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Rideshare drivers in New York are trapped between their fear of contracting the coronavirus and need to earn a living. Most drivers have stopped working to avoid Covid-19 infection, but some cannot afford to lose the income.
South Korea reported no new locally transmitted coronavirus cases on April 30, 2020, for the first time since the nation’s coronavirus outbreak reached a peak on February 29. The Korea Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) said all four new Covid-19 infections reported on the day were imported. The lates…
A new drive-through Covid-19 testing site opened in a car park in the Philippine city of Taguig on April 29, 2020. The new facility near the capital Manila is part of a programme that aims to ensure tests are done for all those who need them. The partial lockdown has been extended to May 15, and Philippine President…
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro joked as he dismissed media questions about the country's rising coronavirus numbers. On April 28, 2020, Brazil’s death toll surpassed the figure reported in China.
Coronavirus victims in Brazil are being buried in mass graves at the Taruma cemetery in the northern city of Manaus as the Covid-19 pandemic worsens in the country. On April 28, 2020, Brazil’s death toll has surpassed the figure reported in China. As Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro downplayed the outbreak and cal…
A team of researchers from a Hong Kong university has developed an antiviral coating that may be able to help fight the spread of Covid-19. The scientists say the coating can provide up to 90 days of protection against bacteria and viruses including the novel coronavirus that causes the disease.
An Indonesian couple created see-through masks as lip-reading got harder for the deaf when people covered their face during the coronavirus pandemic.
China declared the central city of Wuhan, the initial centre of the Covid-19 pandemic, to be free of the disease on April 26, 2020, after the last patients being treated in hospital there were discharged. As the first country to battle the new coronavirus which causes Covid-19, China is hoping to take the lead role …
A doctor in China’s Sichuan province removed a 3mm spider from a woman’s ear. The arachnid had been in the ear for a week.
A Dutch flower farmer has bred a new variant of tulip to pay tribute to health care workers on the front lines of the Covid-19 pandemic. A field of 3 million tulips was also transformed into a work of art, depicting a “strong fist” and the hashtag message #staystrong.
Several high profile Asian actors are fighting back against racism towards the Asian community amidst the global coronavirus pandemic. They were blamed for spreading the coronavirus as the first cases were reported in China. A ‘Wash the hate’ campaign has been circulating on social media to raise awareness about rac…
Verónica Casado, Head of Castilla y León Health Department in Spain, was unable to hold back her tears during an address to lawmakers on April 27, 2020, as she read out the names of the latest health workers to die on the front lines of the nation’s fight against Covid-19.
The Singapore government has converted the Changi Exhibition Centre into a makeshift hospital to make room for Covid-19 patients. The first cases were mainly migrant workers from Bangladesh and India, who arrived at the centre on April 25, 2020. Foreign workers account for almost 88 per cent of Singapore’s Covid-19 …
Verónica Casado, Head of Castilla y León Health Department in Spain, was unable to hold back tears during an address to lawmakers on April 27, 2020 when she was reading out the names of the latest health workers who died from the coronavirus outbreak.
India’s main medical research organisation, the Indian Council of Medical Research has cancelled orders for Covid-19 antibody test kits made by two Chinese companies. The decision announced on April 27, 2020, comes after the research organisation said it found the rapid testing kits to be faulty and overpriced. As o…
The coronavirus pandemic has forced Hong Kong officials to postpone the city’s university entrance exams which were originally expected to start on March 27, 2020. When the Diploma of Secondary Education (DSE) exams finally got under way on April 24, candidates all needed to get temperature checks, wear face masks a…
An Indian man in Kolkata city dressed up as the Hindu god of death, Yama, to remind residents to stay home amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
Wang Quanzhang, a Chinese human rights lawyer who has just served four and a half years in prison for state subversion, finally reunited with his wife in Beijing on April 27, 2020, because of her ill health.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is “alive and well”, said a top South Korean security adviser in an interview with CNN on April 26, 2020. Moon Chung-in, special adviser on national security, spoke amid speculation about the supreme leader’s health after he missed celebrations for his grandfather’s birthday on April …
Wuhan, the central Chinese city that was the initial epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic, reportedly no longer has any Covid-19 patients in hospital. State media said that the final 12 cases were discharged from hospital on April 26, 2020, days after officials said Wuhan had no new cases and that there were no ser…
Normally bustling with activity and colour, Chinatowns in California have come to a standstill as a lockdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus pandemic forces most shops to close. Business has dropped up to 80 per cent, driven initially by racially charged fears about Covid-19, and later by a statewide shelter-i…
Mainland China may have had four times as many Covid-19 cases as the official total in mid-February, 2020, if a broader system for classifying confirmed patients had been used from the outset of the pandemic, a recently published study has found. The research by University of Hong Kong was published April 21 in The …
A one-month-old Thai coronavirus patient, the country’s youngest Covid-19 case, has reportedly been cured using a cocktail of antiviral drugs, according to the doctor who treated him.
Clinical trials on human subjects using an experimental new coronavirus vaccine got under way at Oxford University in the UK on April 23, 2020. Scientists in a lab at one of the world’s top universities have an ambitious goal of preparing a vaccine by autumn 2020 if all goes well. Around the world, more than 100 res…
The coronavirus pandemic has forced Hong Kong officials to postpone the city’s university entrance exams which were originally expected to start on March 27, 2020. When the Diploma of Secondary Education (DSE) exams finally got under way on April 24, candidates all needed to get temperature checks, wear face masks a…
India has been under a nationwide lockdown since March 25, 2020, to curb the spread of the coronavirus behind the Covid-19 pandemic. While the restrictions have caused a massive economic slowdown in the country, they have also given rise to improved air and water quality. As a result, tens of thousands of flamingos …
A heroic doctor came to the rescue when a security guard in China suddenly collapsed, and more trending videos from China this week.
