Coronavirus Updates
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Hong Kong sets to close down restaurants, with mandatory face mask
Hong Kong on Monday will announce further restrictions to curb the surge in coronavirus cases, including a total ban on restaurant dining and mandated facemasks outdoors, media reported. The new rule…
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Asia wrestles second wave of covid-19 with new restrictions, lockdown
Countries around Asia are confronting a second wave of coronavirus infections and are clamping down again to try to contain the disease, with Australia recording a record daily rise in cases and Viet…
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Indonesia: Teachers adopt new ways to teach kindergarten amid pandemic
As schools struggle to keep pupils engaged during the pandemic, a kindergarten on Indonesia’s Java island is getting pupils back in the classroom using makeshift transparent cubicles and also sending…
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Vietnam: 80,000 citizens to be evacuated as 3 residents test positive for coronavirus
Vietnam is evacuating 80,000 people, mostly local tourists, from the central tourism hot spot of Danang after three residents tested positive for the coronavirus at the weekend, the government said o…
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U.S records 4,163,892 covid-19 cases
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Sunday reported 4,163,892 cases of the coronavirus, an increase of 64,582 cases from its previous daily count, and said the number of deat…
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Moderna receives additional $472m from U.S Govt towards covid-19 vaccine
Moderna Inc said on Sunday it has received an additional $472 million from the U.S. government’s Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) to support development of its novel cor…
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Florida overtakes New York to affirm 9,300 fresh coronavirus cases
Florida on Sunday became the second state after California to overtake New York, the worst-hit state at the start of the U.S. novel coronavirus outbreak, according to a Reuters tally. Total COVID-19 …
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Ghana’s coronavirus cases limp
Ghana’s Covid-19 case count has recorded 794 more bringing the total to 31, 851 as of July 22. However, data on the Ghana Health Service website has shown that the fatalities have remained 161, the s…
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Tourists fume as UK defends decision on mandatory 2-week quarantine on Spanish arrivals
British foreign minister Dominic Raab on Sunday stood by his government’s abrupt decision to impose a two-week coronavirus quarantine on travellers returning from Spain, which has provoked anger and …
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Japan’s J.League cancel match as players test positive for covid-19
Japan’s J.League said on Sunday it was cancelling a soccer match between Nagoya Grampus and Sanfrecce Hiroshima scheduled later in the day after players tested positive for the coronavirus. Two playe…