ISLAMABAD: Pakistan today began a nine-day shutdown affecting travel and tourist hotspots in a bid to prevent a surge in Covid-19 cases during the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr. Already battling a third wave of infections and increasingly nervous about the crisis across the border in India, the government has […]
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NEW DELHI: India’s southern state of Tamil Nadu announced new lockdown measures today as officials reported a nationwide record number of single-day Covid-19 deaths as cases continue to surge. India’s health ministry reported 4,187 fatalities over the past 24 hours, taking the overall death toll to just under 240,000. Cases […]
SYDNEY: Australia’s prime minister fended off accusations of racism and having blood on his hands on Tuesday (May 4), as he retreated from a threat to jail Australians trying to escape COVID-19-wracked India. Scott Morrison’s government moved to ban travellers from India from entering Australia until May 15, threatening rule-breakers […]
MOSCOW: Russia reported 8,697 new Covid-19 cases today, including 2,699 in Moscow, taking the official national tally since the pandemic began to 4,823,255. The government coronavirus task force said 342 people had died of coronavirus-linked causes in the past 24 hours, pushing Russia’s death toll to 110,862. The federal statistics […]
MOSCOW: Russia reported 8,697 new Covid-19 cases today, including 2,699 in Moscow, taking the official national tally since the pandemic began to 4,823,255. The government coronavirus task force said 342 people had died of coronavirus-linked causes in the past 24 hours, pushing Russia’s death toll to 110,862. The federal statistics […]
WELLINGTON: New Zealand on Friday paused its newly opened travel bubble with Australia, the government in Wellington said, after a Covid-19 outbreak in its larger neighbour. “As set out in our Trans-Tasman bubble protocols, travel between New Zealand and Western Australia has been paused, pending further advice from the state […]
NEW DELHI: Hospitals in India launched desperate appeals for oxygen today as the nation’s Covid crisis spiralled, while Japan issued a state of emergency in some areas just three months before the Olympics are due to open. Covid-19 surges are placing a major strain on healthcare systems across the world, […]
DUBLIN: Irish authorities expect new restrictions on the use of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine should have a “fairly minimal” impact on the country’s vaccine rollout in the coming months, the country’s acting chief medical officer said. Ireland said yesterday it would limit AstraZeneca’s vaccine to those over 60, but Ronan Glynn […]
WASHINGTON: US federal health agencies today recommended pausing the use of Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine after six recipients developed a rare disorder involving blood clots, in a fresh setback to global efforts to tackle the pandemic. The move comes a week after European regulators said they had found a […]
PARIS: Europe’s stuttering vaccine rollout faced multiple shocks today as EU regulators said they were reviewing side effects of the Johnson & Johnson shot and France further limited its use of the AstraZeneca jab. Much of the world is still in the clutches of the pandemic that has killed 2.9 […]