CAPE TOWN: The first of thousands of South African-designed ventilators rolled off a Cape Town assembly line on Friday (Jul 31), responding to requests from hospitals needing them for severe COVID-19 cases but unable to get them on global markets, officials said. Poorly resourced hospitals across Africa, which is nearing […]
JOHANNESBURG: When coronavirus patients started arriving at South Africa’s government-run Thelle Mogoerane Hospital, workers scrambled to set up isolation wards to treat them. They can’t keep up. Video filmed inside the hospital and seen by Reuters shows patients with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, being treated in […]
BERLIN: Germany will force people returning from three Spanish regions, including Catalonia, home to Barcelona, to go into quarantine or take a coronavirus test, in the latest blow to Europe’s travel industry after months of lockdown. With virus numbers ticking up in Germany, fears have grown that tourists returning from […]
LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that a recent uptick in infections was a “warning light” which means he has to hit the brakes on the easing of lockdown as he postponed the re-opening of close-contact services for at least two weeks. “I’ve said throughout the pandemic that there […]
FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Trump visits Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies’ Innovation Center in Morrrisville, North Carolina WASHINGTON: As scientists and pharmaceutical companies work at breakneck speed to develop a vaccine for the novel coronavirus, public health officials and senior US lawmakers are sounding alarms about the Trump administration’s lack of […]
Finnish telecom network equipment maker Nokia reported an unexpected rise in its second-quarter underlying profit on Friday, amid the COVID-19 pandemic as its new chief executive Pekka Lundmark takes over on Saturday. HELSINKI/STOCKHOLM: Finnish telecom network equipment maker Nokia reported an unexpected rise in second-quarter underlying profit on Friday as […]
Australia unveiled a draft law Friday to force Google and Facebook to pay news media for their content in a “world-leading” initiative sure to prompt a confrontation with the digital giants. SYDNEY: Australia unveiled a draft law Friday (Jul 31) to force Google and Facebook to pay news media for […]
REUTERS: Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc said on Thursday (Jul 30) it has bought another US$522 million of stock in Bank of America Corp , boosting its already large stake in the second-largest US bank by assets. Berkshire bought about 21.2 million Bank of America shares from Jul 28 to […]
SEOUL: North Korea’s sanctions-hit economy defied the impact of international restrictions to grow for the first time in three years in 2019, the South’s central bank said Friday (Jul 31). Nuclear-armed Pyongyang is highly secretive and refuses to publish growth statistics of its own, leaving outsiders reliant on estimates drawn […]
THE HAGUE: Dutch airline KLM said Friday (Jul 31) it would shed up to 5,000 jobs due to a “crisis of unprecedented magnitude” caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The carrier, part of the Air France KLM group, said the cuts through the end of 2021 were necessary as it had […]