Tag: coronavirus

COVID-19 death toll rises to 114, number of cases climbs to 4,421: Health Ministry

New Delhi, Apr 7: The death toll due to novel coronavirus rose to 114 and the number of cases in the country climbed to 4,421 on Tuesday, according to the Union Health Ministry. While the number of active COVID-19 cases stood at 3,981, as many as 325 people were […]

Virus sparks boom for local farmers in import-dependent Hong Kong

After a coronavirus-fuelled wave of panic-buying briefly left Hong Kong’s supermarket shelves bare, residents are turning to local producers for fresh food in a city almost entirely reliant on imports. COVID-19 has threatened global supply chains as countries impose lockdowns and border restrictions, but for Hong Kong’s dwindling […]

US, UK brace for soaring death tolls as pandemic bears down

LONDON — The United States and Britain braced for one of their bleakest weeks in living memory on Monday as the social and financial toll of the coronavirus pandemic deepened. New infections in Italy, Spain and France showed signs of slowing, but hundreds of patients were still dying […]

PM Modi, lawmakers agree 30% salary cut as India deals with coronavirus

NEW DELHI – Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other top government figures will take a 30% salary cut this year, a government minister said on Monday, as the country tackles the coronavirus outbreak and its impact on the economy. Modi has imposed a three-week lockdown to halt the […]

Japan to declare coronavirus emergency, launch $990 billion stimulus – PM

TOKYO – Japan is to impose a state of emergency in Tokyo and six other prefectures as early as Tuesday to try to stop the coronavirus, the prime minister said, with the government preparing a $990 billion stimulus package to soften the economic blow. More than 3,500 people […]

Testing times for India in race to head off coronavirus epidemic

NEW DELHI – India, like a lot of countries plunged into crisis by the pandemic, is struggling to ramp up testing for the coronavirus, but in few places would the odds of containing the disease appear so bleak should domestic transmission start to multiply. Officials hope to be […]

Gandhi Nagar Hospital, Jammu geared up to tackle corona pandemic effectively

open view news desk JAMMU, APRIL 05: Medical Superintendent, Government Hospital Gandhi Nagar, Dr. Lakshman Dass Bhagat Sunday said that every effort is being made to provide proper treatment to the Covid-19 patients adding that the hospital has been geared up to tackle the pandemic effectively. “We are […]

Scared but desperate, Thai sex workers forced to the street

A shutdown to contain the coronavirus has killed Thailand’s party scene and forced sex workers like Pim out of bars and onto desolate streets. She’s scared but desperately needs customers to pay her rent. Red-light districts from Bangkok to Pattaya have gone quiet with night clubs and massage […]

Trump says ‘toughest’ weeks ahead as coronavirus spreads

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is warning that the country could be headed into its “toughest” weeks yet as the coronavirus death toll mounts, but at the same time he expressed growing impatience with social distancing guidelines and said he’s eager to get the country reopened and its […]

AP FACT CHECK: Trump, ‘wartime’ pandemic leader or ‘backup’?

WASHINGTON — Is he a wartime president or a backup point man? President Donald Trump seems to go back and forth on that, or both ways at once, in responding to the coronavirus pandemic that takes more lives by the hour. In his recent rhetoric, the president who […]

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