BEIJING: China’s capital called on importers on Monday (Sep 28) to shun frozen food from countries suffering from severe novel coronavirus outbreaks after several cases of imported seafood products testing positive for the virus. “Customs and local governments have repeatedly detected the coronavirus in imported cold chain food, proving it […]
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PARIS: On January 11, the first coronavirus death was officially recorded in China. Eight months after the identification of the disease that appeared in Wuhan in December 2019, the world has recorded over one million deaths. 1,000 deaths in the first month The Sars-CoV-2 virus which causes the illness known […]
NEW DELHI: India today reported the number of coronavirus cases in the country had passed six million, as the pandemic rages across the vast South Asian nation. With 6.1 million infections according to the health ministry, India is on course to pass the United States in the coming weeks as […]
LONDON: The British government wants university students to be able to return home for Christmas, culture minister Oliver Dowden said today, amid concerns that more lockdown measures may be needed to curb the rising number of coronavirus cases. “I very much want students to be able to go home at […]
MELBOURNE: An overnight curfew in Australia’s second-largest city will be lifted this week, officials said today, even as the global coronavirus toll inched towards one million dead. Despite the number of infections worldwide passing 32 million—with the US state of New York reporting a fresh spike—more than 10,000 anti-lockdown protesters […]
JAKARTA: Indonesia reported 3,874 new coronavirus infections on Sunday, bringing the total number of cases to 275,213, official data from the Covid-19 task force showed. The southeast Asian country also reported 78 new deaths, bringing the total number of fatalities to 10,386. A total of 3,611 people recovered from the […]
TEHRAN: Iran’s death toll from the novel coronavirus rose by 207 to 25,222 today, with the total number of identified cases spiking to 439,882, a health ministry spokeswoman said. It was the highest single-day death toll since the ministry registered 216 deaths on August 1. Ministry spokeSwoman Sima Sadat Lari […]
SYDNEY: Thousands of Australian students today protested to demand investment in renewable-energy projects, though Covid-19 restrictions confined the events to small gatherings and online activism. About 500 protests were held across Australia, with other demonstrations expected worldwide today. In Sydney, gatherings were limited to no more than 20 people, while […]
SEOUL: North Korea expressed regret today over the death of a missing South Korean, saying it shot him as part of measures to battle the coronavirus, the South’s national security adviser said. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un sent a letter to South Korean President Moon Jae-in saying the incident should […]
CHICAGO: The scientific head of the US government programme designed to speed development of Covid-19 vaccines said yesterday he supports stricter rules to grant emergency use of new inoculations against the novel coronavirus. Speaking at a virtual Town Hall with Black physicians and community leaders, Operation Warp Speed scientific lead […]