SEOUL: South Korea urged businesses today to have employees work from home after reporting the highest daily number of coronavirus cases since March, as it also flagged the risks of new clusters at call centres and logistics warehouses. South Korea reported 441 new coronavirus cases as of yesterday, the most […]
Year: 2020
SYDNEY: Australia’s Victoria state — epicentre of the nation’s second wave of Covid-19 infections — reported its lowest one-day rise in new cases in nearly two months, buoying hopes a lockdown of nearly five million people has contained spread of the virus. Victoria said it detected 113 new cases in […]
BALTIMORE: US Vice President Mike Pence yesterday cast the re-election of President Donald Trump as critical to preserving law and order and economic viability, warning Democratic rival Joe Biden was a stalking horse for the radical left. Amid widening protests over the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, […]
SEOUL: North Korea was on high alert as Typhoon Bavi made landfall early today, dumping heavy rains and uprooting trees after skirting the coast of South Korea overnight causing some reported damage. North Korea’s KCTV state television broke into broadcasts overnight to report on the storm, showing downed trees and […]
SEOUL: Samsung Electronics plans to allow some workers in South Korea to work from home in September under a pilot programme, a company official said on Thursday (Aug 27), as the country battles a resurgence in novel coronavirus cases. Some employees at Samsung’s mobile phone and consumer electronics divisions are […]
NEW YORK: Amid the COVID-19 pandemic and widespread school closures, at least one-third of students affected around the world lack access to virtual education, according to a United Nations study released on Wednesday (Aug 26). In all, an estimated 463 million children lack the equipment or electronic access to pursue […]
CHRISTCHURCH: New Zealand mosque gunman Brenton Tarrant was sentenced to life in prison without parole today for the massacre of 51 Muslim worshippers, with a judge calling him “wicked” and “inhuman.” Judge Cameron Mander said that behind Tarrant’s “warped” ideology was a “base hatred” that led him to attack defenceless […]
WASHINGTON: The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said this week that people exposed to Covid-19 but not symptomatic may not need to be tested, shocking doctors and politicians and prompting accusations the guidance was politically motivated. The advice marks a reversal of the agency’s previous position recommending […]
WASHINGTON: The United States yesterday blacklisted 24 Chinese companies and targeted individuals it said were part of construction and military actions in the South China Sea, its first such sanctions move against Beijing over the disputed strategic waterway. The US Commerce Department said the two dozen companies played a “role […]
WASHINGTON: The rapid pace of Covid-19 vaccine development and scant information about the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) vaccine review process are leading to concerns, the American Medical Association (AMA) said yesterday. In a letter, the AMA urged the FDA to ensure transparency in the vaccine development process and […]