SEOUL: South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in called yesterday for a regional infectious disease control and public health initiative involving China, Japan, Mongolia, and North Korea to tackle health crises and lay the foundation for peace with Pyongyang. In a video message to the United Nations General Assembly, Moon said collective […]
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WASHINGTON: The United States registered its 200,000th death from the COVID-19 pandemic on Tuesday (Sep 22), the latest grim milestone for the country just weeks before voters decide if President Donald Trump will stay in office. According to a rolling tally by Johns Hopkins University, 200,182 Americans have died and […]
OTTAWA: Covid-19 infections have surged in Canada and if people do not take stringent precautions, they could balloon to exceed levels seen during the first wave of the pandemic, health officials warned on Monday. “Canada is at a crossroads and individual action to reduce contact rates will decide our path,” […]
JAKARTA: Indonesia reported on Tuesday its biggest daily rise in coronavirus deaths with 160 fatalities, data from the country’s Covid-19 task force showed. Indonesia has reported 9,837 deaths overall, the highest death toll in Asia outside India. It also reported 4,071 new coronavirus infections, bringing the total number of cases […]
NEW DELHI: India reported 75,083 new cases of the novel coronavirus in the last 24 hours, according to federal health data released today, the lowest daily tally in almost a month. There were 1,053 deaths over the same period. There have been 5.6 million cases in total in the […]
GENEVA: Some 156 nations have joined a global scheme for fair distribution of future vaccines against Covid-19, an alliance led by the World Health Organisation (WHO) said yesterday, but superpowers China and the United States did not sign up. US President Donald Trump’s government has already secured future supplies through […]
LONDON: Britain needs to control the coronavirus now in order for Christmas to be as normal as possible, health minister Matt Hancock said today. “The more we can control the virus now and stop the spread now, the easier it’s going to be to have a Christmas that’s as close […]
MANILA: The Philippines’ health ministry today confirmed 3,475 new coronavirus infections and 15 more deaths, the lowest daily increase in fatalities in two weeks. In a bulletin, the ministry said total confirmed cases had increased to 290,190, still the most in Southeast Asia, while confirmed deaths had reached 4,999.
SYDNEY: Australia reported on Monday (Sep 21) its smallest daily increase in new coronavirus infections in more than three months, but authorities in the nation’s virus hotspot of Victoria said they could not hasten the easing of curbs. The 16 new infections are Australia’s smallest daily jump since Jun 14, […]
LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was on Monday (Sep 21) pondering a second national lockdown as an accelerating coronavirus outbreak threatened to destroy any shoots of economic recovery and send millions back into isolation. The United Kingdom already has the biggest official COVID-19 death toll in Europe – and […]