MELBOURNE: Australia will effectively seal off the state of Victoria from the rest of the country, authorities said Monday (Jul 6), announcing unprecedented measures to tackle a worrying surge in coronavirus cases. For the first time since the pandemic began, the border between Australia’s two most populous states – Victoria […]
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RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has announced health protocols to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus in the 2020 Haj season, banning gatherings and meetings between pilgrims, the state news agency said on Monday (Jul 6). Saudi Arabia decided in June to limit the number of domestic pilgrims attending the Haj […]
LONDON: Britain’s police said on Sunday (Jul 5) that revellers who packed London’s Soho district the night pubs finally reopened made it “crystal clear” that drunk people cannot socially distance. England’s hospitality sector sprung back to life after a three-month coronavirus hiatus on what the media dubbed as either “Super […]
DUBAI: Saudi Arabia’s coronavirus infections have passed 200,000 and neighbouring United Arab Emirates 50,000, with the number of new cases climbing after the Arab world’s two largest economies fully lifted curfews last month. Restrictions had been in place in both countries since mid-March and their gradual lifting has allowed commercial […]
JAKARTA: An Indonesia-Australia deal that eliminates most trade tariffs between the two nations and aims to open up investment, took effect on Sunday (Jul 5), Indonesia’s Trade Ministry said. The Indonesia-Australia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (IA-CEPA), signed last year and ratified by the Indonesia’s parliament in February, aims to boost […]
NEW DELHI: Visitors to the Taj Mahal will have to wear masks at all times, keep their distance and not touch its glistening marble surfaces when India’s 17th-century monument to love reopens on Monday (Jul 6) after a three-month COVID-19 shutdown. Only 5,000 tourists will be allowed in a day, […]
WASHINGTON, DC: Florida and Texas, two states that have emerged as the latest hot spots of the US coronavirus outbreak, both reported new single-day record increases in confirmed COVID-19 cases on Saturday (Jul 4), with nearly 20,000 additional infections combined. For a second straight day, Texas also registered an all-time […]
GENEVA: The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Saturday (Jul 4) that it was discontinuing its trials of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine and combination HIV drug lopinavir/ritonavir in hospitalised patients with COVID-19 after they failed to reduce mortality. The setback came as the WHO also reported more than 200,000 new […]
MANILA: Philippine immigration officers falsified records to show ex-Wirecard executive Jan Marsalek briefly visited the country after he was sacked from the collapsed German payments processor, the justice minister said on Saturday (Jul 4). German and Philippine authorities want to question the former chief operating officer as part of their […]
SINGAPORE: This General Election is not about the survival of any particular opposition party, or how many seats in Parliament the People’s Action Party (PAP) is going to get, said Minister for Trade and Industry Chan Chun Sing. It should be about how Singapore is going to get through the […]