BEIJING (AP) – Beijing has urged not to leave the city during the lunar New Year holiday in February, imposing new sanctions after some coronavirus infections last week. Two domestic cases were reported Friday, a convenience store worker and a Hewlett-Packard enterprise employee. Two other asymptomatic cases were found in …
Read More »The virus sits in a Belarusian prison full of presidential critics
KAVIV, Ukraine (AP) – A Kovid-19 wave has led to Belarusian prisons being filled with people in custody for protesting against the country’s dictatorial president, and some protesters who contracted the coronavirus while imprisoned officials were ignored or So encourage infection. Activists who spoke to the Associated Press after their …
Read More »After initial success, the S. Korea virus fell asleep in crisis
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – South Korea seemed to be winning the fight against the coronavirus: its initial testing, contact-detection and quarantine efforts paid off quickly when the lockout erupted without economic pain. But a fatal resurgence during Christmas week has reached new heights, exploring the soul of how the …
Read More »Detention of top aide of Russian opposition leader Navalny
MOSCOW (AP) – A top aide to Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was detained Friday after he allegedly opened the door to a security guard who inadvertently leaked details of Navalny’s alleged poisoning with a Soviet-era nerve agent. Lubov Sobol, a key figure in Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation, was detained for …
Read More »The British military helps clear a backlog of drivers trapped by the virus
LONDON (AP) – As France briefly closed its border with the UK, about 1,000 British troops were trying to clear a huge backlog of truck drivers stuck in southeastern England on Christmas Day, amid a new, apparently more dangerous, coronavirus test. Infectious, virus variant sought Although an estimated 1,000,000 or …
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