SYDNEY: Two Australian apartment blocks have been placed under strict lockdown with residents barred from leaving on Tuesday, as authorities stepped up efforts to curb a fast-growing coronavirus outbreak. Police were posted outside an apartment block in Sydney’s Bondi neighbourhood, where nine people have tested positive for the virus, with […]
SYDNEY: Australia reported another spike in new coronavirus cases Monday, as a lockdown in the country’s largest city Sydney failed to halt a rapidly growing cluster of cases. Health authorities reported 112 cases in Sydney in the last 24 hours, a record for this wave of infections, despite a citywide […]
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka has reopened places of worship, restaurants, and cinemas with certain restrictions, after being closed for nearly two months. The health ministry says theaters, cinemas, and museums can operate at half capacity. Hotels and restaurants will also reopen subject to health guidelines. Conferences, seminars, and brand launches can […]
HANOI: Vietnam’s economic hub Ho Chi Minh City began a two-week lockdown on Friday in the hope to contain the country’s worst Covid-19 virus outbreak. The city of nine million had previously been subjected to travel restrictions for a month but infection rates were steadily rising with more than 9,400 […]
Le Premier ministre britannique Boris Johnson devrait donner son feu vert pour ce contact humain tant manqué lorsqu’il annonce le prochain cycle d’assouplissement du verrouillage plus tard lundi. Photo AP LONDRES: En Angleterre, il sera à nouveau temps de s’embrasser. Premier ministre britannique Boris Johnson devrait donner le feu vert […]
DUBLIN: Le verrouillage du virus en Irlande devrait être prolongé jusqu’en avril, a déclaré jeudi le Premier ministre Micheal Martin, alors que le pays se bat pour faire baisser les taux d’infection et les décès. « Nous envisageons certainement de maintenir des niveaux élevés de restrictions jusqu’à la période de Pâques », […]
LONDON: Police in London said on Friday that they have broken up a wedding attended by 400 people – despite a nationwide lockdown that bars households from mixing. The venue was a school whose principal died from the coronavirus last year. The Metropolitan Police force said officers found hundreds of […]
LONDON: It is too early to say when the national coronavirus lockdown in England will end, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday, as daily deaths from Covid-19 reach new highs and hospitals become increasingly stretched. Britain posted a fresh record in daily deaths on Wednesday for the second […]
BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday that she has agreed with state governors to extend the country’s current lockdown by three weeks until Jan. 31. Merkel said they also are tightening curbs on social contacts, in line with measures imposed at the beginning of the pandemic in March. And […]
LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday ordered England into a new national lockdown to try to slow a surge in Covid-19 cases that threatens to overwhelm parts of the health system before a vaccine programme reaches a critical mass. Johnson said a new, more contagious variant of the […]
