カテゴリー: Coronavirus outbreak
Authorities recommend against shouting or screaming during thrill rides, as football fans are urged to avoid singingCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageVisitors to Japan’s amusement parks are being asked not to scream when ridin…
Move comes after two people absconded from quarantine, including a man later found to have Covid-19Police officers will patrol New Zealand’s quarantine hotels around-the-clock after a number of people – including a man who tested positive for coronavir…
Spanish region’s move comes amid new outbreak; two charged with murder over bus driver assault in France; WHO says coronavirus cases are increasing by 200,000 a dayCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSpain’s northern Catalonia r…
Next year visitors to Tatsuno ‘will once again see fireflies dance wonderfully’, says mayorCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAs the sun sets in the Japanese town of Tatsuno, thousands of fireflies begin glowing, producing a sp…
WHO bows to pressure from scientists about risk from aerosol transmission; Brazil’s Bolsonaro tests positive; Israel health chief resignsCoronavirus latest updatesUS still ‘knee-deep’ in pandemic says FauciBrazilian president Jair Bolsonaro tests posit…
Experts decry claim that necklace of eucalyptus can help prevent transmission of virusCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIndonesia’s agriculture minister has been condemned by health experts for claiming that a necklace made fr…
Hamish Walker says he sent list of cases to media to ‘expose government’s shortcomings’Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA New Zealand politician has confessed that he leaked the private details of all of the country’s active …
Infection risk means families are suffering trauma and guilt by not being able to carry out the Islamic funeral ritual of washing the bodyJusna Begum wakes up to her phone ringing at 1am. When she answers, it’s an inconsolable woman who has just lost h…
Controversial restrictions brought in to ease strain on quarantine system after rush of New Zealanders arriving at the borderCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealanders could be blocked at their own border after the gover…
Controversial restrictions brought in to ease strain on quarantine system after rush of New Zealanders arriving at the borderCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealanders could be blocked at their own border after the gover…
Country has third highest number of cases in world after 25,000 new infections recorded a dayCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIndia has overtaken Russia to claim the third highest number of coronavirus cases in the world afte…
Cases reach almost 700,000 to pass Russia in third place; Iran suffers record death toll; alarm in South Africa as cases jump amid easing of lockdownIndia has passed Russia as the country with the third-highest number of coronavirus cases in the world …
India has reported its largest one day increase in coronavirus cases, as the country continues to combat the Covid-19 pandemic. The health ministry reported 25,000 new cases and 613 deaths in 24 hours, weeks after the country when into a strict lockdow…
Part of Galicia under strict orders until Friday; Philippines reports its most daily cases yetCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSpain has ringfenced more than 70,000 people in Galicia in the second local lockdown ordered in as…
Covid-19 has exposed social and political fault lines from Brazil to Iceland to South Korea. Here, seven acclaimed writers share their lockdown experiencesTayari Jones is the author of five novels. Her fourth book, An American Marriage, won the 2019 Wo…