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by Chris Lefkow with Jing Xuan Teng in Wuhan WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — China lifted a travel ban on Tuesday on residents of Wuhan, where the coronavirus pandemic began last year, and reported no new deaths, but the situation remained grim elsewhere as Britain and New York State recorded their highest number of fatalities yet. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson remained in intensive care, meanwhile, after being admitted to a London hospital on Monday […]
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AFP) — Sweden on Tuesday reported another 114 coronavirus deaths, bringing the total to 591 in a country that has adopted a softer approach to containing the outbreak than some of its European neighbors. Sweden’s Public Health Agency said it had recorded a total of 7,693 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the country of around 10 million people. It reported 114 new deaths on Tuesday, an uptick from preceding daily tolls, but cautioned […]
(Eagle News)–Cloudy skies with isolated rains are expected in parts of Northern Luzon today. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said cloudy skies with isolated light rains in particular will be experienced over Batanes and Babuyan Group of Islands. Partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers or thunderstorms are also expected over the provinces of Aurora, Abra, Benguet, Ifugao, Mt. Province, Kalinga, Apayao, Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, La Union, Pangasinan, Isabela, Quirino, […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — Two elderly South Korean coronavirus patients recovered from severe pneumonia after being treated with plasma from survivors, researchers said Tuesday, offering hope in the face of the global pandemic. Scientists have pointed to the potential benefits of plasma — a blood fluid — from recovered individuals who have developed antibodies to the virus enabling the body’s defenses to attack it. Since emerging in China in December, the coronavirus has killed […]
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — Spain’s daily coronavirus death toll shot up to 743 on Tuesday after falling for four straight days, lifting the total to 13,798, the health ministry said. However, it emphasized that the rise was due to weekend deaths being tallied and that the overall “downward trend” is continuing. The new figure represents a 5.7 percent increase over the 637 deaths recorded on Monday, the lowest number of fatalities since March 24 in […]
(Eagle News) – The total number of COVID-19 cases worldwide has reached more than 1.35 million, with the United States, Spain, Italy and Germany listed as the top four countries with the most number of cases, according to the Johns Hopkins University dashboard on global cases. The total COVID-19 related deaths reached 74,870 as of Monday, April 7, around 5 p.m. (PST), with Italy still with the most reported deaths at more than 16,500 […]
by Sara MAGNIETTE and Charlotte VAN OUWERKERK, with Julie CHARPENTRAT in Paris and Emmanuelle MICHEL in Madrid THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AFP) — While the world waits for a coronavirus vaccine, medicines used to deal with the symptoms of the disease are increasingly in critically short supply in Europe, the worst-hit continent. From sedatives needed to intubate patients struggling to breathe to anti-malarial drugs heavily backed by US President Donald Trump, the COVID-19 pandemic is eating […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Health said that 104 new cases of COVID-19 were added in the past 24 hours, bringing the total cases in the country to 3,764. While the 104 new cases were fewer than those added on Monday of 414, there were more deaths reported in the past day at 14. Because of this the total COVID-19 fatalities have now reached 177 as of 4 p.m. Monday, April 7, 2020. […]
(Eagle News) — Budget carrier AirAsia is canceling all its international and domestic flights until April 30. According to AirAsia, all affected passengers “will be promptly notified via email or SMS.” The airline also encouraged guests to update their contact details using the “My Bookings” feature on airasia.com to ensure that they receive timely notifications. Guests with existing flight bookings made on or before March 22 with a departure date until May 31 will be able […]
by Holly ROBERTSON Agence France Presse BRISBANE, Australia (AFP) — Cardinal George Pell was released from prison on Tuesday, hours after Australia’s High Court quashed his conviction for child sex abuse, bringing to an abrupt end the most high-profile paedophilia case faced by the Catholic Church. The 78-year-old left Barwon Prison near Melbourne after the court overturned five counts of sexually abusing two 13-year-old choirboys in the 1990s. Pell, who had steadfastly maintained his […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) — The trajectory of coronavirus infections in Iran appears to have started a “gradual” downward trend, the government said Monday, but it warned the disease is far from being under control. The COVID-19 outbreak claimed 136 lives in the past 24 hours, bringing Iran’s overall death toll to 3,739, health ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour told a televised news conference. Iran registered 2,274 new cases of infection over the same period, he said, […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States on Monday warned China not to take advantage of the coronavirus pandemic to exert itself in the South China Sea after Vietnam said Beijing sank a trawler. Amid the global focus on fighting COVID-19, China has ramped up self-described research stations and landed special military aircraft in the dispute-rife sea, according to the State Department. “We call on the PRC to remain focused on supporting international efforts […]
