Middle East braces for austere Ramzan as virus threat looms large
Riyadh: From cancelled iftar feasts to suspended mosque prayers, Muslims across the Middle East are bracing for a bleak month of Ramzan fasting as the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic lingers. Ramzan is a period for both self-reflection and socialising. Believers fast from dawn to dusk and then gather around a family or community meal […]
US calls for COVID-19 probe inside China
Washington: The US wants to send a team of experts to China to investigate the coronavirus, President Donald Trump has said, a day after he warned Beijing of “consequences” if it was knowingly responsible for the spread of COVID-19 which has killed more than 165,000 people globally, including over 41,000 in America. Describing the coronavirus […]
Global virus deaths pass 150,000 as Trump endorses lockdown protests
Washington: Coronavirus deaths have surged past 150,000 worldwide with nearly a quarter of them in the United States, where President Donald Trump lent his support to protesters rallying against lockdown orders. Evidence is mounting that social distancing successfully slowed the pandemic after more than half of humanity — 4.5 billion people — were confined to […]
Defiant clerics: Pak allows conditional congregational prayers during Ramazan
Islamabad: Succumbing to pressure from the hardline clerics, the Pakistan government on Saturday allowed congregational prayers in mosques during the month of Ramazan, endangering the drive to curb the spread of coronavirus that has killed more than 154,000 people worldwide. President Dr Arif Alvi made the announcement after a meeting with religious leaders and political […]
Of 14,378 COVID-19 infections, 4,291 cases linked to Markaz event in Delhi: Govt
New Delhi: Of the 14,378 coronavirus infections reported in the country till Saturday morning, 4,291 cases in 23 states and Union Territories are linked to the Markaz event held in Delhi’s Nizamuddin area in March, the Union health ministry said. By Saturday evening, the death toll due to coronavirus infection rose to 488, while the […]
Death toll by COVID-19 reaches 488 in India
14,792 positive cases also reported till Saturday
New Delhi: The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 488 and the number of cases climbed to 14,792 in the country on Saturday, registering an increase of 36 deaths and 957 cases since Friday evening, according to the Union Health Ministry. The number of active COVID-19 cases stood at 12,289 while 2,014 people have […]
US trying to divert public attention: China on coronavirus
Denies any cover-up on COVID-19
Beijing: China on Friday denied covering up the extent of its coronavirus outbreak and accused the US of attempting to divert the public attention by insinuating that the virus originated from a virology laboratory in Wuhan. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman, Zhao Lijian’s comments came as China’s coronavirus death toll mounted to 4,632 after it revised […]
Africa could see 300,000 coronavirus deaths this year: UN Report
Johannesburg: Africa could see 300,000 deaths from the coronavirus even under the best-case scenario, according to a new report released Friday that cites modeling from Imperial College London. Under the worst-case scenario with no interventions against the virus, Africa could see 3.3 million deaths and 1.2 billion infections, the report by the U.N. Economic Commission […]
COVID-19 death toll rises to 452 in India
Cases climb to 13,835: Health Ministry
New Delhi: The death toll due to the novel coronavirus rose to 452 with 32 fatalities reported since Thursday evening, while the number of cases saw a jump of 1,076 to go up to 13,835 cases on Friday, according to the Union Health Ministry. While the number of active COVID-19 cases stood at 11,616, as […]
Second wave of coronavirus pandemic likely in November: Expert
Beijing: China and other countries could be hit by a second wave of coronavirus in November, one of China’s top medical experts has warned as the world’s second largest economy limped back to normalcy after a three-month-long grim battle against the pandemic. Zhang Wenhong, who heads the Covid-19 clinical expert team in Shanghai and leads […]