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India has been criticized for handling its migrant worker's crisis after a sudden lockdown that left millions of migrant workers without food, supplies, and means of transportation. Sonu Sood, a well-known Bollywood actor is now lending his hand to help migrant workers by arranging food and buses for them to reach their respective locations. The actor arranged buses for the migrant workers to travel from Maharashtra to Karnataka

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The global tourism industry is struggling as the industry lost billions of dollars in revenues this year due to the coronavirus pandemic. Malaysia was expecting around 30 million tourists and around $21 billion in revenues this year. But COVID-19 destroyed everything. " Malaysia will lose at least 60% of its tourism business by 2020," says Yap Lip Seng, CEO of the Malaysian Hotel Association

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According to the latest reports, more than 100 people have now been tested positive for COVID-19 in the party district of Itaewon in Seoul, Korea. Around 8,500 police officers in Seoul are now tracking more than 11,000 people who were partying in Itaewon over the weekend. A Catholic-run newspaper in Seoul was the first to run with the headline that the outbreak came from “gay nightclubs

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WHO said that the countries are lifting COVID-19 restrictions too soon and it can hamper efforts to contain the virus. Asian countries have reported a resurgence in cases recently. China, Japan, and Korea reported a resurgence in new coronavirus cases. “While Covid-19 accelerates very fast, it decelerates much more slowly. In other words, the way down is much slower than the way up,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said

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According to the data compiled by Eurostat, Spain has one of the highest percentages of flat residents in Europe. Almost two-thirds of the population live in flats, the highest rate for any EU nation apart from Latvia. In Italy, the proportion is around half, and in France, it’s just over a third. In Spain’s tough lockdown, images of people on their balconies applauding healthcare workers have spread across the globe

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Nicholas Johnson from Princeton University, whose academic concentration was in operations research and financial engineering, earned top honors at the Ivy League school. Nicholas Johnson has already worked at Google, interned at Oxford University and will attend MIT in the fall. "Professor Massey inspired me by sharing his ever-present love for operations research and through his advocacy for black and African American students in STEM fields," Johnson said.

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A massive surge in coronavirus cases has now placed Russia among the top three countries in the world most affected by the deadly disease. Russia on Monday reported 11,656 new cases in the last 24 hours, bringing its overall total up to 221,344. More than half of the new cases reported Monday – and in Russia in general – are in its capital of Moscow, according to Reuters.

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The city of Wuhan, the epicentre of the novel coronavirus pandemic in China, has reported its first cluster of infections since a lockdown there was lifted a month ago, stoking concerns of a wider resurgence of the disease. "We're now in a 'war-time' mode," said Jin Hua, the mayor of Shulan, which until the weekend had reported no local cases for more than 70 days.

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Factories in Syria are producing a drug aggressively promoted by President Trump as a possible "game-changer" in the fight against COVID-19, despite a lack of evidence that it can cure the disease. Three Syrian pharmaceutical companies are producing hydroxychloroquine, as well as the antibiotic azithromycin — and other drugs that are still being tested — to combat the illness, according to the World Health Organization representative in Syria.

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South Korea's foreign ministry said Sunday that it had donated two million medical face masks to the U.S. to help fill shortages in hospitals hit hardest by the coronavirus.

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An Iranian missile fired during a live-fire training exercise in the Gulf of Oman struck a support vessel near its target, killing at least 19 sailors and injuring 15 others, Iran's army said Monday. A vessel of this class was struck in a friendly-fire accident on May 10, 2020, by a missile fired by another Iranian ship during a training exercise, according to Iran's army.

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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson published a 60-page document Monday detailing his roadmap on lifting lockdown measures in the United Kingdom after sparking confusion a day earlier by urging those who cannot do their jobs from home to get back to work.

