Tag Archives: Coronavirus

• Second COVID wave swells across US and Europe as winter looms 26 October 2020 | James Mackenzie and Lisa Shumaker This post has no comments yet

  The United States, Russia and France set new daily records for coronavirus infections as a second wave swelled across parts of the Northern Hemisphere, forcing some countries to impose new curbs. ...

• Losing Corona warriors: Indian media’s way 23 October 2020 | Nava Thakuria This post has no comments yet

  The populous country of India has lost nearly 50 working journalists to Covid-19 complications till date, whereas the worldwide media Corona casualties have risen to nearly 450. ...

• Half of Indians likely to have coronavirus by February 19 October 2020 | Shilpa Jamkhandikar This post has no comments yet

  At least half of India’s 1.3 billion people are likely to have been infected with the new coronavirus by next February, helping slow the spread of the disease, a member of a federal government committee tasked with providing projections. ...

• China emerges from the pandemic 12 October 2020 | Warren Serink This post has one comment

  Something nearly unthinkable has happened in China: a return to normal – from morning tai-chi at Beijing's Temple of the Sun, to the lunch crush in the central business district, and the rush home at sunset across the Avenue of Eternal Peac ...

• Nepal warns of healthcare crisis as coronavirus infections cross 100,000 9 October 2020 | Gopal Sharma This post has no comments yet

  Nepal’s total coronavirus infections passed 100,000 on Friday, the health ministry said, and are rising at a faster rate than both Pakistan and Bangladesh which have far larger populations. ...

• Trump, still infectious, back at White House — without mask 6 October 2020 | Zeke Miller, Jill Colvin and Aamer Madhani This post has no comments yet

  US President Donald Trump is back at the White House, dramatically returning from the military hospital where he was receiving an unprecedented level of care for COVID-19. ...

• India’s coronavirus death toll passes 100,000 with no sign of an end 3 October 2020 | Anuron Kumar Mitra and Devjyot Ghoshal This post has no comments yet

  India’s death toll from the novel coronavirus rose past 100,000 on Saturday, only the third country in the world to reach that bleak milestone, after the United States and Brazil, and its epidemic shows no sign of abating. ...

• US President Trump and wife Melania test positive for Coronavirus 2 October 2020 | Jeff Mason This post has 4 comments

  President Donald Trump, who played down the threat of the coronavirus pandemic for months, said on Friday that he and his wife Melania had tested positive for COVID-19 and were going into quarantine, upending the race for the White House. ...

• More than 150 nations join global vaccine plan but US, China absent 21 September 2020 | Stephanie Nebehay and Kate Kelland This post has no comments yet

  Some 156 nations have joined a global scheme for fair distribution of future vaccines against COVID-19, an alliance led by the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday, but superpowers China and the United States did not sign up. ...

• India’s coronavirus cases pass 5 million 16 September 2020 | Jalees Andrabi This post has no comments yet

  India's total coronavirus cases passed five million on Wednesday, health ministry data showed, as the pandemic extends its grip on the vast country at an ever-faster rate. ...