Tag Archives: COVID-19

• India to provide free food grains to millions of migrant workers 14 May 2020 | Aftab Ahmed and Manoj Kumar This post has no comments yet

  India will provide free food grains to millions of migrant workers hardest hit by a weeks-long lockdown as well as offer employment under a rural jobs program, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Thursday. ...

• Ignoring social distancing, protesters mock Hong Kong leader Lam on her birthday 13 May 2020 | Jessie Pang and Joyce Zhou This post has one comment

  Hundreds of protesters gathered in shopping malls across Hong Kong on Wednesday, flouting coronavirus-related social distancing rules to mock unpopular Chief Executive Carrie Lam on her birthday. ...

• PM Modi announces $266 billion to boost pandemic-hit economy 12 May 2020 | Aftab Ahmed and Nidhi Verma This post has no comments yet

  Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday that India would provide 20 trillion rupees ($266 billion) in fiscal and monetary measures to support an economy battered by a sweeping weeks-long lockdown to fight the novel coronavirus. ...

• India looks to ease lockdown even as coronavirus infections jump 11 May 2020 | Sanjeev Miglani and Alasdair Pal This post has one comment

  Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday the country would look to ease a nearly seven-week lockdown aimed at preventing the spread of the novel coronavirus, despite also reporting its biggest single-day jump in cases. ...

• COVID-19: Humiliation for USA/Japan/Europe — what next? 10 May 2020 | NS Venkataraman This post has no comments yet

  The world community believes that China did not inform the world about the seriousness of COVID-19 in Wuhan, and did not share information about the challenges it faced in dealing with it. China has let down the world community. ...

• China ‘shocked’ by US reversal on UN coronavirus action 9 May 2020 | Michelle Nichols This post has 2 comments

  China and the United States both supported a draft United Nations Security Council resolution confronting the coronavirus pandemic on Thursday and it was “shocking and regretful” that Washington changed its mind on Friday. ...

• US accuses China, Russia of coordinating on virus conspiracies 8 May 2020 | Francesco Fontemaggi This post has 6 comments

  The United States on Friday accused China and Russia of stepping up cooperation to spread false narratives over the coronavirus pandemic, saying Beijing was increasingly adopting techniques honed by Moscow. ...

• Grim economic data reveals virus devastation 7 May 2020 | David Harding, with AFP bureaus This post has no comments yet

  A new raft of bleak economic data laid bare the crippling worldwide impact of the coronavirus pandemic on Thursday, as hard-hit Europe moved to further ease lockdown measures in a bid to get people back to work. ...

• Pompeo has no evidence about virus lab leak: China 6 May 2020 This post has one comment

  China hit back Wednesday at US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo over his claims that the coronavirus originated in a laboratory in Wuhan, saying he "doesn't have any" evidence. ...

• Fauci dismisses US claim coronavirus was made in Wuhan lab 5 May 2020 | Rosie Perper This post has no comments yet

  Dr Anthony Fauci, the US's top infectious-disease expert and a front-facing member of the White House coronavirus task force, has said in a new interview that there is no evidence the new coronavirus was made in a Chinese lab. ...