India records nearly 67,000 new Covid-19 cases in its highest single-day spike
India recorded 66,999 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, the country’s health ministry announced Thursday — its highest confirmed number of daily infections yet. The country has reported 2,396,637 Covid-19 cases since the outbreak began, according to the ministry, the third highest in the world after the...
Hong Kong to launch voluntary universal coronavirus testing
Hong Kong will offer universal, voluntary coronavirus testing for all citizens, the city’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced Friday. Lam said she hoped the testing scheme would launch in two weeks time. “This is an entirely voluntary program to provide testing for those who want...
Japan has now identified more than 900 cases of Covid-19 for 10 days in a row
Japan’s Health Ministry recorded 1,490 Covid-19 infections on Thursday, the second-highest number of cases the country has identified in a single day during the pandemic and yet another worrying sign that its latest outbreak shows no signs of abating. Thursday marks the 10th straight day...
Coronavirus: Iran cover-up of deaths revealed by data leak
The number of deaths from coronavirus in Iran is nearly triple what Iran’s government claims, a BBC Persian service investigation has found. The government’s own records appear to show almost 42,000 people died with Covid-19 symptoms up to 20 July, versus 14,405 reported by its...
India reports highest 24-hour increase in coronavirus cases, with over 57,000 new infections
India reported 57,118 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, its highest daily increase to date, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. As of this morning, India had a total of 1,695,988 confirmed cases of Covid-19, of which more than 565,000...
India records more than 52,000 new Covid-19 cases
India recorded more than 52,000 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. As of Thursday, India has reported a total of 1.58 million cases, the third highest in the world after the United States and...
Iran reports 2,636 new cases of coronavirus in one day
Iran has recorded 2,636 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of cases in the country to 298,909. Health Ministry spokesman Sima Sadat Lari said Wednesday that among the cases,1,604 people have been hospitalized. Lari said there were 196 additional...
India’s coronavirus cases surpass 1.5 million
India’s total number of coronavirus cases surged past 1.5 million on Wednesday, according to the Indian Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. India hit a million cases of coronavirus on July 17, six months after its first infection was discovered on January 30. Since then,...
China reports more than 100 new coronavirus cases for first time since April
China recorded 101 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday, the highest single-day increase since early April, according to numbers released by the National Health Commission on Wednesday. Among the new cases, 98 were locally transmitted, including 89 in the far western region of Xinjiang where a...
Rafale: India gets new jets amid border tension with China
India’s air force has received five new Rafale fighter jets amid ongoing border tensions with China. The aircraft are part of India’s deal with France in 2016 to buy 36 warplanes. Delhi is hoping to modernise its dwindling Soviet-era air force fleet with the induction...
China reports highest number of local Covid-19 cases since early March for second day in a row
China reported 68 novel coronavirus cases on Monday, including 64 locally transmitted infections, the country’s National Health Commission said on Tuesday morning. This is the second consecutive day that China has reported the highest number of local cases since March 6. On Monday, the country reported 57 new...
Kylie Moore-Gilbert: Lecturer jailed in Iran ‘moved to remote prison’
A British-Australian woman serving a 10-year sentence in Iran for espionage has been transferred to a notorious prison in the desert, according to Iranian human rights activists. Kylie Moore-Gilbert, a lecturer at Melbourne University, has been in jail since September 2018. She strongly denies all...
China’s Tianwen-1 Mars rover rockets away from Earth
China has launched its first rover mission to Mars. The six-wheeled robot, encapsulated in a protective probe, was lifted off Earth by a Long March 5 rocket from the Wenchang spaceport on Hainan Island at 12:40 local time (04:40 GMT). It should arrive in orbit...
India records more than 40,000 new Covid-19 cases in largest 24-hour increase yet
India has recorded 40,425 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, the highest daily increase since the outbreak began, the country’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare announced today. The total number of confirmed coronavirus cases in India has now reached 1,118,043, the third-highest...
Japan records 510 new Covid-19 cases, including Osaka’s highest number since April 9
Osaka, the second largest prefecture in Japan, announced its highest daily total of new coronavirus cases yet, half of which it said were still untraceable. Japan recorded 510 coronavirus cases on Sunday, the Health Ministry said in a statement released today. Osaka confirmed 89 infections...
