Coronavirus

An Afghan health worker administers polio drops to a child during a four-day anti-polio vaccination campaign in Kandahar, Afghanistan, 15 March 2023. Photo: EPA
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26 April 2023
UN launches major push for child vaccination amid Covid
The existence of the lab has fuelled conspiracy theories that the germ spread from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, specifically its P4 laboratory (AFP Photo/ Hector RETAMAL)
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20 April 2020
Director of Wuhan lab denies virus link
The director of a maximum-security laboratory in China's coronavirus ground-zero city of...
A view of a nearly-deserted road in Connaught Place, one of the business and financial hubs in New Delhi, India, 17 April 2020. Photo: EPA
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20 April 2020
Delhi's COVID-19 count over 2000
With 110 new COVID-19 cases and 2 deaths in the national capital on Sunday, Delhi's count...
Bago Industrial Zone. Photo: Twitter@INOAC_ITH
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20 April 2020
Factories in Bago region to close until end-April
Bago Region Industrial Zone Management Committee released a statement that the factories...
Zaw Than Htun, director general of Myanmar’s Medical Research Center (right), Lee Sang-hwa, South Korea’s ambassador to Myanmar (center), and Lee Sang-hoon, the regional managing director of Posco International, pose in Myanmar on Saturday. Photo: Posco International
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20 April 2020
Korea’s Posco sends virus test kits to Myanmar
Posco International has sent 100 virus test kits that can run 10,000 tests to Myanmar, as...
Photo: Covid 19 - True Information Myanmar/Facebook
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20 April 2020
Seven townships under ‘stay at home orders’ as...
The Ministry of Health and Sports issued “Stay at Home” orders in seven townships to...
This handout photo taken and released on April 5, 2020 by the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency shows a wooden boat carrying suspected Rohingya migrants detained in Malaysian territorial waters off the island of Langkawi. Photo: AFP
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19 April 2020
Malaysia turns back refugee boat over virus fears
Malaysia has denied entry to a boat carrying about 200 Rohingya due to coronavirus fears...
A general view of almost deserted roads amid the novel coronavirus pandemic lockdown in Bangalore, India, 17 April 2020. Photo: EPA
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18 April 2020
India's COVID-19 cases surge to 13,835
New Delhi [India], April 17 (ANI): With 1,076 new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours...
People cycle past closed shops on Regent Street in London, Britain, 14 April 2020. Photo: EPA
Business
18 April 2020
US stocks open higher on hopes for faster...
Wall Street stocks opened higher Friday, boosted by a report of positive preliminary...
Bangladeshi garment workers, some wearing protective face masks, block a road during a protest to demand payment of wages in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 15 April 2020. Photo: EPA
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18 April 2020
Fast-fashion nightmare for Bangladeshi clothes...
One day Parvin was toiling to meet the fast-fashion demands of European capitals, the...
US President Donald Trump (R) speaks during a press briefing with members of the coronavirus task force in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC, USA, 17 April 2020. Photo: EPA
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18 April 2020
Global virus deaths pass 150,000 as Trump says...
World coronavirus deaths rose past 150,000 Friday as US President Donald Trump accused...
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18 April 2020
Pan Pacific Hotel locks down after coronavirus...
Pan Pacific Hotel in Yangon made an announcement that they would put their hotel under...
A general view of the Botanic Garden bus station in Noida, near New Delhi, India, 13 April 2020. Photo: EPA
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17 April 2020
Trial of plasma enrichment technique to treat...
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday said that doctors will soon start the...

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