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[ad_1] BANGKOK: Thailand is preparing to relax some of its COVID-19 control measures across the country starting May 3, including the reopening of restaurants, cafes and markets with guidelines to prevent a second wave of infections. Dr. Thaweesilp Wisanuyothin, spokesman for Thailand’s COVID-19 Situation Management Center (CCSA), said at a …

[ad_1] SHANGHAI: Life is never easy for China’s nearly 300 million migrant workers, but with the coronavirus destroying jobs at a historic moment, unemployed factory worker Wei Guikun is at its worst. Since March, Wei has wandered in search of work from his home in eastern Shandong province, where virus …

[ad_1] AGARTALA, India: A dropout from an Indian school has built a motorcycle with a one-meter gap between driver and passenger to take home the importance of social distancing in the COVID-19 pandemic. Partha Saha, 39, bought an old bicycle from a scrap metal dealer, removed the engine, and cut …

[ad_1] WASHINGTON: United States President Donald Trump said on Wednesday (April 29) that he believes China’s handling of COVID-19 is proof that Beijing “will do everything it can” to make it lose its candidacy to reelection in November. In an interview with Reuters in the Oval Office, Trump said he …

[ad_1] WASHINGTON: A guided missile destroyer of the US Navy. USA It sailed through the waters near the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea, challenging China’s claim to the area, the Navy said Wednesday (April 29). The USS Barry carried out the so-called “freedom of navigation operation” on Tuesday, …

[ad_1] HANOI: Businessman Phan Quoc Viet was doing his usual prayers at a pagoda in Tay Ninh, a province in southern Vietnam, when the call came from the government official. It was in late January, just after the Lunar New Year. Vietnam had detected its first two cases of the …

[ad_1] LONDON: The UK now has the second highest number of official deaths in Europe from the new coronavirus pandemic, according to new figures on Wednesday (April 29) that cover deaths in all settings, including nursing homes. Some 26,097 people died across the UK after testing positive for COVID-19 as …

[ad_1] BEIJING: A populated region in northern China that includes Beijing will ease the restrictions imposed to stop the spread of the new coronavirus, as the country gradually changes to a new normal state amid declining COVID-19 cases. The municipalities of Beijing and Tianjin, as well as neighboring Hebei province, …

[ad_1] REUTERS: Despite infecting more than three million people worldwide, there are still 34 countries and territories that have yet to report a single case of the new coronavirus. These include Comoros, Lesotho, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and small islands in the Pacific, such as Nauru, Kiribati, and the Solomon Islands. Ad …

[ad_1] MOSCOW: When Russian cardiologist Alexei Erlikh and several colleagues started a project to follow up on doctors who had died from the coronavirus, you never expected that there would be so many names. Launched last week, the database already lists more than 70 dead doctors, nurses and laboratory technicians, …