JAKARTA: Indonesia recorded 1,922 new coronavirus infections today, bringing the total number of cases in the Southeast Asian country to 115,056, official data by the country’s Covid-19 task force showed. The data also showed there were 86 additional deaths, taking the overall number of fatalities to 5,388.
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The children sang rhymes and answered questions, with some of them speaking of the loudspeaker as ‘Speaker Brother’ or ‘Speaker Sister’. One overcast morning in a farming village in hilly western India, a group of schoolchildren sat on the mud floor of a wooden shed for their first class in […]
President Moon Jae-in was set to hold an emergency meeting today, after he had urged national and regional authorities to ‘make all-out efforts to prevent further loss of life’ the previous day. SEOUL: Days of heavy rain caused floods in South Korea that have forced more than 1,000 people […]
INDIANAPOLIS: Eli Lilly and Co said on Monday (Aug 3) it started a late-stage trial testing whether one of its experimental COVID-19 antibody treatments can prevent the spread of infections in residents and staff at US nursing homes. The Indianapolis-based drugmaker said it dosed the first participant in the placebo-controlled […]
Tens of millions of people in the Philippines are back in lockdown, after doctors warned a surge in new coronavirus cases could push the healthcare system to collapse. Stay-at-home orders are now in place in Manila and four surrounding provinces on the island of Luzon for two weeks. The country […]
WASHINGTON: As the world awaits a COVID-19 vaccine, the next big advance in battling the pandemic could come from a class of biotech therapies widely used against cancer and other disorders: antibodies designed specifically to attack this new virus. Development of monoclonal antibodies to target the virus has been endorsed […]
SYDNEY: Australia’s second-most populous state Victoria said on Tuesday (Aug 4) military personnel will be deployed to enforce COVID-19 isolation orders, with anyone caught in breach of those rules facing tough new fines. Five hundred military personnel will be deployed to the state to bolster enforcement of self-isolation orders, with […]
WASHINGTON: The US government’s top infectious disease expert, Dr Anthony Fauci, on Monday (Aug 3) said states with high coronavirus case counts should reconsider imposing lockdown restrictions, emphasising the need to get cases to a low baseline before the fall flu season. In some states with moderate case counts, experts […]
Lunchbox, books, pencil case — masks? Thousands of children in northern Germany became the first in Europe to begin a new school year on Monday after months of curtailed hours over the coronavirus pandemic. The rest of the country was watching anxiously as 150,000 children returned to school in Mecklenburg-Western […]
MOSCOW: Russia said on Monday (Aug 3) it aims to launch mass production of a coronavirus vaccine next month and turn out “several million” doses per month by next year. The country is pushing ahead with several vaccine prototypes and one trialled by the Gamaleya institute in Moscow has reached […]