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Doctors make their own face masks due to mask shortage
RENTON: Doctors in Seattle have been reduced to making their own face masks out of sheets of plastic, after a global shortage of medical protective gear has hit Washington state, an epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic in US. Ahead of
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‘White House told federal health agency to classify coronavirus deliberations’
WASHINGTON: The White House has ordered federal health officials to treat top-level coronavirus meetings as classified, an unusual step that has restricted information and hampered the US government’s response to the contagion, according to four Trump administration officials. The officials
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Coronavirus infects over 100k worldwide, 21 cases found San Francisco ship
LONDON/LOS ANGELES: Twenty-one people aboard a cruise ship that was barred from docking in San Francisco have tested positive for coronavirus, US officials said yesterday, adding to the more than 100,000 cases of the fast-spreading illness across the world. US
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Coronavirus cases surge in US, helicopter flies test kits to cruise ship
LOS ANGELES: The coronavirus outbreak spread further across the US yesterday, cropping up in at least four new states and San Francisco as Congress quickly approved more than US$8 billion to fight the outbreak and Americans faced increasing disruptions to
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Coronavirus deaths rise to six in Seattle area as US pushes for more testing
KIRKLAND, Wash: Six people in the Seattle area have died of illness caused by the new coronavirus, health officials said yesterday, as authorities across the US scrambled to prepare for more infections with an emphasis on increasing testing capacity. Dr.
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Coronavirus spreading fast outside China, airports to increase screenings
GENEVA/BEIJING: The new coronavirus appears to now be spreading much more rapidly outside China than within, and airports in hard-hit countries were ramping up screening of travellers. World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said almost eight times as
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Defiant Erdogan plans to expand presence across northeast Syria
ISTANBUL: Turkey will set up a dozen observation posts across northeast Syria, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday, insisting that a planned “safe zone” will extend much farther than US officials said was covered under a fragile ceasefire deal. Less
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Turkey agrees to halt Syrian offensive…for five days
ANKARA: Turkey agreed yesterday to pause its offensive in Syria for five days to let Kurdish forces withdraw from a “safe zone” Ankara had sought to capture, in a deal hailed by the Trump administration and cast by Turkey as
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Pence, Giuliani will not cooperate in impeachment inquiry
WASHINGTON: US Vice President Mike Pence and President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani said yesterday that they will not cooperate with a US House of Representatives impeachment inquiry, prompting a leading Democrat to say that would strengthen the case
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