MELBOURNE (Reuters) – New Zealand Prime Minsiter Jacinda Ardern on Sunday announced a three-day lockdown in the country’s biggest city Auckland, after three new local COVID-19 cases were reported. Ardern said the level 3 restrictions, which require everyone to stay home except for essential shopping and essential work, repeating the super cautious approach the country
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Australia’s second most populous state Victoria entered a five-day lockdown on Saturday as authorities raced to prevent a third wave of COVID-19 cases sparked by the highly infections UK variant. One new locally acquired case was confirmed in the past 24 hours, Victoria health authorities said on Saturday, taking the number of
KUALA LUMPUR: Total economic shutdown in a bid to stop the spread of Covid-19 infections should be avoided, but employers must play their part, says Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye (pic). The Alliance for Safety Community chairman said safety at the workplace is paramount, thus employers should fully comply with safety procedures introduced by the
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Capitol complex is on lockdown, with no entry or exit allowed due to an external security threat and people inside being forced to shelter in place, according to a Reuters witness. The lockdown comes just days ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration and follows the Jan. 6 attack on the
TOKYO (Reuters) – For Yuuki Hamazono, it was a relief to find bars and restaurants in Tokyo flouting the Japanese government’s request to close by 8 p.m. The 30-year-old financial trader was one of many people out in the Shimbashi nightlife district during the first weekend of an expanded state of emergency, with the government
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The number of coronavirus infections in the Netherlands jumped by more than 11,000 in 24 hours, hitting a new record, data released by the National Institute for Public Health (RIVM) on Wednesday showed. The steep increase came just a day after a tough, 5-week lockdown was imposed in the Netherlands, where more
ATHENS (Reuters) – Greek authorities announced on Saturday the closure of nurseries and primary schools until the end of November, tightening a nationwide lockdown after a spike in COVID-19 cases. Greece has fared better than many other European countries in tackling the coronavirus, mainly due to an early nationwide lockdown imposed weeks after the pandemic
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – An Australian court on Monday dismissed a challenge to a curfew that was imposed on the city of Melbourne to help curb the spread of COVID-19, ruling it was neither illegal nor irrational and did not violate the state’s human rights charter. The nightly curfew was initially imposed on Aug 5, running
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Melbourne’s shops, restaurants and hotels opened for business on Wednesday after a four month coronavirus lockdown, with happy customers enjoying alfresco eating in the spring sunshine and shopkeepers hoping for big sales to make up for lost revenue. The state of Victoria and its capital Melbourne, Australia’s second most populous city, has
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, to contain the spread of COVID-19 in what was once the U.S. epicenter of the pandemic, said on Sunday he is moving to shut non-essential businesses as well as schools in nine neighborhoods identified as coronavirus clusters, starting on Wednesday. Seeking state approval for
HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba said on Wednesday it will begin easing a pandemic lockdown on Havana on Friday, while most of the rest of the country will move to phase two of a three-phase process towards normalization. The capital’s 2.2 million residents will once more be able to move around on public and private transport,
MANILA: Airlines operating in the Philippines called for swifter and more aggressive government support as a stilted restart to flights this month has done little to bring in much-needed revenue. Philippine Airlines Inc, Cebu Air Inc. and the local unit of AirAsia Group Bhd have only been able to fly about 10% to 15% of
LONDON (Reuters) – British breeders of puppies have seen a huge surge in demand for dogs during the lockdown and now fear that many families will give them up once they realise the scale of the responsibility ahead. A pet groomer tends to a dog at The Groom Room in Milton Keynes, following the outbreak
FILE PHOTOT – General view of a empty kids playground, following the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Doha, Qatar March 17, 2020. REUTERS/Stringer CAIRO (Reuters) – Qatar will start lifting coronavirus restrictions in its cities under a four-phase plan starting on June 15, when some mosques will be allowed to reopen, government spokeswoman Lulwa
FILE PHOTO: A “Yes We Are Open” sign is seen outside a Crepeaffaire restaurant in St Albans, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), St Albans, Britain, June 3, 2020. REUTERS/Paul Childs LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is planning to relax rules on outdoor dining and weddings, as well as speeding
