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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Tue 24 March 2020: South Korea, Singapore say most fresh cases of COVID-19 pandemic were imported (REUTERS) Nine more people died in South Korea due to coronavirus amid a spike in imported cases, health authorities said Tuesday. Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that death toll has risen to 120, with 9,307 confirmed […]
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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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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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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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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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Fri 20 March 2020: The four men, sentenced to death in 2013, have been executed at Tihar jail after their clemency pleas were rejected. India has executed four men for the gang rape and murder of a woman on a Delhi bus in 2012 that sparked huge nationwide protests and international revulsion. The four were hanged before dawn […]
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Thu 19 March 2020: Press freedom in Indian-administered Kashmir is “under a serious threat from security forces”, the International Press Institute (IPI) has said in a report published on Tuesday. Raising concerns about the conditions of journalists in the disputed Muslim-majority region, the global media watchdog urged India’s Hindu nationalist government to end restrictions and […]
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Wed 18 March 2020: In his address to nation, Imran Khan warns of spread of virus in country, if people do not ‘act responsibly’ Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday pledged to fight the coronavirus and warned the nation of a possible spread of the virus in the country, if the people did not […]
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Tue 17 March 2020: Malaysia reported its first death from coronavirus: a 60-year-old pastor. The state of Sarawak said 193 close contacts of the victim were in home quarantine. The country has reported 553 coronavirus cases, the highest number in Southeast Asia. Sri Lanka bans all incoming flights for two weeks Sri Lanka banned all […]
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