Tue 24 March 2020: Iran expelled a team of doctors from international humanitarian group Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) who came to the country to treat coronavirus patients and rejected their plan to set up a field hospital in one of the country’s worst-hit provinces. France-based MSF said on Monday it sent a 50-bed […]
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Tue 24 March 2020: Country to remain under lockdown, people allowed to step out for food, health check ups Pakistan on Monday okayed the deployment of army troops nationwide to reinforce measures against coronavirus. According to a notification by the Interior Ministry, the troops will work with provincial governments to ensure a lockdown in the […]
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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: Over 380,000 cases confirmed worldwide, more than 100,000 patients recovered, as per Johns Hopkins University data The global death toll from the coronavirus pandemic climbed to 16,559 on Tuesday, as per figures compiled by the U.S.-based Johns Hopkins University. The virus, which emerged in Wuhan, China last December, has spread to […]
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Tue 24 March 2020: Social distancing is hard. In order to slow the spread of coronavirus, people around the country and the planet are being asked to stay home and minimize their contact with the outside world. This is changing everything, from how we do business to how we interact with our loved ones — […]
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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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Tue 24 March 2020: Chinese authorities are lifting a lockdown in most of its virus-hit Hubei province. People who are cleared will be able to leave the province after midnight Tuesday. The city of Wuhan, where the outbreak started in late December, will remain locked down until April 8. China barred people from leaving or […]
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Tue 24 March 2020: The new coronavirus pandemic is clearly “accelerating”, the World Health Organization warned Monday, but said it was still possible to change its trajectory by going on the attack. The remarks came as the number of deaths soared past 15,000, with more than 341,000 people infected worldwide, according to a tally compiled […]
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Tue 24 March 2020: (AFP) A vast and contentious network of facial recognition cameras keeping watch over Moscow is now playing a key role in the battle against the spread of the coronavirus in Russia. The city rolled out the technology just before the epidemic reached Russia, ignoring protests and legal complaints over sophisticated state […]
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Tue 24 March 2020: South Africa will go on lockdown on Thursday midnight following the spread of the coronavirus pandemic in South Africa. The lockdown was announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday as a measure to combat the spread of COVID-19. COVID-19: Nationwide lockdown from Thursday midnight “As a consequence, the National Coronavirus Command Council has […]
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