Europe sends aid to help Tunisia counter COVID surge
TUNIS, July 16 (Reuters) – Italy, Spain and Switzerland sent medical aid on Friday to Tunisia which is facing its worst health crisis since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, with a sharp rise in deaths, hospitals filled to capacity and a lack of oxygen supplies. Deaths from COVID-19 exceeded 150 per day during the […]
Merkel says COVID curbs to stay until more Germans get shots
BERLIN, July 13 (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned on Tuesday that more people needed to be vaccinated against COVID-19 before restrictions could be lifted, following news that England will scrap nearly all curbs from next week. England will lift on July 19 the legal requirement to wear masks and for people to socially […]
Anger mounts after 92 killed in Iraq COVID hospital fire
NASSIRIYA, Iraq, July 13 (Reuters) – The death toll from a fire that tore through a coronavirus hospital in southern Iraq rose to 92, health officials said on Tuesday, as authorities faced accusations of negligence from grieving relatives and a doctor who works there. More than 100 people – patients and visitors – were injured […]
Nigeria’s Lagos state faces “potential third wave” of COVID-19
LAGOS, July 12 (Reuters) – Nigeria’s Lagos state faces a “potential third wave” of coronovirus infections, its governor said in a statement. He warned of fines or even imprisonment for those who break rules to contain the virus and said Lagos state would step up its vaccination campaign, following the detection of the highly infectious […]
Desperate Myanmar residents queue for oxygen as COVID-19 cases surge
July 12 (Reuters) – Myanmar’s military authorities pledged on Monday to ramp up oxygen supplies to help treat COVID-19 patients, as residents described their struggle to secure supplies to save loved-ones from a record-setting wave of infections. Photographs on social media showed long queues of residents in Myanmar’s biggest city Yangon trying to refill oxygen […]
COVID Delta upsurge keeps stock and commodity bulls in check
An upsurge in infections of the Delta coronavirus variant capped equity and commodity gains on Monday and kept bond yields just above multi-month lows, though U.S. tech shares that benefited from COVID-linked lockdowns were tipped to open higher.
India COVID-19 cases rise by 50,040 amid concern about Delta variant
NEW DELHI, June 27 (Reuters) – India’s daily COVID-19 infections rose by 50,040 on Sunday, official data showed, as concerns grew about the detection of the highly infectious Delta variant of the coronavirus in some states. The COVID-19 death toll in the country rose by 1,258, including 511 deaths reported from the state of Maharashtra, […]
Thailand announces new restrictions in Bangkok, other provinces
Thailand on Sunday announced new restrictions centred around its capital in a bid to tackle the country’s worst coronavirus outbreak.
Australia’s Sydney and Darwin in COVID-19 lockdowns
Sydney began a two-week lockdown on Sunday as a cluster of cases of the highly infectious coronavirus Delta variant rose to 110 in Australia’s largest city, while an outbreak in the northern city of Darwin prompted a hard two-day stay-at-home order.
UK health minister ‘very sorry’ after pictured kissing aide
British Health Secretary Matt Hancock said he was “very sorry” after pictures of him kissing and embracing his top aide, a friend hired last year, were splashed on the front page of the Sun newspaper.
