TOKYO (Reuters) – At the beginning of April, a young Japanese sumo wrestler known as Shobushi came down with a fever. His coaches tried calling a local public health centre to get him a coronavirus test, but the phone lines were busy. FILE PHOTO: A medical worker conducts a simulation for drive-through polymerase chain reaction
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MANILA (Reuters) – Police in the Philippine capital did a dry run on Tuesday of measures to enforce social distancing on public transport and control the spread of coronavirus, a tricky task in a densely populated city known for its commuting chaos. More than 500 police trainees in Manila posed as rail passengers in an
GUAYAQUIL/QUITO, Ecuador (Reuters) – Dolores Centeno has scoured the morgues and cemeteries of Guayaquil, Ecuador’s largest city, for two months searching for her father’s body. Hector Vanegas, a lawyer representing families who are looking for their deceased loved ones who have been lost or misidentified during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), meets with
GRAN CANARIA (Reuters) – About 80 African migrants packed aboard two fishing boats landed on the Spanish island of Gran Canaria on Tuesday, adding to the hundreds of new arrivals now stuck there while the coronavirus lockdown prevents transfers to the mainland. A group of immigrants is pictured at Las Carpinteras beach on the island
People wearing face masks sit at an outdoor seating section of a kiosk at Retiro Park as it is reopened for the first time in more than 2 months amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Madrid, Spain May 25, 2020. REUTERS/Sergio Perez MADRID (Reuters) – Spain will lift a requirement for foreign tourists to
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Long divided between those pushing for a hardline stance and others advocating cautious engagement, President Donald Trump’s China advisers – under the shadow of the coronavirus crisis – appear to have moved closer together on a tougher approach to Beijing. FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks to the media
LONDON (Reuters) – Lawmakers from Britain’s ruling Conservatives Party on Sunday called for the resignation of Dominic Cummings, the senior adviser to Prime Minister Boris Johnson who travelled 400 km (250 miles) to northern England during the coronavirus lockdown. FILE PHOTO: Conservative MP Steve Baker walks outside Downing Street in London, Britain October 22, 2019.
FILE PHOTO: A man walks on the stret as Argentine President Alberto Fernandez announced an extension of the lockdown it has imposed as a measure to control the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Buenos Aires, Argentina April 10, 2020. REUTERS/Matias Baglietto BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina extended until June 7 a mandatory lockdown
KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) – The flight data recorder from the Pakistani airliner that crashed into a residential neighbourhood of Karachi has been found, an official said on Saturday, as the death toll rose to 97. Family members mourn the death of a relative who was killed in a plane crash, outside a morgue in Karachi,
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. Picture taken May 18, 2020. REUTERS/Agustin Marcarian BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina surpassed 10,000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus on Friday, after recording the highest single-day increase since the
Tables are seen in a classroom as teacher Rhiannon Sharman makes preparations for Watlington Primary School to reopen to children on June 1, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), Watlington, Britain, May 21, 2020. REUTERS/Eddie Keogh LONDON (Reuters) – It should be for British schools to decide when to reopen following nationwide closures
FILE PHOTO: Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi speaks at an event hosted by Middle East Monitor in London, Britain, September 29, 2018. Middle East Monitor/Handout via REUTERS RIYADH (Reuters) – The family of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi said on Friday that they have forgiven those who murdered their father, his son Salah wrote in a
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has pledged to build 2,000 new ventilators for coronavirus patients that even the government says hospitals are unlikely to need. A unit of Sanko Manufacturing Co.’s ‘Lotus SS-1200’ ventilator, is seen as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues at the factory in Saitama, north of
People walk on a street as the city allowed some businesses to reopen on Wednesday following a fall in daily deaths due to the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Guayaquil, Ecuador May 20, 2020. REUTERS/Vicente Gaibor del Pino QUITO (Reuters) – Ecuador’s largest city allowed some businesses to reopen on Wednesday following a
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – The idea of testing the BCG vaccine in Africa against COVID-19 was bound to cause controversy, yet officials say efforts underway could, if successful, give the continent a cheap and easily deployable weapon against the virus. Researchers studying the BCG vaccine for tuberculosis test samples in a laboratory run by South
FILE PHOTO: Gravediggers carry the coffin of Avelino Fernandes Filho, 74, who passed away from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), during his funeral in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 18, 2020. REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazil’s daily death toll from the new coronavirus jumped to a record 1,179 on Tuesday as President Jair