Madrid, Spain | Wed, October 7, 2020 | 07:43 pm Taxis line up for hours at Madrid airport without picking up a single client while the square outside of the Royal Palace is deserted. Since Friday night, with the capital of the world’s second largest tourist destination in partial lockdown to combat a rise in […]
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Berlin, Germany | Wed, September 30, 2020 | 2:43 pm Germany will impose a cap on the number of people at parties and family gatherings in areas worst affected by the coronavirus, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday after talks with premiers of the country’s 16 states. Merkel said “a reaction is now inevitable” to stop
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Taipei, Taiwan | Sun, September 20, 2020 | 06:21 pm On Saturday, a Taiwanese airline carried about 120 passengers on a “flight to nowhere” to view Jeju’s South Korean resort island, before heading straight back home, the new gimmick to give people a glimpse of normality during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the Association
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Tokyo | Sat, September 12, 2020 | 07:13 pm Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said Friday that Japan will start short-term business travel with Singapore from Sept. 18, marking the first time Tokyo has agreed to allow business people to join without needing a 14-day period of self-isolation in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. “It
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China | Mon, September 7, 2020 | 07:24 pm For the first time , China has shown its home-grown coronavirus vaccines, as the country where the outbreak has been detected looks to form the discourse around the pandemic. High hopes are hanging on the tiny liquid vials on display at this week’s Beijing trade fair
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Cape Town, South Africa | Mon, August 31, 2020 | 11:13 pm Lisa Krohn’s Ashanti Lodge in Cape Town is now completely vacant, an indication of how the pandemic has destroyed the tourism industry in South Africa. “This place is like a morgue,” she said, considering the empty foyer of the Victorian-era house. South Africa is
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Geneva, Switzerland | Tue, August 25, 2020 | 08:12 pm The COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread but the increase in cases and deaths has slowed worldwide, with the exception of Southeast Asia and the eastern Mediterranean areas, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. In its latest epidemiological update, released on Monday night, it said the
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Berlin, Germany | Wed, August 19, 2020 | 08:13 pm The head of Germany’s vaccines regulator said some groups of people living in Germany could be vaccinated early next year against the coronavirus that has killed hundreds of thousands and wreaked havoc on the global economy. More than half a dozen drugmakers
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Taipei | Mon, August 10, 2020 | 08:15 pm US Health Secretary Alex Azar said on Monday that any US vaccine or treatment for COVID-19 would be shared fairly with the rest of the world, once the US need has been satisfied. There are more than 200 COVID-19 vaccine candidates in development around the world,
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Beirut, Lebanon | Wed, August 5, 2020 | 07:42 pm Lebanese rescue workers dug through rubble on Wednesday looking for survivors after a massive warehouse explosion sent a devastating blast wave across Beirut, killing at least 100 people and injuring nearly 4,000. Officials said the toll was expected to rise after the
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