PM ADDRESSES THE NATION: JANATA CURFEW & JANATA THANK THIS SUNDAY In his address to the nation Thursday on the coronavirus threat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi cautioned against complacency on the pandemic while asking people to observe a self-imposed curfew on Sunday&n
XI CALLS FOR COOPERATION IN VIRUS FIGHT China will strengthen international cooperation on novel coronavirus epidemic control and continue to provide assistance within its ability to countries affected by the epidemic, Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee,
CHINA REPORTS ZERO NEW DOMESTIC VIRUS CASES FOR 1ST TIMEBEIJING - China on Thursday marked a major milestone in its battle againstthe coronavirus pandemic as it recorded zero domestic infections for thefirst time since the outbreak emerged, but a spike in imported casesthreatened its progr
A WORD ABOUT HERD IMMUNITYLast week, the UK’s Government Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance hinted at a strategy that would allow the novel coronavirus to infect 60% of the country’s population so that a degree of “herd immunity” could be achieved. Following widesp
COVID-19: PM MODI TO ADDRESS NATION TODAY: INFECTION COUNT AT 151India is looking at expanding the pool of random testing samples for COVID-19 to include patients with atypical pneumonia, which presents symptoms slightly different from pneumonia. WHO country representative Dr Henk Bekedam said
U.S. AND CHINA EXCHANGE BARBS OVER COVID-19A spat between the U.S. and China over COVID-19 escalated on Tuesday asPresident Donald Trump angered Beijing by referring to the pathogen as the"Chinese Virus."The two countries have sparred over the origin of the virus for days, with aChinese of
FULL SALARIES, BUT NO EARLY RELEASE OF 13TH MONTH PAY FOR GOV'T WORKERS — DBMMANILA — The country's biggest employer, the national government, is takingthe lead on sustaining its workers as business got essentially shut off themain Luzon island under a month-long community qua
ICMR RANDOM TESTS SHOW NO COMMUNITY SPREAD SO FAR, WHO PRAISES GOVTThe first batch of results for tests done by the Indian Council of MedicalResearch (ICMR) in March to check for community transmission of coronavirusare negative.The ICMR had picked 1,020 random samples of people with severe acuteres
PRESIDENT BACKS ITALY'S FIGHT AGAINST COVID-19 China firmly supports Italy's efforts to fight the novel coronavirus pneumonia epidemic and is fully confident that Italy will win the battle against the virus, President Xi Jinping said. He made the remark in a phone call with Italian Prime Minister G
ANGER IN GERMANY AT REPORT TRUMP SEEKING EXCLUSIVE VACCINE DEALGerman ministers have reacted angrily following reports US president DonaldTrump offered a German medical company “large sums of money” for exclusiverights to a Covid-19 vaccine.“Germany is not for sale,” economy