Articles by Shubhangi Shah

Taiwan is the latest country to report death due to Covid-19

A man in his 60s, who hadn't traveled abroad recently, died of the Covid-19 virus, Taiwanese Health Minister Chen Shih-chung said on Sunday

Feb 16, 2020

Coronavirus

What is Hadaka Matsuri? Inside Japan's annual 'Naked Festival'

The annual Hadaka Matsuri (Naked Festival) was celebrated on Saturday, February 15 at Japan's Honshu island

Feb 16, 2020

France confirms first Covid-19 death outside Asia as global toll reaches 1,669

The death of an 80-year old Chinese man in Paris is the first confirmed coronavirus fatality in Europe

Feb 16, 2020

Coronavirus

Russian pranksters claim they tricked Bernie Sanders into prank call with Greta Thunberg [VIDEO]

From 'candidacy endorsement' to 'rap music' to 'Bernie being a KGB's sleeper agent': Bernie Sanders' prank call with Greta impersonator

Feb 14, 2020

New Hampshire voter charged for slapping a 15-year-old Donald Trump supporter

The 34-year-old Patrick Bradley charged on the teen Trump supporter along with two others, after casting his vote for New Hampshire primary, on Tuesday

Feb 14, 2020

Ingrid Escamilla's murder sparks outrage in Mexico over 'Femicide'

Ingrid Escamilla was killed by partner, her body decapitated, pictures of which were leaked by forensic workers and featured on the front page of several newspapers

Feb 14, 2020

Singapore sends two Indonesian maids to prison for financially supporting ISIS-linked boyfriends

'Singapore cannot be seen as a springboard for assistance to terrorist groups,' the judge said while announcing his ruling

Feb 13, 2020

Tokyo Olympics' CEO quashes 'irresponsible rumours' over games being called off due to Coronavirus

Till Thursday, Japan has confirmed 247 coronavirus cases, with 219 infected on a cruise ship floating off the Japanese coast

Feb 13, 2020

Coronavirus

Hubei province reports 14,840 new Coronavirus cases, 242 fatalities in a day; what led to the surge?

Wednesday proved to be deadliest, with the number of coronavirus cases increasing ten-fold and fatalities surging twice

Feb 13, 2020

Coronavirus

Where is Chen Qiushi? Journalist who reported from Wuhan 'forcibly quarantined'

Chen Qiushi (34) went to Wuhan on January 24, was last heard on Thursday, it was later learnt that he was forced into quarantine

Feb 12, 2020

Coronavirus

#BloombergIsRacist trends as Michael Bloomberg's audio clip on crimes in New York goes viral

'We put all the cops in minority neighbourhoods,' Bloomberg stated while defending his 'stop-and-frisk' policy that chiefly targeted minorities as Trump responds to his audio clip

Feb 12, 2020

As Coronavirus death toll goes over 1,110; at least 500 medics get infected in Wuhan

Though the number of fatalities and cases declined on Tuesday, WHO held that 'Covid-19' spreads at a faster pace than SARS and Ebola

Feb 12, 2020

Coronavirus

Trump unknowingly tweets Larry David's clip in which the comic mocks him and his supporters

The 30-seconds clip is from 'Curb Your Enthusiasm', in which the American comic Larry David wears a MAGA hat, in order to repel people

Feb 11, 2020

Coronavirus: British man infects at least 11 in three countries without setting foot in China

The man from Britain caught the novel coronavirus in Singapore where he went for attending a conference

Feb 11, 2020

Coronavirus

Coronavirus Update: With 109 fatalities on Monday, death toll crosses 1,000 mark; 43,000 confirmed global cases

On Monday, 109 fatalities and 2,478 new confirmed cases were reported in mainland China

Feb 11, 2020

Coronavirus

This is the amount China has spent to fight coronavirus that has killed over 900 already

China allocated on Saturday an additional amount of 71.85 billion yuan ($10.26 billion) to fight the virus outbreak

Feb 10, 2020

Coronavirus

Hong Kong: Nine members of the same family get infected with coronavirus after sharing a meal

Nine out of the ten new confirmed cases of coronavirus in Hong Kong on Sunday were reported among family members who shared a hotpot and a barbecue meal

Feb 10, 2020

Coronavirus