Tag Archives: Pandemic

• India extends lockdown in high-risk zones, to allow partial reopening elsewhere 30 May 2020 | Neha Arora This post has no comments yet

  India extended its coronavirus lockdown until 30 June in high-risk zones but permitted restaurants, malls and religious buildings to reopen elsewhere from June 8 despite a record high number of cases detected nationwide on Saturday. ...

• Coronavirus cases in India pass one lakh, over 3,000 dead 18 May 2020 | Tibet Sun Online News This post has no comments yet

  India coronavirus cases surpassed one lakh (100,000) on Monday, and over 3,000 people have died, despite the world's biggest lockdown for its 1.3 billion people imposed since 25 March by Prime Minister Modi. ...

• 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. ...

• Karmapa donates to help fight coronavirus pandemic in India 12 April 2020 | Tibet Sun Online News This post has 3 comments

  The 17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje is supporting the efforts of the Government of India in its fight against the Coronavirus epidemic by contributing 28 lakh rupees ($36,000 USD approx). ...

• Global coronavirus death toll hits 100,000, cases over 1.6 million 11 April 2020 | Cate Cadell This post has one comment

  The number of deaths linked to the novel coronavirus reached 100,000 on Friday, as the tally of cases passed 1.6 million, according to a Reuters tally. ...

• Coronavirus crisis could plunge half a billion people into poverty 9 April 2020 | Karin Strohecker This post has no comments yet

  The fallout from the coronavirus spread that has killed more than 83,000 people and wreaked havoc on economies around the world could push around half a billion people into poverty, Oxfam said on Thursday. ...

• Global coronavirus cases surpass one million with more than 50,000 deaths 2 April 2020 | Chris Lefkow with AFP bureaux This post has 2 comments

  Confirmed coronavirus cases around the world topped one million on Thursday and the number of deaths soared past 50,000 as Europe reeled from the pandemic and the United States reported record numbers of people out of work. ...

• COVID 19 – Has China failed the world? 1 April 2020 | NS Venkataraman This post has one comment

  US President Trump has been repeatedly accusing China of not informing the world adequately and in right time about the seriousness of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) issue in China. ...

• Global lockdown tightens as virus deaths mount 30 March 2020 | Mariette Le Roux with Peter Hutchison in New York This post has 3 comments

  Harsh lockdowns aimed at halting the march of the coronavirus pandemic extended worldwide Monday as the death toll soared past 37,600 amid new waves of US outbreaks. ...

• Coronavirus could take up to 200,000 US lives says health expert Fauci 29 March 2020 | Brian Knowlton This post has no comments yet

  Senior US scientist Dr Anthony Fauci issued a cautious prediction Sunday that the novel coronavirus could claim as many as 200,000 lives in the US, as officials described increasingly desperate shortages in hard-pressed hospitals. ...