South Korea is scrambling to get a new COVID-19 outbreak under control as cases connected to a patient who visited several Seoul nightlife venues at the beginning of May mount. ( read original story ...)
South Korea struggles to contain new outbreak amid anti-gay backlash
Fears people will fail to get tested out of fear after new cases linked to Seoul gay district ... ( read original story ...)
Coronavirus latest: South Korea delays reopening schools as fears rise over new cluster
South Korea delays reopening schools as fears rise over new cluster South Korea has been forced to delay reopening schools, which it had planned to do this week, as efforts to relax social distancing ... ( read original story ...)
South Korea nightclub cases highlight fear of virus 2nd wave
The difficulty in trying to reopen economies without rekindling coronavirus outbreaks was highlighted on Monday as concern grew in South Korea about a second wave ... ( read original story ...)
Tracing South Korea’s latest virus outbreak shoves LGBTQ community into unwelcome spotlight
Authorities say they need to know everyone who was in one nightlife district, even if they don’t want to be found. ( read original story ...)
Dozens of local food banks spring up in Thailand as virus hits incomes
Villages and urban communities in Thailand have turned to helping neighbours left jobless due to the coronavirus lockdown by creating dozens of local food banks comprising instant noodles, canned food ... ( read original story ...)
Medical Tourism Drop Hits Core of Thailand’s Bumrungrad Hospital
Bumrungrad Hospital Pcl said the plunge in medical tourists traveling to Thailand amid the coronavirus pandemic has squeezed its business, as the majority of the health-care operator’s revenue ... ( read original story ...)
Iran friendly fire missile strike in drill kills 19 sailors
An Iranian missile fired during a training exercise in the Gulf of Oman struck a support vessel near its target, killing 19 Iranian sailors and wounding 15, Iran’s military ... ( read original story ...)
Coronavirus, Iran, Jerry Stiller: Your Monday Briefing
Jerry Stiller has died at 92. The classically trained actor became a comedy star twice: in the 1960s with his wife and in the ’90s on “Seinfeld.” In a Times Op-Ed, Mary McCord, a former Justice ... ( read original story ...)
Iran says 19 sailors killed, 15 wounded in missile “accident” at sea
Missile fired bv one ship hit a second vessel that was too close to the intended target, Iranian media say. The mere reporting of the incident by Tehran points to its severity. ( read original story ...)