NEW YORK: One of America’s top government scientists, Anthony Fauci, has issued an urgent plea for a change in US policy on the coronavirus, drawing a sharp rebuke from the Trump administration in the final days of a hard-fought election campaign. Fauci, in an interview in the Washington Post yesterday, […]
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IZMIR: A 70-year-old man was pulled from the rubble of a collapsed building in the Turkish city of Izmir yesterday, after being buried for 33 hours following a powerful earthquake which struck Turkey’s Aegean coast and Greek islands. Turkish authorities reported more deaths yesterday, bringing the toll to 62, all […]
WASHINGTON: Coronavirus cases continued their grim climb in the United States yesterday with Midwestern states experiencing record hospitalizations, as increasingly bitter rhetoric kept the virus front and centre of campaigning two days before the presidential election. Nearly 87,000 cases were reported on Saturday, with 909 deaths and record hospitalisations for […]
ROME: Italy’s health minister said today hat new data on the coronavirus was “terrifying” and the country had two days to approve further restrictions to curb its spread. Yesterday, Italy recorded almost 32,000 new coronavirus cases, its highest daily record since the start of the crisis, and just under 300 […]
MELBOURNE: Australia recorded no new daily coronavirus community infections today for the first time in nearly five months, health officials said, paving the way for further easing of social distancing restrictions. The state of Victoria, a coronavirus hot spot which accounts for more than 90 per cent of Australia’s 907 […]
WASHINGTON: The United States notched a record number of new coronavirus cases yesterday, for the first time topping 90,000 diagnoses in 24 hours, according to a tally from Johns Hopkins University. The country, which has seen a resurgence of its Covid-19 outbreak since mid-October, recorded 91,295 new cases in the […]
WASHINGTON: The White House coronavirus task force has warned that much of the country is in the grips of an “unrelenting” rise in Covid-19 cases, urging tough countermeasures, while at least nine states yesterday reported record daily increases in new infections. The hardest-hit regions in the West and Midwest encompass […]
PARIS: France and Germany moved yesterday toward shutting down sectors of their economies as part of accelerating efforts worldwide to check a resurgent coronavirus and still limit the financial fallout. Hundreds of thousands of new infections took the known global caseload past 44.5 million with nearly 1.2 million deaths, as […]
NEW YORK: New York and other parts of the northeastern United States, which have kept the coronavirus outbreak under control after being an early epicenter in the country, are now seeing a worrying rise in infections. While the number of new cases is far from the high levels currently seen […]
Pfizer estimated a revenue hit of $500 million connected to Covid-19 due to lower pharma demand in China and fewer wellness visits from patients in the US. A worker tests a liquid chemical inside of a laboratory at the Pfizer Inc. research and development facility in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US […]