GENEVA: Bans on international travel cannot stay in place indefinitely, and countries are going to have to do more to reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus within their borders, the World Health Organization said on Monday (Jul 27). A surge of infections has prompted countries to reimpose some travel […]
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SYDNEY: Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison cut short a planned interstate tour to focus on the country’s coronavirus crisis on Tuesday (Jul 28), citing a “very complex” outbreak in aged care homes in the city of Melbourne. Victoria, Australia’s second most populous state, reported 384 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, […]
REUTERS: Moderna’s vaccine against COVID-19 could be ready for widespread use by the end of this year, US and company officials said on Monday (Jul 28), after the drugmaker announced the start of a 30,000-subject trial to demonstrate it is safe and effective, the final hurdle prior to regulatory approval. […]
PARIS: The unprecedented social and economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic will see nearly 7 million more children experience stunting as a result of malnutrition, the United Nations said on Tuesday (Jul 28). Even before COVID-19 there were an estimated 47 million children under five who were moderately or […]
MORRISVILLE, North Carolina: President Donald Trump wore a mask and talked up the possibility of a coronavirus vaccine by the end of the year on Monday (Jul 27) as he looked to show voters in the battleground state of North Carolina that he is responding to the pandemic. Trump, whose […]
LIMA: A staggering more than 900 girls and women are missing and feared dead in Peru since the COVID-19 confinement began, authorities said on Monday (Jul 27). The Andean nation home to 33 million people long has had a horrific domestic violence problem. But COVID-19, which has compounded home confinement […]
MADRID: Britain made a mistake when it decided at the weekend to slap a quarantine on people travelling from Spain, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Monday (Jul 27), saying most of the Mediterranean country had a lower coronavirus infection rate than the UK. Sanchez was speaking just after Britain […]
FILE PHOTO: Healthcare workers are pictured while patients recovered from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) are being released from the “Tierra y Libertad” public hospital in Monterrey, Mexico July 24, 2020. MEXICO CITY: Mexico has 395,489 total reported coronavirus cases and 44,022 deaths, the fourth highest death tally worldwide, according […]
NEW YORK: US deaths from COVID-19 rose for a third week in a row to more than 6,300 people in the seven days ended Jul 26, though the number of new cases fell 2 per cent, dropping for the first time after rising for five weeks, a Reuters analysis found. […]
BERLIN: Germany will make coronavirus tests mandatory for travellers returning from at-risk areas, Health Minister Jens Spahn said on Monday (Jul 27), as fears grow over rising case numbers blamed on summer holidays and local outbreaks. “We must prevent returning travellers from infecting others unnoticed and thus triggering new chains […]