BEIJING - Amid the further containment of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), China is powering ahead in returning to work and resuming business and production. The following are the latest facts and figures: - China is set to orderly open up public places and entertainment venues, according to a guideline issued by the State Council on May 8. Shopping malls, supermarkets, hotels, restaurants and...

China’s President Xi Jinping had called up World Health Organisation’s (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom in January to...

Israel stressed on Friday that it would discuss the reports about cutting the number of...

Nanjing University life science faculty's discovery of the anti-tumor mechanisms of high-salt diet was recently reported by Nature Communication and hailed by colleagues as a disruptive step of progress. Professors Zhang Junfeng and Dong Lei's team at the State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology of School of Life Sciences published in the online journal on April 7, 2020, the paper 'High-salt diet inhibits tumor growth in mice via regulating myeloid-derived suppressor cell differentiation' (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15524-1). The publication drew widespread interest from at home and abroad. The Nature Research Cancer...

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Download logo On 8 May 1980, the 33rd World Health Assembly officially declared: ‘The world and all its peoples have won freedom from smallpox.’ The declaration marked the end of a disease that had plagued humanity for at least 3 000 years, killing 300 million people in the 20th century alone. It was ended, thanks to a 10-year global effort, spearheaded by the World Health Organization, that involved thousands of health workers around the world to administer half a billion vaccinations to stamp out smallpox. The US$ 300m price-tag to eradicate smallpox saves the world well over US$ 1 billion every year since 1980. Speaking at a virtual event hosted at WHO-HQ, involving key...

Dubai: A 47-year-old pharmacist in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, died on Thursday after consuming a “new cure” he had made for COVID-19. Indian tweeps shared reports of how the man, K. Sivanesan, made and drank the chemical concoction along with the owner of a popular Chennai-based herbal pharmaceutical company where he worked. According to a report by Indian newspaper, The Indian Express, the owner of Sujatha Bio Tech, along with his employee, tried to create a coronavirus cure, but consumed a...

The Covid-19 crisis has many wealthy individuals thinking about estate planning opportunities. Personal finance expert Megan Gorman discusses the benefits of using GRATs during the current environment. ......

The Nintendo Switch is out of stock everywhere, but the Switch Lite is much easier to find availability. Should you get a Switch Lite if you can't find the main model? It depends. ......

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The novel coronavirus has destroyed lives and livelihoods in both the United States and China. But instead of bonding the two nations together to fight the pandemic, it has sent their already strained relations on a rapid downward spiral — and fanned the flames of a potentially dangerous strain of nationalism. China has been criticized at home and abroad over its handling of the virus, especially during the initial outbreak. Pushing back such criticism with increasingly fierce rhetoric, Beijing says it is merely “responding” to false accusations, particularly from the US. In March, as the pandemic raged across the globe, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian...

New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday dismissed rumours about his ill-health, saying that he is healthy and has been working as the country fights coronavirus crisis. "I am completely healthy and am not suffering from any disease," Shah tweeted in Hindi. In his post, the Home Minister said that...

New Delhi (Sputnik): As many as 12 people lost their lives and several others were hospitalised due to a hazardous styrene gas leak at a South Korean factory in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh on Thursday. ......

In late February, China expelled three Wall Street Journal correspondents after the newspaper’s publication of an opinion column that Beijing condemned as racist. ......

On 9th May the European Union and its member states mark Europe Day, which commemorates the historic 1950 Schuman declaration. This speech, made in the ruins of World War II, laid out a vision of cooperation between European nations that would lead to the European Union as we know it. Today, with 27 Member States and almost 446 million people, the EU marks the 70th anniversary of this declaration. The theme of 2020 Europe Day is Stronger Together, highlighting the need for solidarity particularly in the face of the Covid-19 crisis. To mark 9 May, Europe Day EU Ambassador to Georgia Carl Hartzell has issued a statement: 'Today, exactly 70 year ago a new vision for Europe was presented, that...

PARIS (AP) " French Resistance member Cecile Rol-Tanguy, who risked her...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) " Frustrated by scarce supplies and a chaotic...

More than 2,100 nightclubs, hostess bars and discos in South Korea's capital have been shut after 18 new coronavirus cases - with all but one linked to a 29-year-old man. ......

If Belarus was already in the grip of a public health crisis, its president looks hell-bent on turning COVID-19 into a catastrophe for the country. ......

