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Record 50.8 million internally displaced globally: Report


Geneva: A record 50.8 million people worldwide are internally displaced due to conflict or disaster, with the coronavirus pandemic posing a new threat, a report warned on Tuesday. In its annual report, the Geneva-based Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) said the ongoing global pandemic may add further risks to millions of already vulnerable people, the...

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India allows stranded migrant workers, students to move


New Delhi: The Indian government has allowed the movement of students, migrant workers, pilgrims, tourists and others stranded at various places due to the ongoing nationwide lockdown that is in place to fight the coronavirus pandemic. The Union Ministry of Home Affairs on Wednesday issued a circular to the states and the Union Territories allowing...

UK PM Boris Johnson urged people not to lose patience with the ongoing lockdown.

UK at moment of maximum risk from pandemic: Johnson


London: In his first briefing to the nation after recovering from the novel coronavirus, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that the country was at the moment of maximum risk in the pandemic, and urged people not to lose patience with the ongoing lockdown. Speaking outside No 10 after he returned to Downing Street, Johnson...

Italy entered into a national lockdown on March 10 to contain the pandemic.

Italy’s coronavirus cases top 200,000; death toll at 27,359


Rome: The coronavirus pandemic has claimed 27,359 lives in locked-down Italy, bringing the total number of infections, fatalities and recoveries to 201,505 as of April 28, according to the latest data released by the country's Civil Protection Department. The department reported 2,091 new infections and 2,317 more recoveries compared to April 27, bringing the nationwide totals...

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern

NZ claims no community COVID-19 cases as lockdown eases


Wellington: The New Zealand government announced that it has stopped the community transmission of the novel coronavirus, effectively eliminating the deadly disease. With new cases in single figures for several days, one on April 26, the BBC quoted Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern as saying that the virus was "currently" eliminated. "We are opening up the economy,...

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison.

Tensions flare up between Australia, China over COVID-19 probe


Sydney: The relationship between Australia and China is at a low point following Beijing's threat to boycott the Oceanian country's exports and tourism for having proposed an inquiry into the origin of COVID-19. Last week, the Liberal-National Coalition pushed for a transparent investigation into the origin of the novel coronavirus, which according to experts originated in...

Pakistan PM Imran Khan said the government was closely monitoring the COVID-19 situation.

COVID-19 intensity still low in Pakistan: Imran


Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has said the intensity of the coronavirus pandemic in the country was not as severe as it was in other parts of the world. He stated this while presiding over a meeting on impact of the pandemic on the country's social fabric and economy, reports Dawn news. According to an...

South Asia is home to some 4.5 million unimmunized or partially immunized children.

South Asia warned of child health crisis amid COVID-19


Kathmandu: South Asia could face another health emergency a children across the region were likely to miss out on life-saving vaccinations due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the Unicef warned. The region is home to some 4.5 million unimmunized or partially immunized children and most of them, or 97 per cent, live in India, Pakistan,...

An activist from an oceans conservation group holds up surgical masks that washed up on an island near Hong Kong.

Covid-19 plastic waste polluting the environment


Single-use masks, gloves and bottles of sanitizer shielding us from the spread of COVID-19 are ending up on the streets, in the seas and among wildlife. Over a month into the lockdown and the usually bustling streets of Kalamata, a Greek city southwest of Athens traditionally known for its olives, are largely empty. As in the...