LONDON: Global COVID-19 cases exceeded 12 million on Wednesday (Jul 9), according to a Reuters tally, as evidence mounts of the airborne spread of the disease that has killed more than half a million people in seven months. The number of cases is triple that of severe influenza illnesses recorded […]
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BRASILIA: Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday (Jul 8) vetoed provisions of a law that obligated the federal government to provide drinking water, disinfectants and a guarantee of hospital beds to indigenous communities amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The president’s office said those provisions in the law, approved by Congress, were […]
OTTAWA: Canada handled the coronavirus outbreak better than many of its allies, including the United States, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Wednesday (Jul 8) in a rare public comment on the faltering US effort. Canada – with a population a tenth of the size of the United States – […]
BUENOS AIRES: Argentina posted a daily record of 3,604 confirmed cases of COVID-19 as the South American country grapples with rising infections that are threatening its early success in stalling the spread of the virus. The sharp rise, the first time daily cases topped 3,000, took the total number to […]
RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has gone all in on hydroxychloroquine to help his coronavirus-ravaged country beat COVID-19. He has pushed his government to make the malaria drug widely available and encouraged Brazilians to take it, both to prevent the disease and to treat it. Now the far-right […]
RIYADH: Jobless and broke, Sudanese electrician Hatem is stranded in limbo in Riyadh like countless other illegal workers, but he hopes the fast-spreading coronavirus will offer a chance for escape. While coronavirus drives a huge exodus of expatriates, campaigners say potentially hundreds of thousands of illegal workers remain stranded in […]
LONDON: Britain’s National Gallery reopens on Wednesday (Jul 8), with masks recommended and social distancing and advance booking mandatory, as the country continues to emerge from three months of coronavirus lockdown. The central London venue is the first major art museum in the British capital to open its doors after […]
MELBOURNE: Shoppers in Australia’s second-biggest city stripped supermarket shelves Wednesday (Jul 8) as millions in Melbourne prepared for a return to virus lockdown, with warnings the new restrictions will cost the economy A$1 billion (US$700 million) a week. Five million residents were ordered back into a six-week lockdown beginning midnight […]
LONDON: Scientists warned on Wednesday (Jul 8) of a potential wave of coronavirus-related brain damage as new evidence suggested COVID-19 can lead to severe neurological complications, including inflammation, psychosis and delirium. A study by researchers at University College London (UCL) described 43 cases of patients with COVID-19 who suffered either […]
WELLINGTON: New Zealand said on Wednesday (Jul 8) that a 32-year-old man who tested positive for COVID-19 will be charged after briefly absconding from an isolation facility in Auckland, the latest slip-up as the country tries to keep coronavirus cases at its border. The man, who was in quarantine after […]