About 500 people entered self-isolation at India’ on Tuesday after a worker’s relative tested positive for the coronavirus in the latest alarm close to public figures as the pandemic spreads through ... ( read original story ...)
Indonesia Extends Partial Lockdown in Capital to Curb Virus
Indonesia extended stringent social distancing rules in Jakarta, home to more than 10 million people, as the capital region continued to remain the epicenter of infections in the Southeast Asian ... ( read original story ...)
Coronavirus: The controversy over ‘India’s first virus fatality’
It is the last day of February. Siddiqui has just returned to India after a month-long stay with his younger son, who works as a dentist in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The 76-year-old Islamic scholar and ... ( read original story ...)
US blames China for delayed virus response, but pulls funding from World Health Organization
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused the Chinese government of delaying notification about the novel coronavirus to the World Health Organization. ( read original story ...)
Missouri and Mississippi sue China over coronavirus
The state of Missouri became the first to sue the Chinese government over the coronavirus pandemic Thursday, followed by Mississippi, alleging the communist country didn't do enough to stop the deadly ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong Charges Teens With Murder Tied to Protests
Charges related to a man who was hit on the head by a brick thrown during an antigovernment protest last year is the most serious criminal indictment yet over the unrest. ( read original story ...)
Ritz buyer revealed as brother-in-law of Qatar’s ruler
Filings at the UK’s Companies House show that the hotel is now owned by Qatari businessman Abdulhadi Mana Al-Hajri, who is the brother of Sheikha Al-Anoud, the second wife of Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al ... ( read original story ...)
Access and benefit-sharing following the synthesis of horsepox virus
The strain of HPXV that was synthesized was based on a genetic sequence originally isolated from horses in Mongolia in 1976. This strain is now stored at the US Centers for Disease Control and ... ( read original story ...)
BREAKING: Georgia confirms 20,740 coronavirus cases, 836 deaths
State health officials have verified an additional 574 cases of the new coronavirus and 18 more deaths Wednesday. The latest data from the Georgia Department of Public Health shows 20,740 confirmed ... ( read original story ...)
‘I’d Rather Be Alive’: Why Some Georgia Business Owners Are Not Reopening
With more than 20,000 confirmed cases and 818 deaths due to the coronavirus in Georgia, Kemp is pitching the reopening of nonessential businesses as an unshackling of the private sector that will jump ... ( read original story ...)