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EU presses China on market access, human rights

11:50 pm September 14, 2020

Brussels: The European Union on Monday urged China to further open its markets up to European companies and prove that it really does want to secure an investment agreement this year with the bloc, its largest trading partner. After a two-hour video conference, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, EU Council President Charles Michel and EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said they also pressed Chinese President Xi Jinping on human rights and […]

Global coronavirus cases top 25 million

2:04 pm August 30, 2020

Washington: The number of confirmed coronavirus cases globally has topped 25 million. That’s according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University. The US leads the count with 5.9 million cases, followed by Brazil with 3.8 million and India with 3.5 million. The real number of people infected by the virus around the world is believed to be much […]

Biden to meet Putin in Geneva on June 16: White House

Putin says Russia develops world’s first vaccine against coronavirus

7:06 pm August 11, 2020

Moscow: President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday announced that Russia has developed the world’s first vaccine against COVID-19 that works “quite effectively” and forms a “stable immunity” against the disease as he disclosed that one of his daughters has already been vaccinated. “A vaccine against coronavirus has been registered for the first time in the world this morning,” Putin said […]

Doja Cat says she had COVID-19

7:39 pm July 26, 2020

Los Angeles: Singer Doja Cat has revealed she contracted coronavirus months after she said that she wasn’t “scared” of the disease. The 24-year-old artiste, who has since recovered from COVID-19, said she still doesn’t know how she caught the virus. “I got COVID. Honestly, I don’t know how this happens but I guess I ordered something off […]

One new COVID-19 case in Mizoram, tally at 4,428

Study says physical distancing may help ease burden on hospitals, but only to a point

7:46 pm July 16, 2020

Washington: Scientists have found that longer periods of social distancing alone are not successful when it comes to slowing COVID-19 spread, an advance that may help make better decisions in countries where a second wave of the pandemic is expected. “Conventional wisdom was, the more intense and long-term the social distancing, the more you will […]