Tag: COVID-19

• Thursday, April 16th 2020 - 11:32 UTC

  US trying to determine if COVID-19 emanated from a lab in Wuhan

  

  US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that his government is trying to determine whether the coronavirus emanated from a lab in Wuhan, China, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Beijing “needs to come clean” what they know.

• Thursday, April 16th 2020 - 11:10 UTC

  G20 supports temporary halt to debt payments by world's poorest nations

  

  The Group of 20 nations announced support on Wednesday for a temporary halt to debt payments by the world's poorest nations as they struggle to deal with the coronavirus pandemic.

• Thursday, April 16th 2020 - 11:08 UTC

  China argues WHO said there is no evidence the coronavirus was created in a lab

  

  Beijing's lockdown ahead of a possible resurgence of coronavirus infection e World Health Organization has said that there was no evidence the coronavirus that has infected more than 2 million people globally was created in a lab.

• Thursday, April 16th 2020 - 11:04 UTC

  IMF fears social unrest could erupt if measures to mitigate pandemic are seen as unfair or insufficient

  

  New waves of social unrest could erupt in some countries if government measures to mitigate the coronavirus pandemic are seen as insufficient or unfairly favoring the wealthy, the IMF said in a new report on Wednesday.

• Thursday, April 16th 2020 - 10:59 UTC

  End of “Greg Mortimer” cruise ordeal: last fifteen passengers flying to US and UK

  

  The final leg of the humanitarian repatriation of passengers on board an Antarctic cruise, stranded in Uruguay and most of them testing positive for coronavirus, ended Wednesday afternoon when they boarded in Uruguay's Carrasco international airport a sanitary charter to Miami.

• Thursday, April 16th 2020 - 10:59 UTC

  A 106-year-old great granny “beats” coronavirus and anxious to see her family

  

  A 106-year-old great-grandmother, thought to be the oldest patient in Britain to beat the novel coronavirus, was discharged from hospital to applause from nurses and health workers.

• Thursday, April 16th 2020 - 10:54 UTC

  Melinda Gates describes Trump's de-funding of WHO dangerous and nonsensical

  

  Pulling funding from the World Health Organization (WHO) is a dangerous and nonsensical move when the world is facing the health crisis brought by the COVID-19 disease pandemic, Melinda Gates said on Wednesday.

• Thursday, April 16th 2020 - 10:44 UTC

  Tracking technology with Smartphone software questioned by US senator fearing privacy violation

  

  Smartphone software makers Alphabet's Google and Apple will have to convince the public that any contact tracking technology to track who has been exposed to the new coronavirus will not lead to a violation of their privacy, Senator Richard Blumenthal said on Wednesday.

• Thursday, April 16th 2020 - 08:20 UTC

  Beijing's lockdown ahead of a possible resurgence of coronavirus infection

  

  Beijing has virtually walled itself off to outsiders with drastic measures to protect China's seat of power against the threat of a second wave of coronavirus infections from other regions. After largely getting the outbreak under control, China has banned foreigners from entering the country as authorities fret over an increase in cases imported from abroad - though most have been Chinese citizens.

• Wednesday, April 15th 2020 - 13:51 UTC

  Argentina is readying to announce terms of the US$ 83bn debt restructure

  

  Argentina is expected to announce an offer to restructure US$ 83 billion in foreign-currency bonds any moment as it tries to avoid default, despite shutting down the economy to contain the spread of the coronavirus.