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Sat, May 15, 2021 | 11:58

SOS messages, panic as virus breaks India's health system

Dr. Gautam Singh dreads the daily advent of the ventilator beeps, signaling that oxygen levels are critically low, and hearing his desperately ill patients start gasping for air in the New Delhi emergency ward where he works

2021-04-27 10:59

Philippines seeks to lift medical capacity as COVID-19 cases top one million

The Philippines announced on Monday that its COVID-19 cases had exceeded one million, as the country sought to boost healthcare capacity to ease strains on hospitals and medical staff stretched by a second wave of infections. The Philippines imposed a two-week lockdown of Manila and surrounding provinces late last month to try to stem a surge in cases blamed on more contagiou...

2021-04-26 21:25

Kazakhstan rolls out homegrown coronavirus vaccine

gettyimagesbankKazakhstan on Monday rolled out its homegrown coronavirus vaccine, with the Central Asian country's health minister receiving the jab on live television.QazCovid-in, also known as QazVac, is a two-shot vaccine that is currently in third stage trials. The state broadcaster Khabar said that 50,000 doses of the vaccine developed by the state-backed Research Instit...

2021-04-26 15:10

EU will let vaccinated Americans visit this summer

Hong Kong, Singapore to start travel bubble next month

A long delayed travel bubble between Hong Kong and Singapore will begin on May 26, the two cities said on Monday, as they moved to re-establish overseas travel links and lift the hurdle of quarantine for visiting foreigners. The bubble between two of Asia's biggest financial hubs had been slated to begin last November but was suspended after a spike in coronavirus cases in Ho...

2021-04-26 14:16

EU will let vaccinated Americans visit this summer

US to send aid to India to battle COVID-19 crisis

The United States is deeply concerned by a massive surge in coronavirus cases in India and plans to quickly deploy additional support to the Indian government and health care workers, a White House spokeswoman said on Saturday.

2021-04-26 11:43

UK denies report that PM Johnson said 'let the bodies pile high'

Fire kills 82 at Iraqi COVID-19 hospital, health minister suspended

More than 80 people died Sunday when a fire ripped through a Baghdad hospital for Covid-19 patients, sparking outrage and the suspension of top officials overseeing Iraq's crumbling health services. The blaze at eastern Baghdad's Ibn al-Khatib hospital began when badly stored oxygen cylinders blew up, medics said. Many of the victims were on respirators and were burned or suf...

2021-04-26 10:31

Sunken missing Indonesian submarine found cracked open by rescuers

A missing Indonesian submarine has been found, broken into at least three parts, deep in the Bali Sea, army and navy officials said on Sunday, as the president sent condolences to relatives of the 53 crew.

2021-04-25 20:55

Rescuers find debris thought to be from sunken Indonesian submarine

On another lonely Anzac Day, solitary memorials stand out

On another Anzac Day turned lonesome by the global pandemic, solitary actions showed all the more how the sacrifices of Australia and New Zealand during World War I are far from forgotten. While global attention turned at dawn Sunday to the beaches of Turkey's Gallipoli where the two emerging countries crafted a sense of nationhood from the horrors of war in April 1915, all a...

2021-04-25 20:09

India coronavirus cases set new global record, US readies help

India set a new global record of the most number of coronavirus infections in a day, as the United States said it was racing to send help to the country. India's number of cases surged by 349,691 in the past 24 hours, the fourth straight day of record peaks, and hospitals in Delhi and across the country are turning away patients after running out of medical oxygen and beds.

2021-04-25 16:18

Daily record of more than 893,000 Covid cases worldwide: AFP count

Myanmar people slam ASEAN-junta consensus to end violence, but no immediate protests

People in Myanmar on Sunday criticised an agreement between the country's junta chief and Southeast Asian leaders to end the violence-hit nation's crisis, saying it fell short of restoring democracy and holding the army accountable for hundreds of civilian deaths. There were no immediate protests in Myanmar's big cities a day after the meeting of the Association of Southeast ...

2021-04-25 13:37

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