Day: May 9, 2020

China reports 15 new asymptomatic coronavirus cases

12:05 pm May 9, 2020

Beijing: China has reported 15 new asymptomatic coronavirus cases, taking their total to 836 while one new imported COVID-19 infection was confirmed, health officials said on Saturday. According to China’s National Health Commission (NHC), as for Friday 836 asymptomatic cases, including 63 from overseas, were still under medical observation. The NHC said one imported case […]

White House: US planning to ship 8,000 ventilators abroad

11:58 am May 9, 2020

Washington: President Donald Trump, who’s taken to calling the US the king of ventilators, is making plans to ship 8,000 of the breathing machines to foreign countries by the end of July to help in their fight against the coronavirus. That’s a long way from the early days of the virus when US medical workers […]

Stuck on cruise ships during pandemic, crews beg to go home

11:47 am May 9, 2020

Miami: Carolina Vasquez lost track of days and nights, unable to see the sunlight while stuck for two weeks in a windowless cruise ship cabin as a fever took hold of her body. On the worst night of her encounter with COVID-19, the Chilean woman, a line cook on the Greg Mortimer ship, summoned the […]

South Korea has 18 new virus cases fuelled by clubs

11:37 am May 9, 2020

Seoul: South Korea has reported 18 fresh cases of the new coronavirus in the past 24 hours, including 12 in the capital of Seoul, as health workers scramble to trace contacts after detecting a slew of transmissions linked to clubgoers. Figures released by South Korea’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Saturday brought national […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

NY State cites COVID-19 in presidential primary appeal

11:31 am May 9, 2020

New York: An appeals court should let a June 23 primary election in New York state proceed without voters and poll workers being forced to risk exposure to the coronavirus to vote for a Democratic candidate for president when the race is essentially over, lawyers for the state said Friday. The written arguments were filed […]