LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will travel to India next month in his first major bilateral visit to another country since taking power last year, his office said today. During the trip, Johnson will invite India to join next year’s G7 summit, which Britain is hosting, as one of […]
Day: December 16, 2020
WASHINGTON: Covid and a traumatic presidential election left the US reeling in 2020, but even with Donald Trump gone and Joe Biden promising to heal the nation there’ll be no quick return to normal in 2021. For many in the world’s richest country, 2020 was the year that seemed never-ending […]
WASHINGTON: The United States set a grim double record yesterday notching more than 3,700 deaths and more than 250,000 new Covid-19 cases in 24 hours, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University. The country has seen a spectacular spike in Covid infections for more than a month now, with some […]
SEOUL: South Korea reported a record number of coronavirus deaths today as the country’s largest wave of infections strains hospitals and contact tracers. The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) reported that there had been 22 additional deaths as of midnight yesterday, sharply up from a previous high of […]
SINGAPORE: The World Health Organization said today that China had welcomed an international team of investigators into Covid-19 expected to travel to the country in early January. Babatunde Olowokure, the WHO’s regional emergencies director in the Western Pacific, told a news conference that the organisation was in talks with Beijing […]
WELLINGTON: New Zealand roared back from a coronavirus-induced recession with record economic growth of 14 per cent in the July to September quarter, official data showed on Thursday (Dec 17). The strong figures followed an 11 per cent decline in the previous quarter – when New Zealand was in a […]
FRANKFURT: German streets were quiet “like Sunday” on the first day of a new partial lockdown to try to halt surging infections, as the country reported a record number of Covid-19 deaths. A total of 952 people died in the previous 24 hours, according to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) […]
LONDON: Nearly 140,000 people in the United Kingdom have received their first Covid-19 shots in the first week of roll-out of the vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, the minister in charge of the programme said today. The vaccine was approved for emergency use two weeks ago, with rollout commencing […]