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NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a major easing of coronavirus restrictions Monday, including the imminent resumption of 24-hour operations on the city subway. The announcement highlights how far the Big Apple, once the epicenter of the United States’s outbreak, has come in getting the virus under control. From May 19, percentage limits on occupancy will be scrapped for many business and cultural venues in the city — including […]
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) — Shortages of Covid-19 vaccines have forced several large Brazilian cities to suspend administering second doses, officials and media reports said Monday, the latest breakdown in the hard-hit country’s troubled immunization drive. Seven of Brazil’s 26 state capitals have stopped administering the booster shot of Chinese-developed CoronaVac because of a lack of supply, according to news site G1. And Rio de Janeiro, Brazil’s second city, announced Saturday it was halting […]
https://youtu.be/F0d-KXh0_Jc (Eagle News) — Beginning May 3, Panama will restrict the entry of travelers from India due to the surge of cases of Covid-19 in the Asian country. The second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in India is devastating the second most populous country in the world, with 1.35 billion inhabitants and adding more than 300,000 new infections every day. The Minister of Health, Luis Francisco Sucre, reported that the entry restrictions measures for […]
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The Covax global vaccine equity program has signed an advance purchase agreement with Moderna for 500 million doses of its Covid-19 jabs, the scheme’s co-leaders Gavi announced Monday. “We are very pleased to sign this new agreement with Moderna, giving Covax facility participants access to yet another highly efficacious vaccine,” Seth Berkley, chief executive of the Gavi vaccine alliance, said in a statement. © Agence France-Presse
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) — The European Union’s executive on Monday proposed that travellers who are fully vaccinated with EU-approved jabs be able once again to enter the bloc, if they come from countries keeping Covid-19 at bay. “The Commission proposes to allow entry to the EU for non-essential reasons not only for all persons coming from countries with a good epidemiological situation but also all people who have received the last recommended dose of an […]
ALGIERS, Algeria (AFP) — Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Sunday urged his government to open “a dialogue” with social partners to appease mounting social anger. Unemployment at 15 percent, soaring prices and shortages of basic food items have all added to turmoil caused by a deep economic crisis due to the fall in oil revenues and political deadlock since the popular Hirak pro-democracy uprising two years ago. During a cabinet meeting, Tebboune ordered “a dialogue […]
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AFP) — At least 26 people were killed when a speedboat packed with passengers collided with a vessel transporting sand on Monday in the latest maritime disaster to hit Bangladesh. Police said the speedboat carrying about three dozen passengers from the town of Mawa rammed into the other vessel in the Padma river as it neared the main river station in the central rural town of Shibchar. “We have so far recovered 26 […]
by Neil SANDS WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AFP) — New Zealand’s differences with China on human rights are becoming “harder to reconcile”, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Monday, after Wellington faced criticism for failing to challenge its largest trading partner. Ardern’s government has taken flak over its meek criticisms of China’s rights record, leading to accusations New Zealand is a weak link in the US-led Five Eyes intelligence network. In a speech at a China Business […]
NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — India’s total Covid caseload neared 20 million on Monday as oxygen shortages in hospitals exacerbated a devastating second wave and much-needed foreign assistance continued to pour in. Infections have soared by around eight million since the end of March, according to official data which many suspect are a considerable underestimate. India’s underfunded health care system is under severe strain, with fatal shortages of beds, drugs and oxygen leaving some to […]
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AFP) — Pakistan has closed land crossings with Iran and Afghanistan for travellers and slashed international flights as the government warned of a “critical” few weeks ahead in the battle against Covid-19. The border restrictions were announced Sunday as the country prepared to mark the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, which usually sees the mass movement of people between cities and villages as well as the return of migrant workers and overseas Pakistanis […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — An overcrowded smuggling boat capsized Sunday off the California coast after crashing into the shoreline, killing three people and leaving 27 people hospitalized with a range of injuries, authorities said. The accident happened Sunday morning off San Diego, with all aboard the 40-foot (12 meters) vessel jumping into the choppy water as it slowly disintegrated, witness video showed. “It was a smuggling vessel,” Jeffery Stephenson of the Customs […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — An increasingly powerful China is challenging the world order, acting “more repressively” and “more aggressively” as it flexes its influence, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in an interview that aired Sunday. “What we’ve witnessed over the last several years is China acting more repressively at home and more aggressively abroad. That is a fact,” the top American diplomat said in an interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes.” His […]
