MELBOURNE: Australia’s New South Wales logged its second-highest daily increase in locally acquired COVID-19 cases of the year on Sunday (Jul 25) amid fears of a wave of new infections after thousands of people joined an anti-lockdown protest. “In relation to yesterday’s protests, can I say how absolutely disgusted I […]
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MOSCOW: Russia reported 24,072 new Covid-19 cases today, including 3,406 in Moscow, taking the official national tally since the pandemic began to 6,126,541. The government coronavirus task force said 779 people had died of coronavirus-linked causes in the past 24 hours, pushing the national death toll to 153,874. Russia has […]
BEIJING: China shut down ports and railways today as it braced for Typhoon In-Fa as parts of the country struggled to recover from devastating floods earlier this week. In-Fa is forecast to make landfall late tomorrow in the eastern coastal province of Zhejiang near Shanghai, according to the official Cnews […]
BEIJING: China’s eastern province of Jiangsu found 12 new domestically-transmitted Covid-19 patients on Thursday, taking to 23 its total since July 20, in its first local outbreak since the pandemic began last year. All 23 cases were in Nanjing, the capital of the province, its latest tally showed on Friday. […]
BEIJING: China on Thursday said a WHO proposal to audit Chinese labs as part of further investigation into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic showed “disrespect” and “arrogance towards science”. Last week, the World Health Organization said a second stage of the international probe should include audits of Chinese labs, […]
SYDNEY: Australia’s two largest states reported sharp increases in new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday (Jul 21), a blow to hopes that lockdown restrictions would be lifted with more than half the country’s population under stay-at-home orders. New South Wales state, home to the country’s most populous city Sydney, logged 110 […]
TAIPEI: BioNTech SE had planned to send Taiwan five million Covid-19 vaccine doses by July under an original deal which collapsed in January, Taipei’s top diplomat in Berlin said today, detailing how the highly politicised agreement came apart. Taiwan had tried for months to get the vaccine from the German […]
SYDNEY: New South Wales, Australia’s most populous state, reported on Monday (Jul 12) 112 locally acquired COVID-19 cases, its biggest daily rise for this year, as capital city Sydney endures a hard lockdown for the third week to contain a Delta variant outbreak. Of Monday’s cases, at least 34 spent […]
SURFSIDE, Florida: Authorities searching for victims of a deadly collapse in Florida said on Sunday (Jul 11) they hope to conclude their painstaking work in the coming weeks as a team of first responders from Israel departed the site. Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said 90 deaths have now […]
BRUSSELS: The European Union has delivered enough coronavirus vaccine doses to member states to reach a target to fully vaccinate at least 70 per cent of adults in the bloc, European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said in a statement today. Von der Leyen, who had tweeted on May […]