HOUSTON: Texas Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican and ally of US President Donald Trump, on Thursday (Jul 2) issued an executive order requiring face coverings in public spaces as the state marks record numbers of new infections. The order, issued ahead of the Jul 4 holiday weekend, applies to counties […]
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STOCKHOLM: The Swedish government said on Thursday (Jul 2) it had extended temporary restrictions introduced in March on entries to the European Union through Sweden to Aug 31. The restrictions, aimed at slowing the COVID-19 pandemic, are for unnecessary trips to Sweden from countries other than those in the EU, […]
JAKARTA: Indonesia reported 1,624 coronavirus infections on Thursday (Jul 2) in its biggest jump in new cases since the epidemic began, health ministry official Achmad Yurianto said. This brings the total number of infections to 59,394. The country also reported 53 new deaths, taking cumulative COVID-19 fatalities to 2,987.
PARIS: The number of deaths in France from the new coronavirus rose by 18 on Wednesday (Jul 1) from the previous day to stand at 29,861, an increase in line with the last week’s daily average but new cases of the COVID-19 disease caused by the virus rose sharply. French […]
WASHINGTON: New COVID-19 cases in the United States rose by nearly 50,000 on Wednesday (Jul 1), according to a Reuters tally, marking the biggest one-day spike since the start of the pandemic. The record follows a warning by the government’s top infectious diseases expert that the number could soon double […]
SHANGHAI: China on Thursday (Jul 2) reported three new coronavirus cases in the mainland for Jul 1, compared with three cases a day earlier, the health authority said. Two of the new infections were imported cases, the National Health Commission said in a statement, while the capital city of Beijing […]
SYDNEY: Australian police set up suburban checkpoints in new coronavirus hotspots in Melbourne on Thursday (Jul 2), as authorities struggled to contain new outbreaks in the country’s second-largest city, even as travel restrictions eased elsewhere. Images published by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on Thursday showed police flagging down cars in […]
Remdesivir is an experimental medication produced by the US laboratory Gilead Sciences WASHINGTON: Britain and Germany said Wednesday (Jul 2) they had sufficient stocks of remdesivir, the first drug to be shown to be relatively effective in treating COVID-19, and of which the United States has bought almost all […]
GENEVA: The global coronavirus pandemic is accelerating, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday (Jul 1), with the number of daily cases surging beyond 160,000 every day in the past week, a record. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus also told a virtual briefing that well over half of all cases […]
CAIRO: Egypt restarted international flights and reopened major tourist attractions including the Great Pyramids of Giza on Wednesday (Jul 1) after over three months of closure due to the coronavirus pandemic. The country closed its airports to scheduled international flights and shut famous historical sites in mid-March as the government […]