ISLAMABAD, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) — Pakistan confirmed 1,649 new COVID-19 cases and three more deaths during the past 24 hours, the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC) said on Monday. The NCOC, a department leading the nation’s campaign against the pandemic, said the overall cases in the country surged to 1,305,707 while 1,258,987 of them … Read more
YANGON, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) — Myanmar reported 357 new COVID-19 cases with seven more deaths in the past 24 hours, according to a release from the Ministry of Health on Saturday. The number of total COVID-19 cases in the country had risen to 526,381 while the death toll had increased to 19,177 on Saturday, the … Read more
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 6 (Xinhua) — Malaysia reported 4,298 new COVID-19 infections as of midnight Sunday, bringing the national total to 2,658,772, according to the health ministry. Some 23 of the new cases are imported, with 4,275 being local transmissions, data released on the ministry’s website showed. Another 40 deaths have been reported, bringing the … Read more
LONDON: Opec+ oil producers meet on Thursday under pressure from US President Joe Biden, who has opened up his country’s taps hoping to bring down crude prices, and a new Covid-19 variant that has complicated the equation. The meeting “is shaping up to be one of the most significant since the pandemic demand recovery began, … Read more
RIYADH: The Opec+ group is likely to take a cautious stance when deciding next week whether to go ahead with the planned production increases; following the discovery of a new Covid-19 variant, Arab News quoted Geneva-based oil trader Vitol Group, as saying. The new variant, named Omicron, has rattled the oil market globally, pushing prices down to … Read more
GENEVA: Europe reported almost two million new Covid-19 infections last week, the largest weekly case count in the region since the start of the pandemic, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said here on Friday. There were also almost 27,000 coronavirus-related deaths in Europe, more than half of all Covid-19 deaths in the world last week, … Read more
