SINGAPORE: Singapore’s economy grew 7.2 per cent last year, rebounding from its worst recession since independence sparked by the coronavirus pandemic, government data showed on Monday. The city-state plunged into its worst economic performance in 2020 as businesses and international borders shut down, choking its trade and tourism economic lifeline. Authorities initially imposed tough measures to … Read more
SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) — South Korea on Monday confirmed its first two deaths linked to the Omicron COVID-19 variant amid rising worry about the highly transmissible variant. Two people in their 90s, who had been hospitalized at a nursing hospital in Gwangju, about 330 km south of Seoul, posthumously tested positive for the variant, … Read more
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 1 (Xinhua) — Malaysia reported another 3,573 new COVID-19 infections, as of midnight Friday, bringing the national total to 2,758,086, according to the health ministry. A total of 343 new cases were imported, and 3,230 were local transmissions, data released on the ministry’s website showed. Twenty five more deaths were reported, bringing … Read more
ISLAMABAD, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) — Pakistan added 515 new COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC) said on Friday. The overall tally of the infected people climbed to 1,295,376 across the country, said the NCOC, the department leading Pakistan’s campaign against the pandemic. A total of 28,927 people … Read more
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) — Malaysia reported another 2,897 new COVID-19 infections as of midnight Tuesday, bringing the national total to 2,746,833, according to the health ministry. Another 192 cases are imported, with 2,705 being local transmissions, data released on the ministry’s website showed. Twenty-three more deaths have been reported, bringing the death toll … Read more
LUSAKA: At least 12 people were injured when a train they were travelling in derailed in western Zambia, the country’s railway operator said on Saturday. The train which derailed on Friday evening resulted in two wagons capsizing, injuring the 12 people. The accident happened between the towns of Livingstone and Mulobezi. Caristo Chitamfya, Public Relations … Read more
Russia reported record numbers of daily coronavirus cases and deaths on Thursday as Moscow shut down non-essential services for 11 days to combat the surge in infections. The country hardest-hit in Europe by the pandemic, Russia has struggled with low vaccination rates despite developing several of its own jabs. Recent weeks have seen daily numbers … Read more
MOSCOW: The new figures bring Russia’s official death toll to 226,353 — the highest on the continent even as authorities have been accused of vastly downplaying the severity of the pandemic. The country also recorded 34,074 new virus cases, according to an official tally. Infection rates have soared in recent weeks amid a stalled vaccination program, … Read more
MOSCOW: At least six people onboard died after a Russian An-26 military transport aircraft crashed on Thursday, the TASS news agency reported. According to a source from the emergencies ministry, none of the crew on board the aircraft survived, as debris from the plane was spotted earlier by rescuers near the city of Khabarovsk in … Read more
JALALABAD: At least two people were killed and 19 others were wounded in separate explosions in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad on Saturday, according to a health official and local media. The attacks, which targeted Taliban vehicles, are the first deadly blasts since the American withdrawal from Afghanistan. An official from the health department … Read more
ABUJA: The cholera outbreak in Nigeria has killed 2,323 people in the country since its onset in January, the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) said on Tuesday. In a statement on Tuesday, the NCDC said 46 new deaths were linked to the outbreak across the country between August 30 and Septembner 5. The public … Read more
NEW DELHI: At least eight persons, including two women and two children died and six others sustained injuries when the vehicle they were travelling in collided with a truck coming from the opposite direction in India’s southern state of Karnataka, a local cop confirmed on Monday. The road mishap occurred in the state’s Chintamani area … Read more
SHIJIAZHUANG: At least six people died of suffocation on Saturday at a factory in the city of Baoding, in north China’s Hebei Province, according to local authorities. The accident took place around 3 a.m. on Saturday when a worker at a down-jacket factory in Daxinzhuang Village, Xushui District, fainted while checking the water pump in … Read more
Mumbai: Indian authorities are restricting major religious festivals that start this week and attract huge crowds, warning that a new Covid-19 wave had already begun in the financial capital Mumbai. State governments across the country of 1.3 billion people, which saw a devastating coronavirus surge in April-May, are clamping down on mass gatherings. “The third … Read more
