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Beijing city reports six new coronavirus cases
BEIJING: Beijing’s city government reported six new confirmed cases of the coronavirus involving individuals who came from Italy and the United States, Chinese state television said today. The report said five of the new coronavirus patients, whose infections were confirmed
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Alibaba’s Jack Ma unseats Indian tycoon Mukesh Ambani as Asia’s richest man
BEIJING: Indian energy tycoon Mukesh Ambani is no longer Asia’s richest man, relinquishing the title to Jack Ma after oil prices collapsed along with global stocks. The rout, exacerbated by mounting fears that the spread of the novel coronavirus will thrust
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COVID-19: Passengers from infected zones need to provide health certificates
BANGKOK: The Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand (CAAT) said, passengers from COVID-19 Disease Infected Zones comprising China, Hong Kong, Macau, South Korea, Iran and Italy, need to present health certificates to establish that they are free from the virus. In
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COVID-19: Shanghai Disneyland reopens but main theme park still closed
SHANGHAI: Walt Disney Co’s Shanghai Disneyland said, today it will resume a limited number of operations at its resort as part of the first step of a phased reopening, although the main theme park will remain shut amid worries about
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Ten die at collapsed China quarantine hotel; virus spread slows
SHANGHAI/BEIJING: Ten people have died and 23 remain trapped after the collapse of a hotel that was being used to quarantine people under observation for the coronavirus in the Chinese city of Quanzhou, authorities said yesterday. More than 70 people
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COVID-19: 12 new cases in S’pore, total 150; 90 discharged
SINGAPORE: Singapore’s Health Ministry (MOH) yesterday confirmed 12 more cases of COVID-19 infection in the republic with one imported case involving an Indonesian national. In a statement here, MOH said the 64 year-old male Indonesian arrived in Singapore on March
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China reports zero locally transmitted coronavirus cases outside Hubei
BEIJING: Mainland China outside Hubei reported no new locally transmitted cases of coronavirus yesterday for the second straight day, while 36 were reported in Wuhan, officials said today. China had 40 new confirmed cases of coronavirus infections yesterday, the National
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Taiwan: China forced M’sian state to ban Taiwanese entry on virus fears
TAIPEI: Taiwan’s foreign minister said today that China had forced the Malaysian state of Sarawak to reinstate a ban on travellers from the island as part of coronavirus control steps, saying Beijing was taking “joy” in the measures. Taiwan says
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Mainland China reports 139 new coronavirus cases
BEIJING: Mainland China had 139 new confirmed cases of coronavirus infections yesterday, the country’s National Health Commission said today, up from 119 cases a day earlier. That brings the total accumulated number of confirmed cases in mainland China so far
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Delhi’s displaced scrape a living after deadly riots
NEW DELHI: Mohammed Anees fled his home in northeastern New Delhi last week as Hindu-Muslim clashes erupted in his area, escaping with his family of four to a relative’s home. He had only a few hundred rupees in his wallet,
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