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China state media reports 19 people killed in forest fire
Published On: March 31, 2020 11:15 AM NPT By: Associated Press
BEIJING, March 31: Nineteen people have died while fighting a raging forest fire in southwestern China and hundreds of reinforcements were sent to fight the blaze and evacuate nearby residents, officials and state media reported Tuesday.
Coronavirus epidemic 'far from over' in Asia - WHO official
Published On: March 31, 2020 10:43 AM NPT By: Reuters
BEIJING, March 31: The coronavirus epidemic is “far from over” in the Asia-Pacific region, and the current measures to curb the spread of the virus are merely buying time for countries to prepare for large-scale community transmissions, a WHO official said on Tuesday.
U.S. coronavirus death toll rises past 3,000 on the deadliest day
Published On: March 31, 2020 09:02 AM NPT By: Reuters
NEW YORK, March 31: The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus pandemic climbed past 3,000 on Monday, the deadliest day yet in the country’s mounting crisis, while New York cheered the arrival of a gleaming 1,000-bed U.S. Navy hospital ship as a sign of hope in the city’s desperate fight.
Developing nations need $2.5 trillion coronavirus package: U.N
Published On: March 30, 2020 09:30 PM NPT By: Reuters
GENEVA, March 30: Developing countries will need a $2.5 trillion support package this year to face the economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic, a U.N. report said on Monday.
Indian police fire tear gas on jobless workers defying coronavirus lockdown
Published On: March 30, 2020 07:30 PM NPT By: Reuters
NEW DELHI/AHMEDABAD, India, March 30: Police in western India fired tear gas to disperse a stone-pelting crowd of migrant workers defying a three-week lockdown against the coronavirus that has left hundreds of thousands of poor without jobs and hungry, authorities said on Monday.
Indian police fire tear gas on jobless workers defying coronavirus lockdown
Published On: March 30, 2020 05:25 PM NPT By: Reuters
NEW DELHI/AHMEDABAD, INDIA, March 30: Police in western India fired tear gas to disperse a stone-pelting crowd of migrant workers defying a three-week lockdown against the coronavirus that has left hundreds of thousands of poor without jobs and hungry, authorities said on Monday.
Spain passes China in infections; Trump extends US lockdown
Published On: March 30, 2020 05:10 PM NPT By: Associated Press
MADRID, March 30: In an abrupt turnaround, President Donald Trump extended lockdown measures across the United States as deaths in New York from the new coronavirus passed 1,000. Spain on Monday became the third country to surpass China in infections after the United States and Italy.
Nearly 12,300 Spanish health workers have coronavirus
Published On: March 30, 2020 04:47 PM NPT By: Reuters
MADRID, March 30: Some 12,298 health workers have tested positive for coronavirus in Spain, deputy health emergency chief Maria Jose Sierra said at a news conference on Monday.
India says no plan to extend coronavirus lockdown as poor struggle
Published On: March 30, 2020 01:10 PM NPT By: Reuters
NEW DELHI/BENGALURU, March 30: India has no plans to extend a 21-day lockdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus, the government said on Monday, as it struggled to keep essential supplies flowing and prevent tens of thousands of out-of-work people fleeing to the countryside.
North Korea says it conducted a successful test of multiple rocket launchers
Published On: March 30, 2020 12:30 PM NPT By: Reuters
SEOUL, March 30: North Korea’s latest test of super-large multiple rocket launchers a day earlier was a success, state media said on Monday.
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