BRAZZAVILLE: At least 129 people died in an outbreak of meningitis in a northeastern province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in Central Africa, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said in a statement on Wednesday. The DRC has declared an outbreak of meningitis in the northeastern Tshopo Province where 261 people have been … Read more
LAGOS: The death toll from the cholera outbreak in Nigeria since January has hit 2,141 among more than 65,000 suspected cases, said the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC). In the latest update on the cholera outbreak reaching Xinhua on Tuesday, the health agency said a total of 65,145 suspected cholera cases have been reported … Read more
JAKARTA: Flash floods triggered by torrential rains in a village in the Indonesian province of East Nusa Tenggara early Saturday have left at least two people dead and one still missing, the country’s National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) said. The agency also said that at least 26 residents in Inerie village in Ngada district were … Read more
COLOMBO: The number of people infected with dengue fever has risen to 18,000 in Sri Lanka so far this year and the virus has caused 10 deaths, as per the health officials. Most recently, over 500 confirmed dengue cases were reported and over 100 of them were in Colombo, they said. Health officials also said … Read more
KIEV: At least nine Ukrainian servicemen were killed and another 28 were wounded as a result of escalating hostilities in eastern Ukraine over the past month, Ukraine’s Commissioner for Human Rights Lyudmyla Denisova said on Tuesday. On her Facebook page, Denisova called on the international community to use all available tools to help end the … Read more
JAKARTA: At least three people were killed and two others went missing after landslides hit houses in west Indonesia’s North Sumatra province in the wee hours of Friday, local media reported. Heavy rains have pounded the province’s Karo district in the past few days, triggering the deadly torrent. Head of the Medan Search and Rescue … Read more
CHONGQING: Torrential rains and floods have affected more than 3,000 people in southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality, the municipal flood control and drought relief headquarters said on Thursday. Heavy rains since Wednesday had hit 29 districts and counties in Chongqing, with Dongsheng Village of Qijiang District recording the heaviest daily rainfall at 174.5 mm. However, on … Read more
Venezuela: At least 15 people died in the Venezuelan Andes after heavy rains triggered mud and rock slides, authorities said on Tuesday. Several hours of downpours in the Mocoties Valley, a farming region in western Merida state that attracts a lot of tourists, caused boulders to tumble down mountainsides, blocking off roads. Jehyson Guzman, an … Read more
NEW DELHI: India may be entering an endemic stage of the Covid-19 pandemic where there is a low or moderate level of transmission going on, said WHO Chief Scientist, Soumya Swaminathan. Swaminathan made the comments in an interview with a local news portal The Wire on Tuesday. “We may be entering some kind of stage … Read more
LAHORE: At least 36,000 people lost their lives while over 3.3 million others were injured in road accidents across Punjab, according to the 17-year official data of Rescue 1122. The data further revealed that over 2.88 million road incidents also left 3.3 million people injured including 2.7 million (82 per cent) males and 0.67 million … Read more
The total number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Pakistan during the last 24 hours rises to 37,218 with 803 deaths. Overall 13,914 cases have so far been detected in Punjab, 14,099 in Sindh, 5,423 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 2,310 in Balochistan, 501 in Gilgit Baltistan, 866 in Islamabad and 105 in Azad Kashmir. A total of … Read more
Pakistan confirms more than 500 deaths due to the novel coronavirus also known as Covid-19, after 40 more deaths reported in past 24 hours. National Command and Operation Centre said that Pakistan confirms 526 deaths due to the novel coronavirus also known as Covid-19, after 40 more deaths reported in past 24 hours. However the … Read more
President of the United States (US President) Donald Trump has warned for de-funding World Health Organization (WHO) accusing it to be bias for China. In his latest press briefing, US President Donald Trump said; “They missed the call. They could have called it months earlier.” “They would have known. And they should’ve known.” “And they … Read more
The coronavirus has killed over more than 70,000 people around the planet. According to the details, deadly COVID-19 has reached every corner of earth and restricted the half of the population to their homes. The world leaders has also infected by this virus. Prime Minister of UK, Boris Johnson has been shifted to hospital. Queen … Read more
