ZAGREB – A large earthquake struck near the Croatian capital Zagreb on Sunday, leaving a teenager critically injured after an apartment building in the city collapsed, the GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences and a hospital official said. Another minor was badly injured and the quake caused several […]
LONDON – Countries can’t simply lock down their societies to defeat coronavirus, the World Health Organization’s top emergency expert said on Sunday, adding that public health measures are needed to avoid a resurgence of the virus later on. “What we really need to focus on is finding those […]
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran’s supreme leader refused U.S. assistance Sunday to fight the new coronavirus, citing an unfounded conspiracy theory that the virus could be man-made by America. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s comments come as Iran faces crushing U.S. sanctions blocking the country from selling its crude […]
Indian Railways has cancelled all passenger train services until March 31 due to the coronavirus outbreak, ANI reported on Sunday. bit.ly/2UnQEQS Reuters March 22, 2020 Reporting by Subrat Patnaik in Bengaluru; Editing by Sam HolmesOur Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles. https://in.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-india-railways/indian-railways-cancels-all-passenger-trains-till-march-31-ani-idINKBN2190AA
Los Angeles, Mar 22: Singer Rihanna’s non-profit organisation, the Clara Lionel Foundation, has donated USD 5 million to coronavirus response efforts. The charity will be supporting Direct Relief, Partners In Health, Feeding America, the International Rescue Committee and World Health Organization’s COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund as they continue to […]
New Delhi, Mar 22: The total number of novel coronavirus cases in India rose to 341 on Sunday after fresh cases were reported from various parts of the country, the Union Health Ministry said. The total includes 41 foreign nationals and five deaths, the latest being reported from Maharashtra, […]
MUMBAI – Thousands of poor city migrants whose livelihoods have collapsed due to India’s coronavirus measures headed back to their villages on Saturday, raising fears that the exodus could carry the virus to the countryside. About one fifth of India’s 271 confirmed coronavirus cases has been reported in […]
MUMBAI – Hundreds of millions of Indians stayed indoors on Sunday, heeding Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s appeal to citizens to self-isolate as authorities battled to contain the fast-spreading coronavirus epidemic. At least 341 people have so far contracted the disease and four deaths have been reported in India […]
Gamers, bitcoin “miners” and companies large and small have teamed up for an unprecedented data-crunching effort that aims to harness idle computing power to accelerate research for a coronavirus treatment. The project led by computational biologists has effectively created the world’s most powerful supercomputer that can handle trillions […]
French researcher Roland Marchal returned to Paris on Saturday after being imprisoned in Iran for over nine months, after France released an Iranian threatened with extradition to the US. “Roland has returned,” his support group announced in a short message. He was taken to a military hospital near […]
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