PARIS: The number of deaths in France from the new coronavirus rose by 18 on Wednesday (Jul 1) from the previous day to stand at 29,861, an increase in line with the last week’s daily average but new cases of the COVID-19 disease caused by the virus rose sharply. French […]
Day: July 1, 2020
LONDON: The United Kingdom said China’s imposition of a security law on Hong Kong was a “clear and serious” violation of the 1984 Joint Declaration and that London would offer around 3 million residents of the former colony a path to British citizenship. Hong Kong police on Wednesday (Jul 1) […]
HONG KONG: Sina Weibo, China’s answer to Twitter, said it has deleted Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s account at the request of the Indian embassy, as tensions between the two countries continue to simmer over a border skirmish. Since posting on Sina Weibo for the first time in 2015 during a […]
WASHINGTON: New COVID-19 cases in the United States rose by nearly 50,000 on Wednesday (Jul 1), according to a Reuters tally, marking the biggest one-day spike since the start of the pandemic. The record follows a warning by the government’s top infectious diseases expert that the number could soon double […]
SHANGHAI: China on Thursday (Jul 2) reported three new coronavirus cases in the mainland for Jul 1, compared with three cases a day earlier, the health authority said. Two of the new infections were imported cases, the National Health Commission said in a statement, while the capital city of Beijing […]
SYDNEY: Australian police set up suburban checkpoints in new coronavirus hotspots in Melbourne on Thursday (Jul 2), as authorities struggled to contain new outbreaks in the country’s second-largest city, even as travel restrictions eased elsewhere. Images published by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on Thursday showed police flagging down cars in […]
WELLINGTON: New Zealand’s health minister, David Clark, resigned on Thursday (Jul 2) following recent slip-ups in the government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and personal mistakes. “It has become increasingly clear to me that my continuation in the role is distracting for the government’s overall response to COVID-19 and the […]
The fires are expected to be at their worst in August, like last year, when this photo of a burnt area was taken in Altamira, Para state, Brazil, in the Amazon basin. RIO DE JANEIRO: Amazon forest fires in Brazil increased by 19.5 per cent in June compared to […]
Remdesivir is an experimental medication produced by the US laboratory Gilead Sciences WASHINGTON: Britain and Germany said Wednesday (Jul 2) they had sufficient stocks of remdesivir, the first drug to be shown to be relatively effective in treating COVID-19, and of which the United States has bought almost all […]
SYDNEY: Archaeologists have for the first time found Aboriginal artefacts on the seabed off Australia, opening a door to the discovery of ancient settlements flooded since the last ice age, they reported on Thursday (Jul 2). Hundreds of ancient stone tools made by Australia’s Indigenous people at least 7,000 years […]