JUNE 17, 2020
FILE Photo: WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. - FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images
The World Health Organization (WHO) said it was moving to update its guidelines on treating people stricken with COVID-19 to reflect results of a clinical trial that showed a cheap, common steroid can help save critically ill patients.
Trial results announced on Tuesday showed dexamethasone, used...
JUNE 16, 2020
Facebook will now allow users to turn off political ads, the company's CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced in a USA Today op-ed published Tuesday.
"For those of you who've already made up your minds and just want the election to be over, we hear you — so we're also introducing the ability to turn off seeing political...
JUNE 16, 2020
Tulsa's BOK Center will host President Donald Trump's first campaign rally since taking a hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic. - Tom McCarthy/AP Photo
An Oklahoma judge on Tuesday denied a request to stop a rally for President Donald Trump in Tulsa unless its organizers imposed social-distancing guidelines to combat the spread of coronavirus.
Earlier in the day, two...
JUNE 16, 2020
Norway has had to pause use of its app, pending a review
Norway's health authority has had to delete all data gathered via its Covid-19 contact-tracing app and suspend further use of the tool.
The Norwegian Data Protection Authority ruled the Smittestopp app represented a disproportionate intrusion into users' privacy.
A switch to a rival design backed by Apple...
JUNE 16, 2020
New Delhi: The auspicious occasion of Yogini Ekadashi will be marked this year on June 17. The day falls on in the month of Ashadha during the Krishna Pakshathe waning phase of the moon, as per North Indian calendar and during Krishna Paksha of Jyaishta month according to the South Indian calendar. Like all Ekadashis, it is...
JUNE 16, 2020
India is set to lose around 130 million jobs due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and 40% of those would be blue-collar jobs, says a report by Global Consultants.
India has crossed over 3 lakh confirmed Covid-19 cases and the numbers continue to rise. More than 9000 people have died because of the coronavirus. The states with the highest...
JUNE 16, 2020
A Commanding Officer of the Indian Army and two soldiers were killed during a "violent face-off" with the Chinese troops in Ladakh in unprecedented and dangerous escalation of an intense faceoff between the two armies since April.
“During the de-escalation process underway in the Galwan Valley, a violent face-off took place yesterday night with casualties. The loss of...
JUNE 16, 2020
FILE PHOTO: New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks during an interview with Reuters in Wellington, - Reuters/Reuters Staff
New Zealand said on Tuesday that it has two new cases of the coronavirus, both related to recent travel from the UK, ending a 24-day streak of no new infections in the country.
New Zealand lifted all social and economic...
JUNE 16, 2020
Moving to check the slide in ties with Nepal, government sources indicated Monday that New Delhi is willing to hold talks with Kathmandu on the boundary dispute if the KP Sharma Oli government there creates a “conducive atmosphere” and “positive situation”.
Sources said feelers have been sent to the Oli government to pause the process of getting parliamentary...
JUNE 15, 2020
FILE PHOTO: Temporary morgue outside Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn during outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in New York. - Reuters/Mike Segar
A new forecast projects 201,129 deaths due to COVID-19 in the United States through the beginning of October mainly due to reopening measures under way, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at...
