MIDDLE EAST

Flydubai temporarily suspends services to India

3:49 pm March 17, 2020

Mumbai: Gulf airline flydubai has temporarily suspended its services to India for a month due to travel and visa restrictions in the wake of coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak. The pandemic is adversely impacting the airline industry world over with carriers cancelling or cutting down services across their international network. The low-cost airline, in a notifications, said […]

COVID surge, vaccine shortages spread beyond India’s borders

Poland bans domestic flights, warns of virus spread

10:40 pm March 16, 2020

Warsaw: Poland on Monday suspended all domestic flights as part of sweeping measures to try and halt the spread of the new coronavirus. The measure comes after the EU country banned entry for foreigners and suspended international flights from Saturday. Poland has so far registered 150 confirmed cases of the new coronavirus, including three deaths. […]

US to hit all of Iran's financial sector with sanctions

Virus toll in Iran climbs as lockdowns deepen across Mideast

10:35 pm March 16, 2020

Tehran: Iran reported another 129 fatalities from the new coronavirus on Monday, the largest one-day rise in deaths since it began battling the Middle East’s worst outbreak, which has claimed more than 850 lives and infected a number of senior officials in the country. Businesses in Iran’s capital remained open, however, even as other countries […]

Iran urges people to stay home as virus claims 113 lives

9:54 pm March 15, 2020

Tehran: Iran on Sunday urged its citizens to stick to guidelines and stay at home to stop the new coronavirus spreading, as it announced another 113 deaths from the outbreak. The latest death toll announced by the health ministry took to 724 the official number of people to have been killed by the disease since […]

Iran reports 113 new virus deaths, raising total to 724

5:12 pm March 15, 2020

Tehran: Iran announced on Sunday that the new coronavirus has killed 113 more people, the highest single-day death toll yet in one of the world’s worst-affected countries. People “should cancel all travel and stay at home so that we may see the situation improving in the coming days,” health ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said in […]