Srinagar: The Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) on Thursday installed and operationalised its first decontamination and sanitation tunnel at a hospital here in a bid to contain the spread of coronavirus pandemic, Mayor Junaid Azim Mattu said. The decontamination and sanitization tunnel, manufactured and commissioned by the SMC, was installed at the entry of the Chest […]
Read MoreWASHINGTON: President Donald Trump has held an unequivocal position about China and the coronavirus — several of them. Trump initially praised China, then excoriated Beijing after it made unsubstantiated claims that the virus originated in the United States. Now, Trump is back to offering niceties. The diverging messages have generated finger-pointing by both Beijing and […]
Read MoreWashington: The World Bank is estimating that the coronavirus outbreak will cause economic growth to slow significantly this year in China and other East Asian-Pacific countries, throwing millions into poverty. Under a worse-case scenario, the region could suffer its sharpest downturn since a devastating currency crisis more than two decades ago, the bank said in […]
Read MoreBeijing: China has reported one domestically transmitted coronavirus case after three days and 54 new imported infections on Thursday, prompting Beijing to temporarily cancel visas for foreigners and restrict flights to prevent a second wave of the deadly COVID-19 in the country, health officials said on Friday. The Chinese health authority said on Friday that […]
Read MoreNew Delhi: As the world continues to take steps to tackle COVID-19, Congress leader Manish Tewari recently tweeted that coronavirus is a bio-weapon created by the communist giant. At this critical moment, such irresponsible remarks to create gimmicks are really a despicable practice. People in all countries are victims of COVID-19, and it is still […]
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