MELBOURNE: Australia’s coronavirus hot spot of Victoria is considering easing more curbs from Sep 26 than previously flagged, the state’s premier said on Wednesday (Sep 23), as the two-week average of new infections in the city of Melbourne fell below 30. Melbourne, Australia’s second most populous city, has been the […]
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OTTAWA: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will unveil today what he says is a far-reaching plan to help the economy recover from the coronavirus pandemic while ensuring efforts to fight the outbreak do not falter. Trudeau, who has consistently vowed to do more to combat climate change, is paring down […]
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 […]
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.