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New York Governor, Andrew Cuomo said in a statement that some regions of the New York State are set to open businesses from May 15. Regions include Southern Tier, Rochester, and Finger Lakes. Cuomo reviewed each region in the state against the 7 key criteria outlined for areas to qualify for reopening. Some areas have met the threshold Monday, Cuomo said, but need to complete some logistical planning before Friday

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According to a UK-based consultancy firm Skytrax, Singapore Changi Airport has been named the world’s best airport 2020 for a record 8th consecutive year. Tokyo’s Haneda Airport came at the second spot followed by Doha's Hamad International Airport at number 3. Chief Executive Officer of Changi Airport Group said, “Changi Airport is humbled to receive this affirmation from our travellers, made possible by the strong support from our airport partners”

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According to the latest numbers released by health officials, coronavirus cases around the world have now crossed 4.2 million. The death toll now stands at 284,000 as the total recoveries jumped above 1.5 million. US tops the list with more than 1.35 million COVID-19 cases followed by Spain with 268,000 cases. Russia crossed the UK to reach the third spot after a recent jump in coronavirus cases

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Several countries around the world under China’s Belt and Road initiative (BRI) are facing economic issues due to the coronavirus pandemic. Countries under the BRI initiative borrowed heavily from China and now they are on the brink of default. China could find itself having to write off massive loans as countries that owe Beijing money under its massive infrastructure project struggle with mounting debts in the coronavirus fallout

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COVID-19 has had a devastating impact on travel, with the UN World Tourism Organization estimating that international tourism could decline by up to 80% this year over 2019. Countries are now planning for the future for the survival of tourism. New Zealand and Australia have committed to creating a "travel bubble" allowing visits between the two countries. Vietnam and Thailand could look at creating a travel corridor between two countries

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New Zealand eased restrictions on coronavirus lockdown as the country announced to open malls, cinemas, gyms, and cafes across different parts of the country from Thursday. New Zealand started easing lockdown measures late last month. The country has reported fewer than 10 new cases per day for most of the past one month, with the total confirmed infections standing at 1,147

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The total number of Coronavirus cases in Pakistan jumped above 30,000 on Monday as the country reported more than 1,500 cases in the last 24 hours. The death toll stands at 667. Pakistan conducted around 290,000 tests so far which makes the infection rate at around 10%. A Pakistan army major died of the coronavirus in the country’s northwestern city of Peshawar on Sunday, the military said on late Sunday

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Soldiers from both sides got injured in incidents that took place in the last week. The incidents took place along the Ladakh and Sikkim borders. The clash in Ladakh happened on the evening of 5 May, near the northern banks of the 134-km Pangong Tso lake. Two-thirds of the lake, which extends from Tibet to Ladakh, is controlled by China. The situation is under control now

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According to the latest reports, A nurse at a New York City hospital has been accused of stealing and charging a patient's credit card while he was fighting COVID-19. Danielle Conti, 43, a nurse at Staten Island University Hospital, is facing charges of grand larceny, criminal possession of stolen property, and petit larceny after a patient's daughter, called police on April 28 for noticing a charge on her father’s card

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Paul Stoffels, Chief Scientific Officer of healthcare giant Johnson and Jonhson said that the company is looking to produce around 1 billion coronavirus vaccines by next year. “We are upscaling manufacturing, and we start producing in the late year with the aim to deliver 1 billion vaccines next year,” Stoffels said. Clinical trials will start in September this year, he added

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South Korea's coronavirus response has been one of the best in the world, South Korea was at risk of becoming among the world's worst-affected countries. But the country managed to avoid the peaks and fatalities seen elsewhere due to the government's implementation of an aggressive test, trace, and contain policy. A tracking app using GPS on mobile phones paired with CCTV footage managed to identify Covid-19 carriers

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England is expected to require incoming airline passengers to self-quarantine for 14 days upon arrival in the country due to concerns about the coronavirus, according to local reports. Full details of the new measure are not yet known, but sources told the network that passengers would need to provide the address of a private residence where they plan to isolate when they land.

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Iran is ready for a full prisoner exchange with the United States, according to a spokesman for the Iranian government. Rabiei said Tehran considers Washington responsible for the health of the Iranian prisoners, adding "it seems the US has more readiness to bring the situation to an end". "There is no need for a third country to mediate between Iran and America for the prisoner exchange," Rabiei said on Sunday

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