Asia Pacific

US pilot goes for shopping breaching stay-home order, sentenced to four weeks in Singapore

Immigration and Checkpoints Authority said, American pilot went to Chinatown Point shopping center while serving 14 days isolation

May 13, 2020

By Bharat Sharma

Singapore crime

Melinda Gates hopeful about breakthrough in Coronavirus vaccine by 2020 end, but Fauci differs

American physician and a Trump advisor on Coronavirus pandemic Dr Anthony Fauci's recent comments highlight the complexity in the path to find COVID-19 vaccine

May 13, 2020

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Coronavirus

South Korea sticks with virus lockdown rollback despite nightclub outbreak

Officials have linked at least 119 cases of COVID-19 to the night spots, which had just reopened as part of the South Korea's move to ease lockdown measures

May 13, 2020

By Reuters

Coronavirus

Social distancing done right? A woman walks with this unique headgear in Paris

Social distancing done right? Check whether THIS unique headgear really helps amid Coronavirus

The video of a woman wearing a meter-stick hat in Paris has started doing the rounds on social media.

May 13, 2020

By Anu James

Coronavirus

Xi Jinping with Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

CIA: China told WHO to downplay coronavirus outbreak so it could stock up on medical supplies

A new bombshell CIA report claims China told WHO to withhold information regarding the coronavirus outbreak from the rest of the world while it stocked up on medical supplies.

May 13, 2020

By Manthan C.

Coronavirus

Coronavirus: Wuhan embarks upon testing entire population of 11 million; Singapore, Denmark to follow

Singapore, China and Denmark have already decided to announce substantial expansions of their testing regimes

May 13, 2020

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Coronavirus

China's Jilin city imposes travel restrictions after new coronavirus cases

Officials said that five of the six new infections could be traced directly to one confirmed case in Shulan, where a cluster infection was previously identified

May 13, 2020

By Reuters

Coronavirus

Corpse waves from inside a coffin in Indonesia, video goes viral

The chilling video was captured during a Christian service in North Sulawesi, Indonesia

May 13, 2020

By Parwinder Sandhu

Coronavirus

Wuhan doctor who turned black after contracting coronavirus regains original skin colour

Yi Fan and his colleague Hu Weifeng contracted the virus four months ago while treating COVID-19 patients. During treatment, the skin tone of both the doctors turned black.

May 13, 2020

By Parwinder Sandhu

Coronavirus