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Reuters 2020-04-28 13:18:15
Claims that the coronavirus pandemic originated in a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan have no basis in fact, the head of the lab told Reuters news agency, adding that there were still no conclu...
Reuters 2020-04-28 10:35:21
For 15 years, Siti Zabedah Abdul Wahab’s family food business has opened for one month a year, selling murtabak, a pan-fried bread stuffed with meat, at Malaysia’s popular Ramadan bazaars....
-- 2020-04-28 10:32:43
As more Japanese restaurants shut down and people stay home during the country’s state of emergency to fight the coronavirus, experts say rats may be expanding their search for food to deserted...
-- 2020-04-27 21:30:40
Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Monday asked state governments of the country to stop using coronavirus testing equipment brought from China because of conflicting results. More than hal...
Xinhua 2020-04-27 18:39:30
Vietnam reports no new COVID-19 cases on Monday, the third day in a row, with its total confirmed cases remaining at 270, according to its Ministry of Health. The country on Monday announced that thr...
AP 2020-04-27 16:41:21
Iraq is planning painful cuts in social benefits relied on by millions of government workers. Saudi Arabia will likely have to delay mega-projects. Egypt and Lebanon face a blow as their workers in th...
-- 2020-04-27 16:21:22
Researchers at a Hong Kong university say they have developed an antiviral coating which could provide 90 days of "significant" protection against bacteria and viruses such as the one causing COVID-19...
-- 2020-04-27 16:10:50
New Zealand says it has stopped community transmission of COVID-19, effectively eliminating the virus. With new cases in single figures for several days - one on Sunday – country’s Prime...
Reuters 2020-04-27 11:58:30
It is a Ramadan like never before for Muslims across Asia as mosques that would normally be packed for prayers are deserted and in some places locked up as governments enforced measures to stem the sp...
-- 2020-04-27 11:39:22
Saudi Arabia will no longer impose the death penalty on people who committed crimes while still minors, the country's Human Rights Commission says. The announcement, citing a royal decree by King Sal...
Reuters 2020-04-27 11:07:51
South Korean officials are calling for caution amid reports that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un may be ill or is being isolated because of coronavirus concerns, emphasising that they have detected no...
-- 2020-04-27 10:57:17
More than a million Australians rushed to download an app designed to help medical workers and state governments trace close contacts of COVID-19 patients, as Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s app...
REUTERS 2020-04-27 09:49:34
A Saudi Arabia-led coalition said on Monday all parties need to return to the status that existed before the Southern Transitional Council (STC) in Yemen declared an emergency in Aden, according to a...
-- 2020-04-26 21:38:04
Saudi Arabia eased curfews on Sunday across the country but kept 24-hour lockdown in place in the city of Mecca and neighbourhoods previously put in isolation to curb the spread of the new coronavirus...
Reuters 2020-04-26 21:28:09
Iran plans to reopen mosques in parts of the country that have been consistently free of the coronavirus outbreak as restrictions on Iranians gradually ease, President Hassan Rouhani said on Sunday....
-- 2020-04-26 20:05:22
An Indian woman was allegedly gang raped in a school in the desert state of Rajasthan where she had been quarantined for a night by the police amid the nationwide coronavirus lockdown, a police offici...
-- 2020-04-26 19:54:26
Afghan authorities are struggling to implement lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus in a province bordering Iran where the outbreak is widening due to an influx of Afghan returnees and me...
-- 2020-04-26 16:58:56
The Chinese city of Wuhan, where the global coronavirus pandemic began, now has no remaining cases in its hospitals, a health official told reporters on Sunday. The novel coronavirus is believed to h...
-- 2020-04-26 13:09:37
Singapore registered 931 new coronavirus infections, its health ministry said on Sunday, taking the city-state’s total number of COVID-19 cases to 13,624. The vast majority of the new cases are...
-- 2020-04-26 11:03:31
A special train possibly belonging to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was spotted this week at a resort town in the country, according to satellite images reviewed by a Washington-based North Korea mo...
Xinhua 2020-04-24 18:21:21
At a time when the world economy is plagued by the coronavirus pandemic, policymakers across the globe are faced with the same dilemma: how to get the economy back on track amid containment of the vir...
REUTERS 2020-04-24 15:34:29
Parts of India have recorded dramatic falls in mortality rates after a nationwide lockdown was imposed to fight the new coronavirus, suggesting there has not been an undetected surge in virus-related...
-- 2020-04-24 14:46:25
South Asia’s coronavirus infections have crossed 37,000, with more than half in India, official data showed on Thursday, complicating the task of governments looking to scale back lockdowns that...
Reuters 2020-04-23 11:21:14
Leading Pakistani doctors on Wednesday urged the government and clerics to reverse a decision to allow prayer congregations at mosques during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, warning that the spread...
-- 2020-04-23 11:01:00
Nearly 50 crew members on an Italian cruise ship docked for repairs in Japan’s Nagasaki have tested positive for the new coronavirus, raising concern about the strain on the city’s hospita...
-- 2020-04-22 18:53:28
India has ordered a pause in testing for antibodies to the coronavirus because of concern over the accuracy, health officials said on Wednesday, complicating the fight against the epidemic as its tall...
-- 2020-04-22 17:14:30
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has condemned the death of a World Health Organisation worker in Myanmar's Rakhine state who was killed while transporting swabs from patients to be tested for co...
Global Times 2020-04-22 16:44:38
India's move to amend its foreign direct investment (FDI) rules, which is widely seen as targeting China, will weigh on the confidence and expansion of Chinese investors, who have been playing an ac...
REUTERS 2020-04-22 12:48:49
Dressed in a hazmat suit, two masks and a face shield, Du Mingjun knocked on the mahogany door of a flat in a suburban district of Wuhan on a recent morning. A man wearing a single mask opened the do...
Xinhua 2020-04-22 12:06:08
Indian health ministry Wednesday morning said 37 new deaths of COVID-19, besides an additional 999 positive cases were reported since Tuesday evening across the country, taking the number of deaths to...
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