Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Uzbek doctor, 39, dies after coronavirus self-treatment
TASHKENT (Reuters) - A doctor in Uzbekistan died on Saturday after unsuccessfully trying to treat a coronavirus infection that he kept secret, the Central Asian nation's healthcare ministry said. The ...
Mar 28, 2020
With eye on election, Trump in high-stakes balancing act over coronavirus response
By Jarrett Renshaw and James Oliphant WASHINGTON, March 28 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump offered a preview of his re-election campaign playbook last year when he visited the building site of a mu...
Mar 28, 2020
On Oklahoma plains, an island of near normality in a pandemic
By Andrew Hay GUYMON, Okla., March 28 (Reuters) - On red cobbled Main Street in Guymon, the biggest town in Oklahoma's panhandle, Jesus Ruiz gives "high and tight" hair cuts as a red, white and blue b...
Mar 28, 2020
Airbus plane delivers face masks from China to coronavirus-hit Spain
PARIS (Reuters) - An Airbus plane landed in Spain on Saturday carrying a cargo of more than 4 million face masks from China, the European planemaker said, as countries race to source more protective g...
Mar 28, 2020
Japan's Abe pledges 'unprecedented' stimulus to combat virus fallout
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Saturday his government will compile an unprecedentedly big economic stimulus that will include cash payouts to households and small firms ...
Mar 28, 2020
China's Wuhan, where the coronavirus emerged, begins to lift its lockdown
By Brenda Goh WUHAN, China (Reuters) - The Chinese city of Wuhan, where the coronavirus outbreak first emerged, began lifting a two-month lockdown on Saturday by restarting some metro services and reo...
Mar 28, 2020
Factbox: Latest on the spread of the coronavirus around the world
(Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives approved a $2.2 trillion aid to help cope with the economic downturn inflicted by the intensifying coronavirus pandemic, and President Donald Trump quickl...
Mar 28, 2020
Ireland may ease coronavirus restrictions on April 12: health minister
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland hopes to be in a position in two weeks to tweak or remove some of the highly restrictive measures introduced on Friday if it can slow down the rate of admission to intensive...
Mar 28, 2020
Indonesia reports 109 new coronavirus cases, taking total to 1,155
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia confirmed 109 new coronavirus infections, taking the total cases in the Southeast Asian country to 1,155, a health ministry official said on Saturday. Achmad Yurianto, th...
Mar 28, 2020
Poland to allow postal votes for elderly, those in quarantine
By Alan Charlish WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland's parliament passed a law early on Saturday allowing postal voting for senior citizens and those in quarantine or self-isolating as the government looks to p...
Mar 28, 2020
