The Straits Times
Taxi driver Ho Eng Keey has cut his working hours by half, while artist Yeo Shih Yun has organised an online exhibition that holds up a mirror to these isolating times. . Read more at straitstimes.com.
Brendan Murphy says Australia is in a good place with its coronavirus situation, but warns against complacency as community transmission and returning travellers pose serious threats.
AP NEWS
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...
The Pope's address will be replaced by an online message as millions urged to stay at home globally.
About 19,700 people have now died with coronavirus in the US, while Italy's total is 19,468.
The Straits Times
LONDON (REUTERS) - Britain has not yet reached the Covid-19 peak which would allow for an easing of tight restrictions of movement, Health Minister Matt Hancock said on Saturday (April 11).. Read more at straitstimes.com.
"Coronavirus will not overcome us," she tells the UK in an Easter message.
AP NEWS
CHICAGO (AP) — The coronavirus pandemic that has crippled big-box retailers and mom and pop shops worldwide may be making a dent in illicit business, too. In Chicago, one of America’s most...
The package includes funding for new short courses for the unemployed, a guaranteed $18 billion for domestic students regardless of enrolment numbers and $100 million in regulatory relief for education providers.
The Straits Times
TAIPEI (REUTERS) - Tension flared again on Saturday (April 11) as Taiwan accused the World Health Organisation (WHO) of playing word games in a dispute over details it sought in an email querying if the new coronavirus could be transmitted between people.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Newsroom
Nearly 3000 passengers and crew of the MSC Magnifica haven’t been allowed off the big cruise liner for a month, since leaving Cook Islands and New Zealand. Their luxury world tour is turning into a voyage across the oceans in search of a port – any port – where they can disembark. Jonathan Milne reports.
Delhi's chief minister says Narendra Modi has agreed to extend the measure, due to end on Tuesday.
AP NEWS
State leaders are relying on a hodgepodge of statistical models with wide-ranging numbers to guide their paths through the deadly coronavirus emergency and make critical decisions, such as...
Almost 80,000 people have tested positive for COVID-19 in UK where 9,875 deaths have been reported.
interest.co.nz
American jobless claims surge again; US Fed adds US$2.3 tln of expanded help; Canada's jobless in huge spike; China's food prices up +13%; Aussies rush for cash; UST 10yr yield at 0.73%; oil lower and gold higher; NZ$1 = 60.8 USc; TWI-5 = 67
The Chinese city of Wuhan, once the epicentre of the outbreak, has eased restrictions this week.
Science
The rate of rise in new cases is slowing in Washington, but officials stress they’re not out of the woods yet and social distancing remains in place.
US cases surpass 500,000 pushing total worldwide to nearly 1.7 million one month since WHO declared pandemic.
Science News
African-Americans are more likely to die from COVID-19 than white Americans, data show. Experts blame long-standing health disparities.
President Trump pushes for re-opening the economy amid the coronavirus pandemic, saying it's the "biggest decision" he will have to make.
The pace at which Covid-19 spread around the globe left governments and international institutions paralyzed. But few experienced the scale of the whiplash currently being felt in Brussels.
www.nature.com
Doctors are reaching for drugs that dampen the immune response — but these also undermine the body’s own fight against the coronavirus. Uncertainty is hampering doctors’ ability to choose treatments.
the Guardian
Italy extends lockdown; death rate in Spain begins falling again; cases worldwide top 1.6m
AP NEWS
In Santa Barbara, forklifts chug through the warehouse of Direct Relief, hustling pallets of much-needed medical supplies into waiting FedEx trucks. Normally those gloves, masks and medicines...
World Health Organization
Disease Outbreak News 10 April 2020
