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LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Around 170,000 people signed up within hours of a British government call for volunteers to help those stuck at home due to the coronavirus outbreak, the health minister said Wednesday. Matt Hancock unveiled a plan on Monday to create a 250,000-strong volunteer force to help deliver groceries and medicines to the most vulnerable people instructed by the government to self-isolate. This is larger than Britain’s armed forces, which currently stand […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) — Iran’s president warned that his government was poised to introduce tough new measures against the coronavirus Wednesday as the death toll from one of the world’s deadliest outbreaks topped 2,000. President Hassan Rouhani said that the new measures, which could be adopted as soon as Wednesday evening, included Iran’s first restrictions on movement to try to stem the spread of the virus and were likely to be “difficult” for the public. […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Prince Charles, the eldest son, and heir to Queen Elizabeth II, is showing mild symptoms of the new coronavirus but “otherwise remains in good health”, his office said on Wednesday. The 71-year-old and his wife Camilla — who does not have COVID-19 — are currently self-isolating in Scotland, Clarence House said. “The Prince of Wales has tested positive for Coronavirus,” it said in a statement, using his official title. “He […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — French police removed hundreds of migrants from a camp just north of Paris on Tuesday in the first such move aimed at limiting coronavirus spread among homeless people around the capital. The migrants began boarding buses in Aubervilliers at dawn, with officials saying they were headed for gyms and hotels in Paris and a nearby suburb. Prefect Michel Cadot, the government’s top official for the Paris region, announced the evacuation last […]
The self-ruled democratic island has had to scramble its own fighter jets in response to recent Chinese maneuvers, designed to show that Beijing’s military might remains unbowed by the health crisis. But the tactic is winning few friends among the Taiwanese. “As the world grapples with the severity of the COVID19 pandemic, China’s military maneuvers around Taiwan have continued unabated,” President Tsai Ing-wen said in a tweet late Tuesday accompanied by pictures of her visiting […]
by Aishwarya Kumar with Ammu Kannampilly in Mumbai NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — Anxious Indians raced for essentials on Wednesday as an unprecedented 21-day lockdown across the nation of 1.3 billion people all but emptied normally traffic-choked roads. Many shelves in the megacities of New Delhi and Mumbai were stripped bare of staples like lentils and rice as the world’s second-most populous country lurched into a shutdown aimed at slowing the spread of the new […]
(Eagle News) — The number of confirmed coronavirus cases kept rising with the addition of 84 COVID-19 positive patients bringing the country’s total to 636, as of Wednesday, March 25, 2020. The numbers were added to the previous day’s report of 552 cases, according to the Department of Health. The DOH is also monitoring 9,000 people nationwide for possible COVID-19 infection. They include around 6,000 persons under monitoring (PUMs) and 2,800 persons under investigation […]
PERTH, Australia (AFP) — Thousands of passengers on three cruise ships were stranded off Australia’s west coast Wednesday as officials refused to let them land to avoid repeating the “utter disaster” of a previous cruise-related coronavirus surge. The Artania and Magnifica were anchored off the West Australian port of Fremantle with a third, the Vasco de Gama, on its way. “There are no circumstances we will allow passengers or crew to wander the streets in […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of the Interior and Local Government on Wednesday, March 25, advised local government units to remove the window hours people are allowed to purchase their basic needs in markets. In a press conference, Interior Secretary Eduardo Año said this was to prevent people from gathering in a crowd in specific areas, in violation of social distancing protocols against the coronavirus disease 2019. “Dapat, 12 hours (na allowed bumili ang tao […]
HONG KONG China (AFP) — Asian equities soared again Wednesday after US lawmakers finally agreed on a mammoth stimulus package to support the world’s biggest economy against the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. While the deadly disease continues to spread, traders have a rare semblance of optimism after weeks of carnage across global markets, with eyes fixed on Washington where lawmakers in the early hours thrashed out an emergency bill worth as much as $2 […]
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AFP) — South Africa reported that its number of confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus jumped to 709 on Wednesday from 554 the previous day, an increase of 28 percent. South Africa, which now has the highest number of infections on the continent, has ordered a 21-day lockdown which rolls into action at midnight on Thursday. “Right now we have actually increased from yesterday, we are now at 709 cases,” Health Minister […]
YOKOHAMA, Japan (AFP) — The Diamond Princess, a coronavirus-hit cruise ship off Japan that saw 712 passengers and crew contracting the disease with 10 deaths, left its moorings in Yokohama Wednesday, a city official said. The ship, which originally carried some 3,700 passengers and crew members, dominated international headlines as Japan’s clumsy handling of its quarantine made it at one point the biggest cluster of coronavirus carriers outside China. “Disinfection work has been finished. Quarantine […]
