ZURICH: Coronavirus infections rose by 17,440 over the weekend, data from Swiss health authorities showed today, as the government considers tightening restrictions meant to slow the accelerating spread of Covid-19. The total confirmed cases in Switzerland and tiny neighbouring principality Liechtenstein rose to 121,093, and the death toll jumped by […]
Month: October 2020
MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Tuesday (Oct 27) that he prefers a government-to-government deal for the purchase of COVID-19 vaccines to prevent the risk of corruption, adding that Manila would not beg other nations for access to vaccines. The Philippines, with its more than 108 million people and […]
WASHINGTON: The Republican-controlled US Senate handed President Donald Trump a major pre-election political victory yesterday by confirming his Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, with the White House planning a celebratory event afterward. The Senate voted 52-48, with Democrats unified in opposing Barrett’s confirmation, which creates a 6-3 conservative majority […]
ROME: Rome Mayor Virginia Raggi said yesterday organised crime groups planned to kill her and her family because she was taking them on in parts of the Italian capital where they hold sway. Raggi became the Eternal City’s first-ever woman mayor when she was elected in 2016 in a major […]
MILAN: The United States, Russia, France and many other countries are setting records for coronavirus infections as a tidal wave of cases washes over parts of the Northern Hemisphere, forcing some countries to impose new curbs. The gloom weighed on global financial markets yesterday as surging infections clouded the economic […]
DUBAI: Iran extended Covid-19 curbs in Tehran and across the country today as health authorities said they were recording a death from the virus every four minutes. Some hospitals had run out of beds to treat new patients, the head of the national coronavirus task-force told state TV. “Our doctors […]
Jodie Whittaker said she panicked thinking she had got the character “all wrong” when she watched Peter Capaldi’s Doctor Who regenerated into her version. Actor Jodie Whittaker says when she watched Peter Capaldi’s Doctor Who regenerate into her version on the popular sci-fi series, she panicked thinking she had got […]
BERLIN: Germany has suffered more than 10,000 COVID-19 deaths since the start of the pandemic, according to official data published on Saturday (Oct 24). A total of 10,003 deaths have been recorded by the Robert Koch Institute, a federal government agency, with 418,005 infections recorded nationwide. Of those, 14,714 were […]
FLORIDA: US President Donald Trump promised supporters in Florida on Friday (Oct 23) that the COVID-19 pandemic would end soon and accused Democratic rival Joe Biden of overstating the health crisis to scare Americans into voting for him. The pandemic, which has killed more than 224,000 people in the United […]
GENEVA: The world is now at a critical juncture in the COVID-19 pandemic and some countries are on a dangerous path, facing the prospect of health services collapsing under the strain, the head of the World Health Organization said on Friday (Oct 23). “We are at a critical juncture in […]