North Korea reported 42 deaths on Sunday, as the country entered its fourth day of a national lockdown aimed at containing the impoverished country’s first documented Covid-19 outbreak. According to the publication, at least 296,180 additional people developed fever symptoms, and 15 more perished as of Sunday. North Korea’s admission on Thursday that it is … Read more
MANCHESTER: Manchester United manager Ralf Rangnick has almost a full squad to choose from for Monday’s Premier League clash at Newcastle after a Covid-19 outbreak saw their last two matches postponed. Only the injured Paul Pogba is unavailable to the interim manager for the Red Devils first game in 16 days. United’s games against Brentford … Read more
BEIJING, Dec 14, 2021 (AFP) – China’s economically important Zhejiang province wrestled on Tuesday with a Covid outbreak that has caused some districts to shut down businesses and left hundreds of thousands of people facing quarantine or other restrictions. Zhejiang, a major industrial and export hub on the country’s east coast, reported 44 of China’s 51 … Read more
SHANGHAI: China’s government has urged citizens to stock up on daily necessities and for authorities to take steps to ensure adequate food supplies as the country adopts increasingly tight measures to contain its latest Covid outbreak. A notice posted on the website of the Ministry of Commerce late on Monday urged “families to store a … Read more
BEIJING: Beijing officials on Friday told residents to postpone weddings and keep funeral ceremonies short, as disease controls across China were tightened just months before the Winter Olympics kicks off in the capital. The world’s most populous nation has reduced infection numbers to a trickle since its initial epidemic last spring thanks to a zero-tolerance … Read more
