SAO PAULO: As the number of dead from coronavirus shot up in Brazil, the popularity of far right President Jair Bolsonaro has remained unchanged. For his supporters, the president has done nothing wrong despite more than 63,000 deaths and 1.5 million infections. Bolsonaro originally dismissed the coronavirus as a “little […]
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GENEVA: The World Health Organization (WHO) has updated its account of the early stages of the COVID-19 crisis to say it was alerted by its own office in China, and not by China itself, to the first pneumonia cases in Wuhan. The United Nations health body has been accused by […]
BEIJING: China on Friday (Jul 3) vowed to gradually phase out the slaughter and sale of live poultry at food markets, in a move welcomed by animal rights activists amid the coronavirus pandemic. The announcement came as China stepped up inspections of wholesale food markets and outlawed the sale and […]
LONDON: Travellers from more than 50 countries including France, Italy and Spain – but not the United States – can stop self-isolating on arrival in England from July 10, the UK government said Friday. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will each announce their own separate rules depending on how they […]
THE HAGUE: Dutch authorities announced Friday (Jul 3) that another mink farm has been infected with the novel coronavirus, making 18 in total, with thousands of animals to be culled. The outbreak was reported on a farm at Landhorst in the southeast, the Health Ministry said in a statement, in […]
SHANGHAI: Rainstorms are expected for large parts of China over the weekend, the state weather bureau said on Friday (Jul 3), forecasting even more extreme weather a day after some regions suffered more than 200mm of rainfall. China’s emergency ministry warned that water levels in the middle reaches of the […]
MELBOURNE: Australia reported a drop in new coronavirus cases on Friday (Jul 3), with a surge in the second most populated state Victoria appearing to have eased, although more than 10,000 people have refused to be tested in hotspot suburbs of Melbourne. There were 66 new cases in Victoria on […]
LONDON: Britain’s government said it will lift its COVID-19 quarantine requirement for people arriving in England from countries including Germany, France, Spain and Italy from Jul 10. A full list of countries covered by the relaxation would be announced on Friday (Jul 3), the country’s transport ministry said. Under the […]
WASHINGTON: New COVID-19 cases in the United States rose by more than 50,000 on Thursday (Jul 2), setting a record for a third consecutive day, according to a Reuters tally. New infections rose in 37 out of 50 US states in the past 14 days compared with the two weeks […]
Small bottles labelled with a ‘Vaccine COVID-19’ sticker and a medical syringe. WASHINGTON, DC: US President Donald Trump on Thursday (Jul 2) voiced optimism the United States would soon come up with a vaccine for the novel coronavirus, saying three vaccine candidates were looking especially good. “Three are really, […]