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Thailand reports four new coronavirus cases, one new death

Thailand reports four new coronavirus cases, one new death

-- 2020-05-09 12:03:38

Thailand reported four new coronavirus cases and one more death on Saturday, bringing the total to 3,004 cases and 56 deaths since the outbreak started in January. A 68-year-old man from Bangkok died...

Global COVID-19 cases exceed four million

Global COVID-19 cases exceed four million

-- 2020-05-09 10:38:06

Confirmed coronavirus (COVID-19) cases around the world stood at 4,012,837 on Saturday morning The virus has so far killed 276,216 people, reports UNB citing the Associated Press. Currently, 2,351,4...

China open to probe of origins of coronavirus, says envoy

China open to probe of origins of coronavirus, says envoy

-- 2020-05-08 21:10:24

China is open to an independent investigation to determine the origins of the coronavirus now sweeping the world, Chinese ambassador to Berlin told a German magazine on Friday According to Reuters, t...

Kuwait imposes ‘total curfew’ until May 30

Kuwait imposes ‘total curfew’ until May 30

-- 2020-05-08 20:47:30

Kuwait will enact a ‘total curfew’ from 1300 GMT on Sunday through to May 30 to help curb the spread of the new coronavirus. According to Reuters, further details of the curfew will be an...

Wuhan market had role in virus outbreak: WHO

Wuhan market had role in virus outbreak: WHO

-- 2020-05-08 20:09:31

A wholesale market in the central Chinese city of Wuhan played a role in the outbreak of the novel coronavirus last year, as the source or possibly as an "amplifying setting", the World Health Organiz...

Train runs over 14 migrant workers walking home in India

Train runs over 14 migrant workers walking home in India

AP 2020-05-08 11:56:20

A train in India crashed into a group of migrant workers walking along the railroad tracks on to their way back to their home state on Friday, killing at least 14, officials and local media said. The...

Men of BD origin more at risk from COVID-19: UK

Men of BD origin more at risk from COVID-19: UK

REUTERS 2020-05-08 10:32:45

Black people and men of Bangladeshi and Pakistani origin are nearly twice as likely to die from the COVID-19 disease than whites, even when adjusting data for deprivation, a new British report said on...

Japan approves remdesivir as treatment for COVID-19

Japan approves remdesivir as treatment for COVID-19

-- 2020-05-07 22:59:21

Japan on Thursday approved Gilead Sciences Inc's remdesivir as a treatment for COVID-19, making it the country's first officially authorised drug to tackle the coronavirus disease, reports Reuters.&nb...

South Korean findings suggest ‘reinfected’ coronavirus cases are false positives

South Korean findings suggest ‘reinfected’ coronavirus cases are false positives

-- 2020-05-07 13:49:07

South Korean health authorities raised new concerns about the novel coronavirus after reporting last month that dozens of patients who had recovered from the illness later tested positive again. The...

Myanmar repatriates 173 citizens from BD, Thailand

Myanmar repatriates 173 citizens from BD, Thailand

-- 2020-05-07 13:39:25

Myanmar authorities brought back 38 Myanmar nationals from Bangladesh and 135 from Thailand to home by a relief flight on Wednesday, state-run media reported Thursday. In order to retrieve the Myanma...

India’s COVID-19 cases near 53,000, death toll at 1783

India’s COVID-19 cases near 53,000, death toll at 1783

REUTERS 2020-05-07 12:04:42

The number of coronavirus infections rose to 52,952 in India, up by 3,561 over the previous day, the health ministry said on Thursday, with no signs of abating despite a strict weeks-long lockdown in...

China says whole country now at low virus risk

China says whole country now at low virus risk

-- 2020-05-07 11:46:44

China on Thursday declared the whole country now at low virus risk as its new cases fall to near zero and no new deaths have been reported from COVID-19 in more than three weeks. The last place downg...

Six dead, over 100 hospitalised after gas leakage in south India

Six dead, over 100 hospitalised after gas leakage in south India

-- 2020-05-07 10:12:16

At least six people are dead after a chemical gas leakage at an LG Polymers facility located near Visakhapatnam in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, a local government official said on Thur...

Tariffs should not be used as a weapon: China

Tariffs should not be used as a weapon: China

-- 2020-05-06 18:03:04

China’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday tariffs should not be used as a weapon, after US President Donald Trump threatened new tariffs last week as a retaliatory measure over Beijing’s...

UN bodies want protection of migrants at sea

UN bodies want protection of migrants at sea

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-05-06 14:39:17

Three UN humanitarian agencies including the UNHCR, IOM and UNODC urged the regional countries to ensure protection for the migrants at sea. In a joint statement issued on Wednesday, they expressed d...

