Tag: Pandemic
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Pandemic | Phishing ploy targets Covid-19 vaccine distribution effort
IBM security researchers say they have detected a cyberespionage effort using targeted phishing emails to try to collect vital information on the World Health Organization’s initiative ... -
China testing blunders stemmed from secret deals with firms
In the early days in Wuhan, the first city struck by the virus, getting a COVID test was so difficult that residents compared it to winning ... -
Covid-19 | UK authorizes Pfizer coronavirus vaccine for emergency use
Pfizer and BioNTech say they’ve won permission today (Wednesday) for emergency use of their COVID-19 vaccine in Britain, the world’s first coronavirus shot that’s backed by ... -
Asia Today: India’s virus cases jump on New Delhi resurgence
India’s coronavirus outbreak rose by more than 50,000 cases Thursday amid a resurgence of infections in the capital. The Health Ministry also reported another 704 fatalities ... -
New Russian infections soar; UK, Germany widen testing
Coronavirus cases hit new daily highs this week in Russia, and Germany and the U.K. announced plans Tuesday to expand virus testing as European countries battled ... -
China marks another step in virus rebound with Singapore opening Nov 6
Singapore will lift border restrictions on visitors from mainland China from Nov. 6, a further reminder that the nation where the coronavirus outbreak first began is ... -
Asia Today: S.Korea reports 110 cases, half in Busan hospital
South Korea has reported 110 new cases of the coronavirus, half of them linked to a hospital in Busan. The numbers released by the Korea Disease ... -
Trump, still infectious, back at White House — without mask
President Donald Trump staged a dramatic return to the White House Monday night (today, Macau time) after leaving the military hospital where he was receiving an ... -
Asia Today: Remote learning begins in virus-hit Philippines
Grade school and high school students in the Philippines began classes at home today (Monday) after the coronavirus pandemic forced remote-learning onto an educational system already ... -
Trump’s age, health woes raise his risk for Covid-19 illness
President Donald Trump has several strikes against him — age, obesity, elevated cholesterol and being male — that could put him at greater risk of becoming ... -
Asia Today: South Korea has virus jump before holiday period
South Korea has reported 113 new cases of COVID-19, its first daily increase over 100 in five days, as the country entered a holiday break that ... -
Asia Today: China to let in more foreigners as virus recedes
Foreigners holding certain types of visas and residence permits will be permitted to return to China starting next week as the threat of the coronavirus continues ... -
Asia Today: Vietnam to resume international flights
Vietnam will resume international commercial flights to several Asian destinations starting Friday, after a monthslong shutdown to curb the coronavirus outbreak. The flights, however, are reserved ... -
Thailand moves a step closer to welcoming back foreign tourists
Thailand will start issuing special visas to foreign tourists starting October, easing a more than five-month-old ban on visitors to revive the nation’s ailing tourism-reliant economy. ... -
Asia Today: India reports record 1,133 new virus deaths
India today (Tuesday) reported 1,133 deaths from the coronavirus in the last 24 hours, its highest single-day total. The Health Ministry also reported 75,809 new cases, ... -
When will tourists return to Africa? Continent must guess
Raino Bolz quickly diversified when his tourism business in South Africa’s winelands crashed to a halt in March because of the coronavirus pandemic. He sold a ... -
Asia Today: India adds another 83K, nears 2nd most in world
The number of people confirmed to be infected with the coronavirus in India rose by another 80,000 and is near Brazil’s total, the second-highest in the ... -
Asia Today: Beijing receiving first int’l flights since March
Beijing’s main international airport today (Thursday) began receiving international flights again from a limited number of countries considered at low risk of coronavirus infection. Passengers flying ... -
Asia Today: SKorea orders doctors to stop strike amid crisis
Health officials in South Korea ordered thousands of striking doctors to return to work as the country counted its 13th straight day of triple-digit jumps in ... -
Asia Today: South Korea closes many schools again amid surge
South Korea is closing schools and returning to remote learning in the capital region as the country counted its 12th straight day of triple-digit daily increases ... -
Asia Today: South Korea sees 11th day of 3-digit increases
South Korea counted its 11th straight day of triple-digit daily jumps in coronavirus cases Monday and health officials pleaded for people to follow guidelines or risk ... -
Asia Today: India has record high of 69,000 more infections
India counted another record high of new coronavirus infections today (Thursday) as it ramped up testing to more than 900,000 a day. The 69,652 new cases ... -
Asia Today: 623 virus cases linked to South Korea church
South Korean health workers have found more than 600 coronavirus infections linked to a Seoul church led by a vocal opponent of the country’s president as ... -
Asia Today: Philippine capital’s virus lockdown to be eased
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has decided to ease a mild coronavirus lockdown in the capital and four outlying provinces to further reopen the country’s battered economy ... -
Asia Today: Victoria adds 21 deaths, Singapore clears dorms
The Australian state of Victoria today (Wednesday) reported a record 21 virus deaths and 410 new cases from an outbreak in the city of Melbourne that ... -
Asia Today: New Zealand reports first local cases in 102 days
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Tuesday that authorities have found four cases of the coronavirus in one Auckland household from an unknown source, the ... -
Russia clears virus vaccine despite scientific skepticism
Russia today (Tuesday) became the first country to clear a coronavirus vaccine and declare it ready for use, despite international skepticism. President Vladimir Putin said that ... -
Azar visit to Taiwan is fresh thorn in prickly US-China ties
A visit by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar to Taiwan this week comes amid mounting tensions between Washington and Beijing, which claims Taiwan ... -
Asia Today: Central Japan region put under virus emergency
TOKYO — A governor in central Japan announced a state of emergency today (Thursday) because of rising virus cases and asked businesses and people to curb ... -
Asia Today: Australian state reports record virus increase
MELBOURNE — Australia’s hot spot State of Victoria announced a record 725 COVID-19 cases and 15 deaths today (Wednesday), while businesses in Melbourne city prepared to ... -
Asia Today: Manila back under lockdown as virus cases surge
MANILA — Commuter trains, buses and other public vehicles stayed off the main roads of the Philippine capital today (Tuesday) and police were again staffing checkpoints ... -
Asia Today: More restrictions in Australia’s State of Victoria
CANBERRA — The State of Victoria, Australia’s coronavirus hot spot, announced today (Monday) that businesses will be closed and scaled down in a bid to curb ... -
Asia Today: SKorea arrests leader of church with big cluster
SEOUL — South Korean prosecutors arrested the elderly leader of a secretive religious sect Saturday as part of an investigation into allegations that the church hampered ... -
Asia Today: India, Philippines ease rules; Bali reopens
NEW DELHI — India added another record surge in virus cases today (Friday) as the government decided to lift a nighttime curfew that was in force ... -
Asia Today: 723 cases in Australia, closures in Vietnam
MELBOURNE — Australia’s coronavirus hot spot Victoria will make masks compulsory statewide after reporting on Thursday a record 723 new cases. Masks have been mandatory in ...
