Photo: CATHERINE LAI /AFP / TNS Government Technology Agency (GovTech) staff demonstrate Singapore’s new contact-tracing smartphone app called TraceTogether, as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus in Singapore on March 20. The mobile app using Bluetooth technology developed by … Read More
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday extended a nationwide state of emergency to May 31, saying the new coronavirus infection rate had yet to drop enough to justify ending measures aimed at slowing the outbreak. In … Read More
Greetings from Tyler, We were warned that hospitals would be overrun. They were sure to run out of ventilators, if not hospital beds. Car companies were recruited to manufacture ventilators instead of cars. Now nobody knows what to do with … Read More
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. President Trump said Thursday he has seen evidence suggesting that the coronavirus originated from a laboratory in China while continuing his criticism of the World Health Organization‘s … Read More
German special police gather near the Al-Irschad center in Berlin, Germany, April 30, 2020, after Germany banned Iran-backed Hezbollah on its soil and designated it a terrorist organization. (Reuters) Iran has slammed Germany’s ban on the activities of Lebanon’s Hezbollah … Read More
The coronavirus pandemic will hit Germany’s economy harder than any other calamity in decades, according to Economy Minister Peter Altmaier. An expert told DW that projections of recovery in 2021 were “wishful thinking.” With the coronavirus pandemic unleashing a wave … Read More
Back in charge: Johnson due to front No 10 briefing for the first time since his illness BORIS Johnson will signal this evening that Britain will have to endure the restraints of the coronavirus lockdown for months to come with only a … Read More