Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Indonesia set to open emergency coronavirus hospital on uninhabited island
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia will by next week open a new coronavirus emergency hospital on the uninhabited island of Galang, where authorities have repurposed a former Vietnam war era refugee camp a...
Apr 01, 2020
China clamps down on coronavirus test kit exports after accuracy questioned
By Roxanne Liu and Alexandra Harney BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Beijing is stepping up its oversight of exports of coronavirus test kits after several European countries complained about the accurac...
Apr 01, 2020
Spain reports more than 100,000 coronavirus cases, new daily death toll record
MADRID (Reuters) - The number of cases of coronavirus in Spain surpassed 100,000 on Wednesday while the number of fatalities reported overnight reached a new record, the country's health ministry said...
Apr 01, 2020
Over 100 countries ask South Korea for coronavirus testing help: official
By Hyonhee Shin and Anne Kauranen SEOUL/HELSINKI (Reuters) - South Korea has received requests from 121 countries for help with coronavirus testing, a foreign ministry official said on Wednesday, as a...
Apr 01, 2020
Oil majors slash 2020 spending by 20% after prices slump
LONDON (Reuters) - The world's biggest oil and gas companies are cutting spending this year following a collapse in oil prices driven by a slump in demand because of the coronavirus crisis and a price...
Apr 01, 2020
Iran's coronavirus death toll rises to 3,036: health ministry official
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's death toll from the new coronavirus has reached 3,036, with 138 deaths in the past 24 hours, Health Ministry spokesman Kianush Jahanpur told state TV on Wednesday, adding that...
Apr 01, 2020
Futures tumble as coronavirus crisis intensifies
By Uday Sampath Kumar (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures sank on Wednesday following stark predictions of a rising U.S. death toll and economic damage from the coronavirus outbreak, a day after the ...
Apr 01, 2020
Dutch coronavirus measures have lowered infection rate: health official
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Measures to limit the coronavirus outbreak in the Netherlands appear to have halved the rate of infection but need to be continued to be really effective, the country's top offic...
Apr 01, 2020
In Belarus, some don't wait for Lukashenko to start worrying about coronavirus
By Andrei Makhovsky MINSK (Reuters) - Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko may have called coronavirus a "psychosis" that can be fought with vodka, saunas and driving tractors, but some of his citiz...
Apr 01, 2020
Major Japan department stores book worst-ever sales slump in March
TOKYO (Reuters) - Some of Japan's biggest department store owners on Wednesday reported an unprecedented slump in March sales as the coronavirus outbreak hit tourism and forced stores to shorten their...
Apr 01, 2020
