Author Archives: Syndicated Content
South Asia coronavirus cases top 37,000, headache for govts eyeing lockdown end
By Sanjeev Miglani and Asif Shahzad NEW DELHI (Reuters) - South Asia's coronavirus infections have crossed 37,000, with more than half in India, official data showed on Thursday, complicating the task...
Apr 23, 2020
Singapore confirms 1,037 new COVID-19 cases
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore's health ministry said it had preliminarily confirmed 1,037 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, taking the Southeast Asian city-state's total infections to 11,178. The h...
Apr 23, 2020
China, U.S. should strive to reduce uncertain factors in trade relations: commerce ministry
BEIJING (Reuters) - China and the United States should use the Phase 1 trade deal as an opportunity to strive to reduce uncertain factors in bilateral trade relations and avoid adopting new trade and ...
Apr 23, 2020
China to donate additional $30 million to WHO for COVID-19
BEIJING (Reuters) - China is to donate an additional $30 million to the World Health Organization (WHO) to support the global fight against COVID-19, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying ...
Apr 23, 2020
Record dive in German business activity shows ‘shocking’ coronavirus impact: PMI
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's private sector recession deepened in April as services and manufacturing suffered record falls in output due to the coronavirus outbreak and measures to contain it, a surv...
Apr 23, 2020
Tajik leader urges farmers to delay Ramadan fast
DUSHANBE (Reuters) - Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon urged local farmers on Thursday to delay fasting for Ramadan so they can stay healthy and productive during the coronavirus pandemic. Muslims aroun...
Apr 23, 2020
UK’s poor testing could slow emergence from lockdown, Deutsche Bank says
LONDON (Reuters) - The United Kingdom's poor novel coronavirus testing capacity means that it is likely be one of the world's laggards to exit the stringent lockdown that has so badly hammered its con...
Apr 23, 2020
Merkel says we are still at the start of the coronavirus pandemic
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany is still at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic and will have to live with it for a long time, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday. "We are not living in the fin...
Apr 23, 2020
UK’s Aston Martin plans to restart St Athan unit, cuts executives’ pay
(Reuters) - Aston Martin said on Thursday it plans to restart its St Athan factory in south Wales on May 5 and will also resume operations at Gaydon later, after the coronavirus-led shutdowns forced t...
Apr 23, 2020
‘Just another patient’: New Zealand nurse tells of treating British PM for virus
(Reuters) - A New Zealand nurse who treated British Prime Minister Boris Johnson while he was in hospital with the coronavirus said she saw the world leader as "just another patient" and that she thou...
Apr 23, 2020
