Thailand tells market buyers to seek tests as coronavirus cases climb
Author: Reuters ID: 1608623622735797900 Tue, 2020-12-22 07:07 SAMUT SAKHON, Thailand: Thailand confirmed 427 new coronavirus infections and urged about 1,000 people spanning a quarter...
Germany bans UK, S.Africa arrivals until Jan 6
Author: AFP ID: 1608628894426001700 Tue, 2020-12-22 09:20 BERLIN: Germany on Tuesday extended a ban on arrivals from Britain and South Africa until January 6...
BioNTech CEO confident COVID-19 vaccine will work on UK variant
Author: AP ID: 1608628567665994600 Tue, 2020-12-22 09:09 BERLIN: German pharmaceutical company BioNTech is confident that its coronavirus vaccine works against the new UK variant,...
Spain holds huge Christmas lottery with virus restrictions
Author: Associated Press ID: 1608630178376056000 Tue, 2020-12-22 09:39 MADRID: Children from Madrid’s San Ildefonso school have begun calling out prize-winning numbers in Spain’s bumper...
Carelessness may be fueling rapid spread of coronavirus mutation in UK, say WHO experts
Author: Tue, 2020-12-22 12:42 NEW YORK: World Health Organization (WHO) officials on Monday said the novel coronavirus is mutating “at a much slower rate”...
Kremlin says Navalny suffers ‘delusions of persecution’
Author: AFP ID: 1608634177766259500 Tue, 2020-12-22 10:47 MOSCOW: The Kremlin said on Tuesday that opposition leader Alexei Navalny was a “sick” man who suffered...
US warship sails by China-claimed Spratly Islands
Author: AFP ID: 1608636634346385200 Tue, 2020-12-22 11:25 WASHINGTON: An American warship sailed through waters off the contested Spratly Islands in the South China Sea...
Taiwan reports first local Covid-19 case in more than 250 days
Taiwan has recorded its first locally-transmitted case of coronavirus since April. The island has had one of the most successful pandemic responses in the...
Seoul is facing an ICU bed shortage. See how the city is trying to tackle it
South Korea, once considered a model nation in combating Covid-19, now faces a dire shortage of ICU beds for coronavirus patients. CNN’s Paula Hancocks...
US strikes at the heart of China’s bid to become a tech superpower
China had been counting on its biggest chipmaker to help the country eventually reduce its reliance on the likes of Intel and Samsung. The...
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