Sun 03 May 2020: Bangladesh reported 665 new coronavirus cases on Sunday — the largest single-day increase since the outbreak was first reported in the country on March 8, the country’s state-run news agency Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) said. The densely populated South Asian nation has so far reported 9,455 cases and 177 deaths, the BSS reported, citing a senior health […]
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Sun 03 May 2020: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday that there was “enormous evidence” that the coronavirus pandemic originated in a laboratory in Wuhan, China. “There is enormous evidence that this is where it began,” he said on ABC’s “This Week.” But while highly critical of China’s handling of the matter, […]
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Sun 03 May 2020: Iran plans to reopen mosques and schools in areas that have been consistently free of the coronavirus as President Hassan Rouhani’s government starts to ease restrictions that were aimed at containing the outbreak, reports Reuters. With mosques closed and religious gatherings banned since mid-March as the outbreak spread in the Middle East’s […]
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Sun 03 May 2020: Turkey on Saturday sent a shipment of medical supplies, including new Turkish-made ventilators, to Somalia to help the Horn of Africa country combat the coronavirus outbreak. The ventilators, made through recent technological advances, will be the “breath of life for our Somali brothers,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Twitter. […]
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Sun 03 May 2020: Saudi Arabia will take strict and painful measures to deal with the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic, the finance minister said on Saturday, adding that “all options for dealing with the crisis are open”. Earlier this week, the Kingdom reported that its budget had fallen into a $9 billion deficit after […]
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Sun 03 May 2020: In March, India’s top court said that it was “difficult for prisoners to maintain social distancing” and ordered that detainees convicted of crimes with jail terms of no more than seven years be given parole. Many states started releasing thousands of inmates. Although there are no official numbers on how many […]
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Sun 03 May 2020: (REUTERS) Countries must lift lockdowns gradually, while still being “on the look-out” for COVID-19 and ready to restore restrictions if the virus jumps back, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. Vulnerable people in institutions, including those in long-term care facilities, prisons and migrant dormitories, must be protected, its top […]
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Sun 03 May 2020: The Turkish Trade Ministry lifted temporary export restrictions and a requirement for private companies to obtain advance permission before shipping abroad medical equipment used in treating COVID-19. A notice published Saturday in Turkey’s Official Gazette rescinded restrictions on exporting ventilators, intubation tubes, life support machines, intensive care unit monitors and other […]
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Sun 03 May 2020: It was written more than 70 years ago, but Albert Camus’ celebrated classic La Peste (The Plague) is speaking to us as loudly as ever. The book, which tells of the spread of a plague in a North African town and the human response to death, has seen a major uptick in sales since the […]
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Sat 02 May 2020: The Chairman of the Turkish Pharmacists’ Association Erdoğan Çolak announced that 55 million masks were distributed to pharmacies as part of the Turkish government’s plan to dispense them to citizens free of charge, to help combat the spread of the coronavirus in Turkey. Until 11 March, the date of the first registered case […]
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