To grasp the scale of Covid-19 infections in the country, Japan has set up more walk-through and drive-through facilities. Medical experts stressed the need to test more people for coronavirus after seeing a recent rise in the rate of people testing positive. As of April 24, 2020, there had been 11,950 coronavirus c…
As the Covid-19 death toll surpasses 46,640 in the United States, doctors across the country are reflecting on what they wish they had known before they were caught up in the battle against the deadly coronavirus that causes the disease.
Wuhan resident He Ximing was confirmed in late March that he had contracted Covid-19. However, it came after the 52-year-old trader tested negative three times for the deadly virus.
The global oil industry was already volatile before the coronavirus pandemic started, but now it faces its biggest challenge in recent memory. In late April 2020, oil prices plunged to the point where it now costs producers money to store a glut of the commodity in facilities that are running out of space. While inv…
In a desperate race to source critical medical supplies for the fight against Covid-19, some airlines around the world are converting passenger jets to serve as improvised freight flights. Japan's All Nippon Airways has started using passenger planes idled by the coronavirus pandemic, filling seats with medical supp…
New Zealand will move out of its most severe level of lockdown on April 28, 2020, as projections by a team of Chinese and US researchers found that the country is one of the best in the global crisis at balancing economics with disease controls. New Zealand had 1,451 infections and 14 deaths as of April 23, 2020, an…
Thai beaches are seeing more newborn leatherback sea turtles hatching than they have in 20 years as the coronavirus pandemic keeps tourists away. Tourism has dramatically fallen in the country amid travel restrictions, leaving beaches undisturbed and safer for sea turtles to lay their eggs and hatchlings to make the…
People in Bangkok are lining up for free food after losing their jobs during the Covid-19 pandemic. The Thai government introduced a cash handout scheme to mitigate the economic impact, but many in the country say they are left out of the measure.
Hong Kong and South Korea have managed to lead the way in the fight against Covid-19 despite neither place enforcing a lockdown to control the spread of the coronavirus that causes the disease. Health experts say it is no coincidence that their citizens took a proactive approach to defending themselves, rather than …
China’s economy shrank by 6.8 per cent in the first quarter of 2020, the first contraction in decades as the Covid-19 pandemic forced factories and businesses to close. Chinese farmers have also been hit hard by the pandemic, with the agriculture sector seeing a similar 6.8 per cent first quarter contraction. The So…
Earth Day celebrates its 50th anniversary on April 22, 2020. The annual international event celebrated around the world on April 22 was founded by late US Senator Gaylord Nelson. Since it was established in 1970, activists have gathered every year to raise awareness about global environmental issues. But fears about…
Dr Chan Tsz-tai works in the accident and emergency department at Hong Kong’s Queen Mary Hospital. He is among the frontline medical workers who regularly see patients that have suspected Covid-19 infections. Since a test for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 is the only way to know for sure who is infected, the …
A Myanmar government health worker was injured and his driver killed when their United Nations vehicle was ambushed as they were transporting Covid-19 test samples in Myanmar’s Rakhine state. The area has been in a civil war between the Myanmar military and insurgents for months.
Thousands of Israelis protested against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu while maintaining social distancing on April 19, 2020. Masked protesters kept two metres away from each other while voicing anger at their leader.
Iranian President Hassan Rowhani lifted a ban on intercity travel and allowed businesses to reopen on April 20, 2020, despite the country still battling one of the world’s worst outbreaks of Covid-19. The authorities have started to allow resumption of activities considered to only pose a "medium risk" of spreading …
While the global coronavirus infections neared 2.5 million and Covid-19 killed nearly 170,000 people, the Director General of the World Health Organisation warned on April 20, 2020 that “the worst is yet ahead of us”. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus renewed the agency’s warning about the continued severity of the Covid-1…
Singapore's health ministry confirmed 1,426 new cases of coronavirus infections on April 20, a record daily jump that took the city-state's tally to at least 8,014.
Nemophila, also known as baby blue eyes, have blanketed Japan’s Hitachi Seaside Park. However, the full bloom had no visitors this year as the Covid-19 pandemic shut the state-run facility in early April.
A designer in Vietnam has been decorating face masks with traditional embroidery to encourage people to wear the protective gear to slow the spread of the deadly coronavirus behind the Covid-19 pandemic.
A doctor was seen rushing to attend to a security guard who had suddenly collapsed in Beijing.
Dimo’s Pizza, a pizza restaurant in Chicago, Illinois is using its pizza oven to toss face shields for front-line medical workers who are fighting against Covid-19.
China’s economy shrank by 6.8 per cent in the first quarter of 2020, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on April 17, 2020. The contraction is the first in the world’s second-largest economy since the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976, as well as since official quarterly gross domest…
A wet market in the central Chinese city of Wuhan struggling to rebuild business despite the lifting of a months-long lockdown to fight the Covid-19 pandemic. But there are lingering fears about the deadly coronavirus that causes the disease. And amid reports that Covid-19 originated from one of Wuhan’s wet markets,…
