SYDNEY: Australian states on Tuesday (Jul 14) tightened restrictions on movement as authorities struggle to contain a fresh outbreak of COVID-19 in the country’s southeast that is starting to spill into other areas. With growing fears of a second coronavirus wave nationally, two states extended border restrictions and Australia’s most […]
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SACRAMENTO: California’s governor on Monday (Jul 13) clamped new restrictions on businesses as coronavirus cases and hospitalizations soared, and the state’s two largest school districts, in Los Angeles and San Diego, said children would be made to stay home in August. Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, ordered bars closed and […]
LONDON: Shoppers in England will have to wear face coverings in shops and supermarkets from Jul 24 to help reduce the risk of a new pick-up in the spread of the coronavirus, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s office said. Johnson said last week that tighter rules on wearing face coverings might […]
LONDON: Britain faces a potentially more deadly second wave of COVID-19 in the coming winter that could kill up to 120,000 people over nine months in a worst-case scenario, health experts said on Tuesday (Jul 14). With COVID-19 more likely to spread in winter as people spend more time together […]
GENEVA/ZURICH: The new coronavirus pandemic raging around the globe will worsen if countries fail to adhere to strict healthcare precautions, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Monday (Jul 13). “Let me be blunt, too many countries are headed in the wrong direction, the virus remains public enemy number one,” […]
REUTERS: Drugmakers partnered with the US government are on track to begin actively manufacturing a vaccine for COVID-19 by the end of the summer, a senior administration official said on Monday (Jul 13). “If you say exactly when will literally the vaccine materials be in production and manufacturing, it is […]
REUTERS: The number of coronavirus infections around the world hit 13 million on Monday (Jul 13), according to a Reuters tally, climbing by a million in just five days. The pandemic has now killed more than half a million people in six-and-a-half months, and World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros […]
SYDNEY: Australia’s most populous state reported 14 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday (Jul 13), with a growing cluster at a pub used by freight drivers travelling the country adding to fears of a second national wave of the virus. The new cases in New South Wales come after neighbouring […]
RAMALLAH: The Palestinian Authority on Sunday (Jul 12) imposed a night-time and weekend curfew on the occupied West Bank for the coming 14 days to try and rein in rising COVID-19 numbers. “Travel will be prohibited daily from 8pm to 6am in all governorates,” as well as from Thursday evening […]
LONDON: The coronavirus pandemic has caused an “unprecedented education emergency” with up to 9.7 million children affected by school closures at risk of never going back to class, Save the Children warned on Monday (Jul 13). The British charity cited UNESCO data showing that in April, 1.6 billion young people […]