RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil’s coronavirus death toll surpassed 80,000 on Monday (Jul 20), according to health ministry figures, as the country hit second-hardest in the world continued struggling to control the pandemic. The figure, second only to the death toll in the United States, quadrupled in two months. Brazil passed […]
Month: July 2020
BRIGHTON: Brighton and Hove Albion made sure of avoiding relegation from the Premier League after a 0-0 home draw with Newcastle United on Monday (Jul 20) sent them clear of the drop zone with one game remaining. Brighton have 38 points from 37 games, seven more than 18th-placed Aston Villa […]
BRASILIA: Two more Brazilian government ministers said on Monday (Jul 20) they had tested positive for the novel coronavirus, underscoring a struggle to limit the world’s second-worst outbreak even among the political elite. Citizenship Minister Onyx Lorenzoni and newly appointed Education Minister Milton Ribeiro both announced their diagnoses and new […]
GENEVA: South Africa’s growing COVID-19 epidemic should be an alert to the rest of the continent to strengthen disease surveillance, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday (Jul 20). South Africa reported a surge of 13,373 new cases on Saturday, the fourth largest globally. Botswana, Kenya, Namibia, Zambia and […]
WASHINGTON: Advisers to President Donald Trump and top congressional Democrats were set to discuss the next steps in responding to the coronavirus crisis on Tuesday (Jul 21), with congressional Republicans saying they were working on a US$1 trillion relief bill. In a meeting on Monday at the White House, Republican […]
CHICAGO: Southwest Airlines told employees on Monday (Jul 20) that 16,895 of its roughly 60,900 workforce have volunteered for long-term separation or early retirement deals, according to a message from Chief Executive Gary Kelly that was shared with Reuters. US airlines, which received a US$25 billion bailout in March to […]
The first quarter domestic unemployment data for this year is the tip of the iceberg since the circuit breaker restrictions only kicked in from April to May 2020, says OCBC economist Selena Ling. SINGAPORE: The worst may be over for Singapore’s GDP growth, but the business climate and the domestic […]
World shares and the euro hit their strongest levels since March on Tuesday after European Union leaders sealed a 750 billion euro (US$857 billion) post-pandemic stimulus plan after a marathon five-day meeting. LONDON: World shares and the euro hit their strongest levels since March on Tuesday after European Union leaders […]
LONDON: AstraZeneca’s experimental COVID-19 vaccine was safe and produced an immune response in early-stage clinical trials in healthy volunteers, data showed on Monday (Jul 20). The vaccine is called AZD1222 and is being developed by AstraZeneca and scientists at Britain’s University of Oxford. It did not prompt any serious side […]
Actor Johnny Depp “threatened to kill” ex-wife Amber Heard “many times”, the US actress has claimed. She described a “three-day hostage situation” during which she claimed Mr Depp was on a “drug and alcohol binge”. Mr Depp, 57, is suing the publisher of the Sun over an article that referred […]