South Korea spy agency says no signs Kim received heart surgery

South Korea spy agency says no signs Kim received heart surgery

-- 2020-05-06 11:35:32

There are no signs North Korean leader Kim Jong Un received heart surgery when he disappeared from state media for three weeks, but he reduced public activity due to coronavirus concerns, Yonhap news...

Three photojournalists from Jammu & Kashmir win Pulitzer Prize

Three photojournalists from Jammu & Kashmir win Pulitzer Prize

-- 2020-05-05 21:45:17

The story of India’s crackdown on Kashmir last August was difficult to show to the world. The unprecedented lockdown included a sweeping curfew and shutdowns of phone and internet service. But...

Israel claims 'breakthrough' in coronavirus treatment

Israel claims 'breakthrough' in coronavirus treatment

-- 2020-05-05 19:46:21

Israel has isolated a key coronavirus antibody at its main biological research laboratory, the Israeli defence minister said on Monday, calling the step a "significant breakthrough" toward a possible...

Delhi imposes 70 pc ‘corona tax’ on alcohol to deter large crowds

Delhi imposes 70 pc ‘corona tax’ on alcohol to deter large crowds

-- 2020-05-05 13:48:00

Officials in India’s capital imposed a special tax of 70 per cent on retail liquor purchases from Tuesday, to deter large gatherings at stores as authorities ease a six-week lockdown imposed to...

Eight Indian soldiers die in Kashmir gunbattles

Eight Indian soldiers die in Kashmir gunbattles

Reuters 2020-05-05 10:54:19

Three Indian soldiers were killed in a gunbattle with militants in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir on Monday, a day after a similar incident in which five were killed. Juniad Khan, a senior...

Japan extends state of emergency to May 31

Japan extends state of emergency to May 31

-- 2020-05-04 21:05:26

Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has announced to extend the country’s national state of emergency until May 31. Abe will consider lifting the state of emergency without waiting for its...

In city of India’s Taj Mahal, coronavirus resurgence carries warning signs

In city of India’s Taj Mahal, coronavirus resurgence carries warning signs

-- 2020-05-04 10:47:40

On Feb 25, a day after US President Donald Trump and his wife Melania posed for pictures outside the Taj Mahal on an official visit to India, Sumit Kapoor returned to his nearby home from a trip to It...

China sees 85m domestic tourist trips in three days

China sees 85m domestic tourist trips in three days

Xinhua 2020-05-03 19:39:37

China saw nearly 85 million domestic tourist trips in the first three days of its five-day May Day holiday which started May 1, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism said Sunday. Tourism revenue totall...

North and South Korea exchange gunfire across border

North and South Korea exchange gunfire across border

REUTERS 2020-05-03 11:06:42

North and South Korea exchanged gunfire around the South’s guard post early on Sunday, raising tension a day after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ended an almost three-week absence from public...

Iran's virus death toll crosses over 6,000

Iran's virus death toll crosses over 6,000

Xinhua 2020-05-02 18:07:50

Iranian Health Ministry reported that 65 more people died from the novel coronavirus overnight, pushing the total to 6,156 as of Saturday, according to the state TV. Kianush Jahanpur, head of Public...

Singapore to reopen some businesses on May 12

Singapore to reopen some businesses on May 12

-- 2020-05-02 16:44:22

Singapore will allow selected businesses to reopen on May 12 in a cautious rollback of a two-month partial lockdown despite rising coronavirus infections among foreign workers. The city-state reporte...

Malaysia rounding up migrants to contain coronavirus spread: Police

Malaysia rounding up migrants to contain coronavirus spread: Police

-- 2020-05-02 11:36:10

Malaysian authorities are rounding up undocumented migrants as part of efforts to contain the spread of coronavirus, the country’s police chief said late on Friday, after hundreds of migrants an...

Kim Jong Un appears in public: State media

Kim Jong Un appears in public: State media

-- 2020-05-02 10:10:32

North Korea's state news agency KCNA has said Kim Jong Un attended the completion of a fertiliser plant in a region north of the capital, Pyongyang, in the first report of his public activity since Ap...

India extends lockdown by two weeks

India extends lockdown by two weeks

Reuters 2020-05-01 19:55:39

India said on Friday it would extend its nationwide lockdown for another two weeks after May 4, but would allow "considerable relaxations" in lower-risk districts marked as green and orange zones unde...

Malaysia eases restrictions, reopens most economic activities

Malaysia eases restrictions, reopens most economic activities

Xinhua 2020-05-01 16:51:15

Malaysia will ease restrictions to allow most economic and social activities to restart following the recent decline of the COVID-19 cases in the country, Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said on Frida...