Latest Coronavirus global developments

Covid global

PARIS: Here are the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis: Death toll tops 800,000 The pandemic has killed at least 800,004 people worldwide since surfacing in China late last year, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP at around 1100 GMT Saturday. More than 23 million cases have been registered in 196 […]

‘Comply with SOPs’

PADAWAN: Padawan Municipal Council (MPP) and other government agencies will enforce all directives and regulations decided in a special meeting by the State Disaster Management Committee (SDMC). Batu Kitang assemblyman, Lo Khere Chiang told reporters this after the handing over of food aid donations at SJK (C) Chung Hua 10th Mile here on Sunday (July […]

S Korea struggles to flatten virus curve again

SEOUL: South Korea reported more than 50 new virus cases for the second consecutive day Friday, all in the Seoul metropolitan area due to logistics centre-tied cluster infections, threatening to derail health authorities’ virus fight amid lingering concerns about community spread, Yonhap news agency reported. The newly added 58 Covid-19 cases, including 55 local infections, […]

India records biggest single-day spike of Covid-19 cases, tally reaches 26,496

NEW DELHI: India’s federal health ministry said Sunday morning that 45 new deaths due to Covid-19 and an additional 1,554 positive cases were reported since Saturday evening across the country, taking the number of deaths to 824 and total cases to 26,496, reported Xinhua News Agency. In the last 24 hours the country recorded 1,990 […]

Super hot sales

Sales of undies skyrocket by 900% as locked-at-home women shop online to beat the MCO blues KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian women are fighting back the blues of being stuck indoors and perhaps boosting self-love by buying new undies, as a survey shows that its sales had spiked 900 per cent just a month into the movement […]

Malaysia under partial lockdown tomorrow

KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin has declared that Malaysia will be placed under nationwide movement restriction order from March 18 to March 31, 2020, due to the Covid-19 outbreak. The order, the first in the country’s history, was announced by the prime minister in a live broadcast over national television tonight. A total of 125 new positive […]