Tue 09 June 2020: Governments around the world are cautiously peeling back those restrictions to resuscitate their economies while trying to avoid a resurgence of infections. As New York entered phase one of its reopening and some of Europe’s hardest-hit nations lurched back to a new kind of normal, the WHO reported a record number […]
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Mon 08 June 2020: (AFP) The US Justice Department sued a Chinese company for selling nearly a half million fake and substandard N95 respirators to US buyers in April as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the country. In a complaint filed in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, the department said Guangdong-based King Year Packaging and […]
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Mon 08 June 2020: (Reuters) – Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) people in Britain have been hit harder by job losses during the coronavirus crisis than the population as a whole, researchers have found. The share of BAME people in employment fell to 67.4% in April from 72.0% in February, researchers from the University […]
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Mon 08 June 2020: (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia could drastically limit numbers at the annual haj pilgrimage to prevent a further outbreak of coronavirus after cases in the country topped 100,000, sources familiar with the matter said on Monday. Some 2.5 million pilgrims visit the holiest sites of Islam in Mecca and Medina for the […]
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Mon 08 June 2020: (Reuters) – The coronavirus will cause global economic output to contract by 5.2% in 2020, the World Bank said on Monday, warning that its latest forecasts would be revised downward if uncertainty over the pandemic and business lockdowns persist. In its latest Global Economic Prospects report, the World Bank said that […]
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Mon 08 June 2020: (Reuters) – The World Health Organization (WHO) urged countries on Monday to press on with efforts to contain the novel coronovirus, noting the pandemic was worsening globally and had not peaked in central America. “More than six months into the pandemic this is not the time for any country to take […]
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Mon 08 June 2020: (Reuters) India reopened shopping malls and restaurants on Monday and people trickled into temples and mosques wearing masks even as the country added a record number of infections in a single day and was closing in on Spain and the United Kingdom’s caseload. After imposing a severe lockdown in March, Prime […]
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Mon 08 June 2020: Russia ordered its troops in Syria to separate from pro-Iran militias in mid-March in an effort to protect them from the spread of the coronavirus, the New Khaleej reported. An opposition source said Russian and Syrian regime troops were repositioned away from the Bustan Al-Qasr neighbourhood in Aleppo, known to be a stronghold […]
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Mon 08 June 2020: The outbreak of the new coronavirus has reached every nation in Africa, a continent of 1.2 billion people. Experts warn fragile healthcare systems in many African countries could be overwhelmed in the face of a severe outbreak of COVID-19, the highly infectious respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus. Below is an […]
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Mon 08 June 2020: Hundreds of thousands of jobs, if not millions, could be lost in Britain if aviation is not able to resume quickly, the chief executive of London’s Heathrow Airport said on Monday. Britain introduced a 14-day quarantine period for international arrivals on Monday despite warnings from its biggest airlines that the move will decimate […]
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