coronavirus lockdown have been running away from quarantine centres. In government schools and village...
-- 2020-04-14 21:30:00
China has approved three COVID-19 vaccine candidates for clinical trials, said an official with the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) on Tuesday, reports Xinhua. An adenovirus vector vaccine,...
Reuters 2020-04-14 20:36:48
India extended a lockdown on its 1.3 billion people until at least May 3 on Tuesday and Prime Minister Narendra Modi said economic sacrifices were needed to save lives as the number of coronavirus cas...
-- 2020-04-14 16:31:50
North Korea launched multiple short-range anti-ship cruise missiles into the sea and Sukhoi jets fired air-to-surface missiles on Tuesday as part of its ongoing military exercises, South Korea’s...
-- 2020-04-14 15:01:00
The Philippines introduced a more aggressive testing programme for the coronavirus on Tuesday to locate as many as 15,000 unknown infections, despite having implemented some of Asia’s strictest...
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