NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi wished Donald Trump a quick recovery today after the US president revealed he has tested positive for the novel coronavirus. “Wishing my friend @POTUS @realDonaldTrump and @FLOTUS a quick recovery and good health,” Modi said on Twitter. Trump, 74, first announced on Twitter […]
Healthcare
WASHINGTON: A Covid-19 nasal swab test punctured a US woman’s brain lining, causing fluid to leak from her nose and putting her at risk of life-threatening infection, doctors reported in a medical journal yesterday. The patient, who is in her 40s, had an undiagnosed rare condition and the test she […]
SYDNEY: Australia will within weeks allow residents of New Zealand to enter the country without having to quarantine, Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack said today, as Canberra seeks to revive its ailing economy as Covid-19 cases begin to slow. Australia in March closed its borders to all non-citizens and permanent […]
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump, who played down the threat of the coronavirus pandemic for months, said today that he and his wife Melania had tested positive for Covid-19 and were going into quarantine, upending the race for the White House. “We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We […]
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said late yesterday he would go into quarantine after a top aide tested positive for coronavirus, in a shock development that threatened to disrupt his scheduled public appearances in the crucial final weeks of the election campaign. Trump confirmed in an interview with Fox News […]
MADRID: Europe was facing up today to ever-worsening pandemic indicators, notably in Spain, Britain and France, as China revelled in its first post-coronavirus Golden Week holiday, with hundreds of millions on the move around the country. By 1100 GMT today the pandemic had killed at least 1,018,634 people around the […]
NEW YORK: The percentage of Covid-19 tests taken in New York state that have come back positive has inched up to 1.5 per cent, Governor Andrew Cuomo said yesterday, a worrisome trend for the former epicentre of the US coronavirus epidemic. New York’s positivity rate had hovered around 1 per […]
BERLIN: Chancellor Angela Merkel told the leadership of her party today that coronavirus infections could hit 19,200 per day in Germany if the current trend continues but stressed that the economy must be kept running, Bild newspaper reported. Infections have been generally rising in Germany for weeks. Data from the […]
Pedestrians, some wearing protective face masks, walk along Oxford Street, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in London, Britain, September 17, 2020. LONDON: The British government is mulling tougher restrictions in England to tackle a swiftly accelerating second wave of the novel coronavirus outbreak, possibly outlawing more inter-household socialising, […]
BRISBANE: The owner of Australia’s biggest theme park was fined A$3.6 million (RM10.6 million) today for safety failures leading to the deaths of four people on a popular water ride in 2016. Two women and two men died when their rafts collided on the Thunder River Rapids ride at Dreamworld […]