ROME (AP): ITALY HAS recorded a smaller day-to-day increase in new coronavirus cases for the second straight day, officials said, while cautioning it was too soon to know if the worst is behind the country with the world’s second-biggest caseload....
JOHANNESBURG (AP): SOUTH AFRICA, Africa’s most industrialised economy and a nation of 57 million people, will go into a nationwide lockdown for 21 days from Thursday to fight the spread of the new coronavirus. South African President Cyril...
TORONTO (AP): Canada’s most populous province said on Monday that non-essential businesses must close for at least 14 days, starting at 11:59 p.m. Tuesday, in efforts to stem the new coronavirus pandemic. Ontario Premier Doug Ford said he will...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa, Africa’s most industrialised economy and a nation of 57 million people, will to go into a nationwide lockdown for 21 days starting Thursday to try to contain the spread of the new coronavirus, the...
TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s most populous province said Monday that non-essential businesses must close for at least 14 days starting at 11:59 p.m. Tuesday in efforts to stem the new coronavirus pandemic. Ontario Premier Doug Ford said he...
BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesman said Monday that the German leader has tested negative for the new coronavirus. Spokesman Steffen Seibert told news agency dpa “the result of today's test is negative”...
PARIS (AP) — The hunt for masks, ventilators and other medical supplies consumed the United States and Europe, as more than 1.5 billion people — one-fifth of the world’s population — were asked or ordered to stay home on...
LONDON (AP) — Sunday was Mother’s Day in Britain and the government had a stark message for millions of citizens: Visiting your mom could kill her. In a message to the nation, Prime Minister Boris Johnson implored Britons to forego the...
NEW YORK (CMC): New York Attorney General Letitia James has called on United States Attorney General William Barr, as well as members of New York’s immigration courts, to stop the spread of COVID-19 by immediately halting in-person immigration...
ADDIS ABABA, (AP) : With the coronavirus increasing its spread across Africa, the continent received a much-needed care package from Chinese billionaire Jack Ma. A cargo flight containing more than six million medical items arrived Sunday in...
BRIDGETOWN, CMC: The Barbados government has announced a BDS$20 million (One Barbados dollar=US$0.50 cents) “survival” stimulus package even as it braces for significant loss in revenue and increased expenditure as a result of the coronavirus (...
ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC: A 50-year-old female who arrived here from the United Kingdom is Grenada’s first confirmed COVID-19 case. “She arrived in Grenada from the United Kingdom on Monday, March 16. She became symptomatic on Tuesday, March 17,...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (CMC): The President of Haiti, Jovenel Moise, on Thursday, declared a state of health emergency, following the confirmation of two cases of COVID-19 in the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member state. Speaking during...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP): Iran’s leaders vowed to overcome the coronavirus outbreak in upbeat messages marking the Persian new year on Friday, even as the Health Ministry announced 149 more fatalities, bringing the country’s death toll to 1,433. Iran is...
New York state joined California, on Friday, in ordering nearly all residents to stay home, as governors watched with growing alarm as southern Europe buckled under the strain of the coronavirus outbreak. “We’re going to close the valve, because...
NEW YORK (AP) — In a world suffering a pandemic, cash is no longer king. A growing number of businesses and individuals worldwide have stopped using banknotes in fear that physical currency, handled by tens of thousands of people over their...
SACRAMENTO, California (AP) — California’s 40 million residents should stay home indefinitely and venture outside only for essential jobs, errands and some exercise, Governor Gavin Newsom said Thursday, warning that the coronavirus...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Anxiety rose in Africa’s richest nation Friday as South Africa said coronavirus cases jumped to 202, the most in the sub-Saharan region, while the continent’s busiest airport said foreigners cannot disembark....
GEORGETOWN (CMC): The Commonwealth Observer Group, which monitored the March 2 regional and general elections here, said it is the clear that the tabulation processes conducted by the returning officer for Region 4 were not credible, transparent...
PORT-OF-SPAIN (CMC): Trinidad and Tobago on Wednesday announced a series of measures it hopes will help reduce the anticipated economic impact of the coronavirus on the oil-rich twin-island republic. Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley told a news...
ROME (AP): The death toll in Italy from the coronavirus overtook China’s on Thursday, and infections in the United States climbed past 10,000, in a stark illustration of how the crisis has pivoted towards the West. Italy, with a population of 60...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has upgraded its already dire warning to Americans against all international travel as the coronavirus outbreak spreads. The State Department on Thursday issued a new alert urging Americans not to...
One store advertised hand sanitiser at $60 a bottle. Another was accused of hawking it at $1 a squirt. Chain stores were accused of selling $26 thermometers and face masks at the “everyday low price” of $39.95 a pair, while a...
LONDON (AP) — An independent report sharply criticised Britain’s Conservative government on Thursday for the way it treated long-term United Kingdom residents who were wrongly caught up in a government drive to reduce illegal...
ROME (AP) — The Chinese city where the coronavirus first took hold reported no new home grown cases Thursday, while the death toll in Italy was poised to overtake that of China in a dramatic illustration of how the outbreak has pivoted toward...
