Day: April 9, 2020

Costa Rica seeks unity for COVID fight as WHO assembly looms

WHO urges virus unity after Trump attack

2:23 am April 9, 2020

Geneva: World Health Organisation chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Wednesday urged leaders to stop politicising the coronavirus pandemic following stinging criticism of the WHO from US President Donald Trump. The WHO director-general urged the US and China to join forces in fighting the disease rather than indulging in a blame game. Tedros hit back after […]

UK driver pleads guilty to manslaughter of 39 found dead in truck

2:12 am April 9, 2020

London: A British lorry driver on Wednesday pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of 39 people found dead in a refrigerated truck in southeast England. Northern Ireland man Maurice Robinson, 25, was arrested shortly after the bodies of 31 men and eight women from Vietnam were discovered in the truck in an industrial zone in Grays, […]

Police up virus controls as Italians lower their guard

2:08 am April 9, 2020

Rome : Police in Italy tightened lockdown controls Wednesday as cabin fever and a slowing in the coronavirus death toll and infection rate tempted Italians out in increasing numbers. Italy’s “Phase 2” plans for easing the lockdown have gripped the nation but also divided it. There are those who insist the economically crippling measures must […]

Navi Mumbai trader tests coronavirus positive

1:38 am April 9, 2020

Mumbai: A trader, who runs a shop at the masala market in the Agriculture Produce Market Committee (APMC) in neighbouring Navi Mumbai, has tested positive for coronavirus, an official said on Wednesday. The trader, a resident of Sion in central Mumbai, had got himself tested at a private lab, the official said. “His test reports […]

Woman dies of COVID-19 in Jammu; fourth death in JK

1:31 am April 9, 2020

Jammu: A 61-year-old woman from Udhampur district succumbed to coronavirus at the Government Medical College hospital here on Wednesday, taking the death toll due to the infection to four in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. This is the first death in the Jammu region of the union territory as all previous three deaths took place […]