GENEVA: The World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Monday (Aug 3) that, despite strong hopes for a vaccine, there might never be a “silver bullet” for COVID-19. More than 18.14 million people around the world are reported to have been infected with the disease and 688,080 have died, according to […]
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MELBOURNE: Australia’s second-biggest city Melbourne, already under night curfew, announced fresh restrictions on industries on Monday (Aug 3), including retail and construction, as it steps up desperate efforts to contain the spread of a resurgent coronavirus. From Wednesday night, Melbourne will close retail, some manufacturing and administrative businesses as part […]
WASHINGTON: The US notched 47,508 new coronavirus cases in 24 hours on Sunday (Aug 2), according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University. There were also 515 new deaths, the Baltimore-based university real-time count at 8.30pm local time. Sunday’s toll was a slight dip, as the previous five days had […]
MELBOURNE: Australia’s second-most populous city Melbourne emerged on Monday (Aug 3) from its first night-time curfew to contain the spread of a resurgent coronavirus, as residents braced for further closures and job losses. The state of Victoria on Sunday imposed the nightly curfew for the capital Melbourne as part of […]
WASHINGTON: The White House and Donald Trump’s campaign on Sunday (Aug 2) sought to shut down the Republican president’s musings on delaying the 2020 vote, saying there will be an election on Nov 3. White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said Trump was raising concerns about mail-in ballots when […]
JOHANNESBURG: South Africa’s confirmed cases of COVID-19 have crossed half a million, its health ministry said on Saturday (Aug 1), while cases in Africa as a whole approached a million. Africa’s most industrialised nation recorded 10,107 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus, pushing […]
GENEVA: The World Health Organization on Saturday (Aug 1) warned the coronavirus pandemic was likely to be “lengthy” after its emergency committee met to evaluate the crisis six months after sounding the international alarm. The committee “highlighted the anticipated lengthy duration of this COVID-19 pandemic”, the WHO said in a […]
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON: China’s ByteDance has agreed to divest the US operations of TikTok completely in a bid to save a deal with the White House, after President Donald Trump said on Friday he had decided to ban the popular short-video app, two people familiar with the matter said on Saturday […]
NEW YORK: President Donald Trump said on Friday (Jul 31) he would sign an executive order as soon as Saturday to ban fast-growing social media app TikTok in the United States, as American authorities have raised concerns the service could be a tool for Chinese intelligence. US officials and lawmakers […]
MOSCOW: Russia’s health minister is preparing a mass vaccination campaign against the novel coronavirus for October, local news agencies reported on Saturday (Aug 1), after a vaccine completed clinical trials. Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said the Gamaleya Institute, a state research facility in Moscow, had completed clinical trials of the […]