JAKARTA: All 362 Indonesian citizens working aboard the MS Westerdam cruise liner currently docked in Cambodia are healthy, said Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi on Monday (Feb 17). This came after reports that an American tourist who entered Malaysia after disembarking from the vessel had tested ...
BEIJING: China will waive trade-war tariffs on imports of selected US medical equipment from Mar 2, the government said Tuesday (Feb 18), as the country battles to contain the new coronavirus epidemic. More than 72,000 people have been infected by the outbreak of the new COVID-19 strain in China ...
Japan plans to trial HIV medications to treat patients infected with coronavirus as the growing number of cases poses an increasing threat to the country's economy as well as public health.
TOKYO: All passengers and crew onboard a ship quarantined off Japan have now been tested for the new coronavirus, the government said Tuesday (Feb 18), as more countries moved to evacuate citizens from the boat. South Korea became the latest to announce it would remove its citizens from the ...
Three in four Australians -- almost 18 million people -- were affected by the country's deadly bushfire crisis, according to a survey released Tuesday that also pointed to plummeting support for the government and for coal projects.
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KUALA LUMPUR: Two Malaysians on quarantined cruise liner Diamond Princess have tested positive for COVID-19, said the Health Ministry on Tuesday (Feb 18). Posting on his Facebook page, Malaysian director-general of health Noor Hisham Abdullah noted that the cruise liner has the largest cluster of ...