MOSCOW (AP) " Russian President Vladimir Putin marked Victory Day, the...

NEW YORK (AP) " Love in the age of coronavirus sometimes requires a...

LONDON (AP) — From resounding applause to ostracization and isolation. That's essentially the journey Lt. Cmdr. Robert Embleton, who served 34 years in Britain's Royal Navy, took by ambulance when discharged from Derriford Hospital in Plymouth, southwestern England, on April 8 following his near-month sickness with COVID-19. Arriving at his retirement home, he immediately went into self-isolation with his wife of 55 years, Jean, who has shown no symptoms of the virus. Soon after, Embleton realized he was carrying some new baggage — the stigma of the virus. He even considered buying a bell to warn of his presence. “I was regarded as a sort of leper, a plague carrier. Some people when they...

Chance rules. Leaders lie. Deaths become statistics. The parallels between the disease and the war are everywhere. ......

The Mideast’s wealthiest countries depend on foreigners to do jobs their citizens won’t. But the virus has hobbled the arrangement and drawn attention to its inequities. ......

His New York City hospital has been all pandemic, all the time. ......

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ATLANTA (AP) — Ricardo Allen didn't budge when Georgia was one of the first states to open businesses during the coronavirus pandemic. The Atlanta Falcons safety...

ROME (AP) — South Korea's capital closed down more than 2,100 bars and other...

PICURIS PUEBLO, N.M. (AP) — On a dusty plaza in a Native American village that dates back nearly a millennium, a steady trickle of vehicles inched through a pop-up coronavirus testing site. From the bed of a pickup truck...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Two men were arrested for the strangling deaths of three sisters who...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Little Richard, the self-proclaimed “architect of rock ‘n’ roll” whose piercing wail, pounding piano and towering pompadour irrevocably altered popular music while introducing black R&B to white America, has died Saturday. He was 87....

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Hundreds of paramilitaries kept people off the streets and virtually all stores have been closed for at least a week. On Friday night, security forces fired tear gas at stone-throwing residents who ventured...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) " Republican-controlled legislatures are increasingly...

The Latest on the coronavirus pandemic. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. ......

WASHINGTON: Three aides working for US President , vice-president , and first daughter have tested positive for the novel this week. This has brought the pandemic to within a degree of the center of power in the US and made the White House an unexpected emerging hotspot even as large parts of America is now re-opening for business to very light footfall. All three principals and their spouses are reported to have tested negative for the virus. The White House has now updated its protocol to include daily tests for everyone entering the complex, though Trump himself is skeptical of the process and has disdained masking and social distancing guidelines outlined by his own administration. The...

(MENAFN)Health authorities in Yemen said on Friday that 9 more patients have been diagnosed with coronavirus, which has increased the tota... ......

(MENAFN - Khaleej Times) The civic body in Dibba Al Fujairah has ordered the closure of three pharmacies for unreasonably increasing the price of h... ......

(MENAFN - Costa Rica News) Citizens closed ranks with democracy to battle the Coronavirus pandemic; the image of public institutions also improved i... ......

(MENAFN - IANS) Sydney, May 9 (IANS) The lockdown due to the coronavirus outbreak has seen sportspersons locked inside their houses in the last co... ......

(MENAFN - Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 9 By Elnur Baghishov - Trend: As many as 1,529 people have been infected with the coronavirus (COVI... ......

(MENAFN)Health authorities in Brunei said that there have been no new coronavirus cases reported in the country on Saturday, as the total number of co... ......

(MENAFN) The overall record of patients who have tested positive for the novel coronavirus in South Korea has jumped to 10,840, after 18 more cases we... ......

(MENAFN - IANS) Chennai, May 9 (IANS) A Sharmik special train left for Akbarpur in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday evening from the Coimbatore railway s... ......

(MENAFN - IANS) New Delhi, May 9 (IANS) Indian industry has come forward to support the government in expanding the network of isolation facilities i... ......

(MENAFN - Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 9 Trend: The May edition of the influential Russian magazine "Natsionalnaya Oborona" (National Defe... ......

(MENAFN) On Friday, Lebanese authorities affirmed the existence of 12 new coronavirus cases, increasing the overall number of people tested positive f... ......

(MENAFN) Kuwaiti Ministry of Health announced on Saturday that the overall record of patients who have so far tested positive for the novel coronaviru... ......

(MENAFN)An official with the health ministry in Morocco said on Friday that three more coronavirus patients have died due to coronavirus i... ......