INDIA BANS EXPORT OF KEY MALARIA DRUG AMID CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK

Wed 25 March 2020: The Indian government said on Wednesday that it is banning the export of hydroxychloroquine and formulations made from the medication, as experts test the efficacy of the drug in helping treat patients infected with COVID-19. There are currently no approved treatments, or preventive vaccines for COVID-19, the highly contagious, sometimes deadly […]

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PROTESTS OF INDIA’S ANTI-MUSLIM CITIZENSHIP LAW CONTINUE UNABATED

Tue 24 March 2020: Police in India’s capital broke up the longest-running protest against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s anti-Muslim citizenship law on Tuesday as dozens of people, many of them women, continued to stage protests, defying coronavirus fears. Hundreds of police in riot gear surrounded the protesters early Tuesday in the neighborhood of Shaheen Bagh, […]

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US SECRETARY OF STATE POMPEO VISITS KABUL AMID MULTIPLE CRISES

Mon 23 March 2020: (AFP) US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in the Afghan capital Kabul on Monday, a pool report said, amid an ongoing political crisis, a raging Taliban insurgency and rising coronavirus cases. Pompeo was set to meet with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani along with his archrival Abdullah Abdullah, who also claims […]

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PAKISTAN DECLARES LOCKDOWN IN MAJOR CITIES, CASES JUMP TO 629

Sun 22 March 2020: Pakistan on Sunday shut down markets and public places in several major cities of the country amid the coronavirus outbreak. The number of coronavirus cases in the country also jumped to 629. According to the provincial governments of Northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Punjab, and Balochistan, the public have been advised to […]

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MALAYSIA HOSPITAL SHUTS FOR CLEANING AFTER COVID-19 PATIENT GAVE BIRTH THERE

Sat 21 March 2020: The Pantai Hospital Laguna Merbok in Sungai Petani will be closed for two days from Sunday (Mar 22) for cleaning and disinfecting works to be carried out following a positive COVID-19 case. Its chief executive officer Tio Bee Chan said the first-ever COVID-19 case recorded in the hospital involved a 30-year-old woman who was […]

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