Japan reports highest daily jump in new cases since April
Japan reported 623 new cases in the past day, the health ministry announced on Friday — the highest daily jump in new coronavirus cases since April 10. The new cases include 286 from Tokyo, the highest daily jump in the capital so far. The prefectures...
Coronavirus: India’s Covid-19 cases cross one million
India added a record number of Covid-19 cases – nearly 35,000 – in the last 24 hours, breaching the one million mark. It has the world’s third-largest case load, after the US and Brazil – the only three countries so far to record more than...
India recorded 100,000 coronavirus cases in last four days
More than 100,000 people in India have tested positive in just the past four days, said the Indian Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Tuesday. The country recorded 28,498 new cases and 553 new deaths in the last 24 hours, said the ministry. That raises...
How coronavirus affects the entire body
(CNN)Coronavirus damages not only the lungs, but the kidneys, liver, heart, brain and nervous system, skin and gastrointestinal tract, doctors said Friday in a review of reports about Covid-19 patients. The team at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York City — one...
India continues to see record single-day jump in new coronavirus cases
India recorded 26,506 new coronavirus cases Thursday — its largest single-day total to date, its health ministry announced Friday. The total number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in India now stands at 793,802, with 21,604 deaths, according to the ministry. So far, a total of 495,512...
Japan sees 357 new coronavirus cases as Tokyo hits record daily high
Japan recorded 357 new coronavirus cases Thursday, its health ministry said Friday. This is the first time the country has recorded more than 300 daily new infections since April 25, when it was still under a state of emergency over the pandemic. The majority of...
FBI director: China is ‘greatest threat’ to US
The director of the FBI has said that acts of espionage and theft by China’s government pose the “greatest long-term threat” to the future of the US. Speaking to the Hudson Institute in Washington, Christopher Wray described a multi-pronged disruption campaign. He said China had...
India now has more than 700,000 coronavirus cases and 20,000 deaths
India recorded 22,252 new Covid-19 cases on Monday, raising the country’s total to 719,665 confirmed cases and 20,160 deaths, according to the health ministry. This is the fifth consecutive day that the daily new number of infections has increased by more than 20,000 in India....
Face masks are now mandatory in Iran, as coronavirus cases continue to rise
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has ordered the mandatory wearing of face masks in public after coronavirus cases continued to rise in recent weeks. Rouhani announced the new measure on Saturday, which came into effect on Sunday, according to the Iranian state news agency, IRNA. He...
Coronavirus in Australia: Melbourne returns to lockdown as cases surge
Five million residents of the Australian city of Melbourne have been told to stay at home for six weeks, amid a surge in coronavirus cases. Victoria State Premier Daniel Andrews announced the lockdown after the state saw 191 new infections, its highest daily number since...
India now has the third highest number of coronavirus cases in the world
On Monday, India’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare announced 24,248 new coronavirus cases recorded in the past 24 hours, raising the national total to 697,413 cases. With the new figures, India surged past Russia’s 680,000 total cases to become the third worst-hit nation globally....
Coronavirus: India overtakes Russia in Covid-19 cases
India has recorded more than 24,000 new cases of Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, taking its total above that of Russia. The country now has the third-largest number of confirmed cases in the world, 697,413. There have been 19,693 deaths. The latest surge in...
Pakistan’s foreign minister tests positive for Covid-19
Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi confirms he has tested positive for Covid-19 via his official Twitter account on Friday. According to the foreign minister, he felt a slight fever and immediately quarantined at home. He plans on carrying his duties from home. It’s not...
Kim Jong Un calls North Korea’s handling of the coronavirus “a shining success”
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called the country’s handling of the coronavirus “a shining success,” according to a report from the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). According to KCNA, Kim said the country had “thoroughly prevented the inroad of the malignant virus...
More locally transmitted coronavirus cases in Chinese capital
China reported five new coronavirus cases Thursday, according to the country’s National Health Commission (NHC). Three were imported from abroad, and two were locally transmitted in Beijing. There were no new related deaths on Thursday. The NHC also reported four new asymptomatic cases, which are...