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BANDUNG, Indonesia (AFP) — Thousands of animals, including endangered Sumatran tigers and Bornean orangutans, are facing starvation at Indonesia’s zoos as the global pandemic pushes shuttered facilities toward collapse, officials say. Some 60 cash-strapped animal parks — home to roughly 70,000 creatures — across the Southeast Asian archipelago have been closed since mid-March and most say they have only enough food until the middle of May. “Most zoos relied on ticket sales so when they […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has donated a $100,000 prize she won from a Danish foundation to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) for use against the COVID-19 pandemic, the world body said Thursday. “Like the climate crisis, the coronavirus pandemic is a child rights crisis,” Thunberg, 17, was quoted as saying in the UNICEF statement. “It will affect all children, now and in the long term, but vulnerable […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States recorded more than 2,000 coronavirus deaths in a 24-hour period for the third day running, according to the latest real-time tally Thursday reported by Johns Hopkins University. The country — hardest hit by the pandemic in terms of the number of fatalities — recorded 2,053 deaths on Thursday, after 2,502 deaths on Wednesday and 2,207 on Tuesday. At least 62,906 people have now died in the United […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened new tariffs against Beijing after claiming there is evidence linking the coronavirus to a lab in China’s ground-zero city of Wuhan. Asked if he had seen anything giving him a high degree of confidence that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was the origin of the outbreak, Trump replied, “Yes, I have.” The Republican is increasingly making complaints over Beijing’s handling of the pandemic […]
by Phil HAZLEWOOD / James PHEBY Agence France Presse LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Britain is “past the peak” of its coronavirus outbreak, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday, despite recording another 674 deaths in the last 24 hours. The coronavirus death is now 26,711, the world’s third-most highest behind the United States and Italy, after changing its reporting to include community as well as hospital deaths on Wednesday. The UK’s number of confirmed […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres praised South Korea Thursday for combatting the novel coronavirus while simultaneously fighting climate change. The country was providing a “remarkable example” of how “the two things can be put together,” Guterres told journalists during a press conference. Under a so-called Green Deal, South Korea has put together what Guterres called “very ambitious” plans for a post-coronavirus economic recovery which include a reduction of emissions […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Beaches in some parts of southern California will be shut down from Friday, the state’s governor announced, to avoid a repeat of the huge crowds that flocked there last weekend. “We’re going to do a hard close … just in the Orange County area,” Gavin Newsom said. “Specific issues on some of those beaches have raised alarm bells,” he added, referring to the thousands of people who packed beaches […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Los Angeles will offer free coronavirus tests to all residents regardless of whether they show any symptoms, Mayor Eric Garcetti said. “Announcing that L.A. is now the first major city in America to offer free COVID-19 testing to all residents,” Garcetti tweeted Wednesday. Priority will be given to those with symptoms and front-line workers but individuals without symptoms can also be tested. Along with hand-washing and social distancing “testing […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — South Korea Thursday reported no new locally transmitted coronavirus cases for the first time since the disease was detected in the country more than two months ago. Health authorities said, however, there was an additional death — taking the toll to 247. “For the first time in 72 days, we have zero new domestic cases,” President Moon Jae-in posted on his Facebook account. The country has seen 10,765 cases […]
FRANKFURT AM MAIN, Germany (AFP) — The jobless total in Germany rose unusually sharply in April, official data showed Thursday, highlighting the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on Europe’s top economy. The jobless total soared to 2.6 million in April from 2.3 million in March, according to data compiled by the federal labor agency BA. And in seasonally adjusted terms, the unemployment rate jumped to 5.8 percent this month from 5.0 percent the previous month, the agency […]
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — Spain on Thursday counted another 268 people who have died from the coronavirus, the lowest daily number since March 20 as the country prepares to ease its tough lockdown measures. The figures from the health ministry bring the total number of deaths from the pandemic in Spain to 24,543 — the fourth-highest after the United States, Italy and Britain. This is the fifth straight day that the number of daily deaths […]
by Kang Jin-kyu with AFP bureaus Agence France Presse SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — South Korea, once one of the hardest-hit countries in the coronavirus pandemic, reported no new cases on Thursday, boosting hopes of an eventual return to normality as US scientists hailed the results of a major drug trial. The good medical news caused equities to rally, despite mounting deaths worldwide and abysmal economic figures caused by the COVID-19 crisis. Data showed the […]