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – The sparkle has returned to the Yamuna river flowing through India’s capital of New Delhi, residents say, after decades of filthy and stinking waters, matted with garbage and polluted with toxic effluent from industry. In a feat that eluded years of government cleanliness efforts, a nationwide lockdown against the coronavirus has
FILE PHOTO: A woman wearing a protective face mask walks past Puente de la Mujer during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Buenos Aires, Argentina May 18, 2020. REUTERS/Agustin Marcarian BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina extended on Thursday a mandatory lockdown in Buenos Aires, the capital, and some other parts of the country until June
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday cited economic losses to justify his government’s decision to lift a coronavirus lockdown despite rising infections and deaths, urging people to “live with the virus.” Pakistan has rolled back almost all shutdown measures, primarily to avert an economic meltdown. The country would open to tourism
DETROIT (Reuters) – Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer on Monday moved to further reopen the Midwest state’s economy, largely rescinding a stay-at-home order in place since March and allowing retailers and restaurants to open back up over the next week. FILE PHOTO: A protester holds a placard during a protest against Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s extended stay-at-home
A waiter serves meals to customers who practice social distancing on a terrace of a newly reopened restaurant, as Netherlands eases some of the lockdown measures put in place during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Amsterdam, Netherlands June 1, 2020. REUTERS/Eva Plevier AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Terraces throughout the Netherlands filled quickly on Monday as
LONDON (Reuters) – British foreign minister Dominic Raab on Sunday defended the government’s careful loosening of the coronavirus lockdown, saying it was the “right step to be taking” at this time. FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Dominic Raab speaks at the daily digital news conference on the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak,
LONDON (Reuters) – British foreign minister Dominic Raab defended on Sunday the government’s “careful” loosening of the coronavirus lockdown, saying it was the “right step to be taking at this moment in time”. FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Dominic Raab speaks at the daily digital news conference on the coronavirus disease
Scotland’s First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, arrives for First Minister’s Statement regarding the next steps of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) lockdown at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh, Scotland, Britain, May 21, 2020. Fraser Bremner/Scottish Daily Mail/Handout via REUTERS LONDON (Reuters) – Scotland’s first minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Sunday she agreed with scientists that any easing
LONDON (Reuters) – England risks losing control of the coronavirus pandemic again because it is starting to lift its lockdown without a fully operational track and trace programme in place, three senior scientific advisers warned on Saturday. FILE PHOTO: Bus stops are seen closed off on Oxford Street to enable better social distancing on the
(Reuters) – As much of the world begins to emerge from lockdown, people are looking back at time spent cut off from friends, family and colleagues by the coronavirus and forward to what happens next. Businesswoman Mable Selina Etambo 39, looks at her phone as seen through the window of her mud-walled house, as authorities
FILE PHOTO: Uber’s logo is pictured at its office in Bogota, Colombia, December 12, 2019. REUTERS/Luisa Gonzalez/File Photo BENGALURU (Reuters) – Uber Technologies Inc will cut around 600 jobs in India as part of its plans to cut 23% of its global workforce, as the company navigates a lockdown that has brought businesses in the
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will reopen thousands of high street shops, department stores and shopping centres next month, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday, setting out a timetable for businesses as part of moves to ease the coronavirus lockdown. He told a news conference that from June 1, outdoor markets and car showrooms could
LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s closest aide defied calls to quit on Monday over accusations that he flouted a coronavirus lockdown by driving 250 miles from London to northern England. Dominic Cummings, special advisor for Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson, makes a statement at 10 Downing Street, following the outbreak of the
MANILA (Reuters) – One by one, Michelle Asinto’s six children take the plate of rice doused in soy sauce and eat their share before passing it on. This is what a meal can look like in the slums around the Philippine capital Manila. Under lockdown since March 16, many families have lost regular incomes and
LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson backed his senior adviser Dominic Cummings on Sunday, despite calls from within his own Conservative Party for the aide to resign for driving 250 miles during the coronavirus lockdown. Cummings, architect of the 2016 campaign to leave the EU, came under pressure when newspapers reported he had
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