Accusing the World Health Organization (WHO) of “alarming lack of independence from” China, US President Donald Trump has threatened to pull out of the agency and end its funding if it did not institute reforms within a month and end its subservience. In a four-page letter addressed to WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus that he […]
India is among 58 nations, including 27 European Union members, who have moved a draft resolution demanding evaluation of the World Health Organisation (WHO)’s response towards the novel coronavirus pandemic. The European Union-led draft resolution on global COVID-19 response is set to be tabled at the upcoming World Health Assembly on Monday. The draft resolution […]
US President Donald Trump on Saturday once again attacked tech giants like Google, Facebook and Twitter for being controlled by ‘radical left’, adding that the US administration is working to address the alleged political bias against the conservatives on social media platforms. Trump said in the tweet: “The Radical Left is in total command & […]
Launching “Operation Warp Speed” to ready a vaccine against Covid-19 by the end of the year, President Donald Trump said on Friday the US was working with India on the project. “We are working very closely also with India,” Trump said while speaking to reporters when he unveiled the project at the White House. He […]
Brazil Health Minister Nelson Teich has resigned after less than a month in the job following disagreements with President Jair Bolsonaro over the government’s handling of the coronavirus crisis in South America’s largest country, reports said on Friday. Teich’s predecessor Luiz Henrique Mandetta had, in a tweet on April 16, announced that Bolsonaro had handed […]
Renewed geopolitical uncertainty coupled with the emergence of novel coronavirus in China will limit any pick-up in business confidence and investment, and the balance of risks to the global economic outlook appears firmly tilted to the downside, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). Meanwhile, the social unrest seen across the world in 2019 looks […]
The latest air evacuation of Indians, under the Vande Bharat mission, saw 179 Indians from Malaysia, set foot in Kochi on Sunday night. Setting off from Kuala Lumpur, the Air India Express flight IX 683 landed at the Kochi International Airport, around 10.20 p.m. on Sunday. The passengers from Malaysia include 177 adults and 2 […]
The Covid-19 pandemic has crept into the White House, sidelining Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading voice on the pandemic, and posing a threat to US President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence. The reach of the virus into the home of the nation’s leadership comes as some states have begun controversial loosening of the […]
The UK government has admitted sending about 50,000 coronavirus tests to the US last week for processing after “operational issues” in British labs, it was reported on Sunday. The Department of Health said sending swabs abroad were among the contingencies to deal with “teething problems”, the BBC reported. The samples were airlifted to the US […]
Apple on Thursday announced to award $10 million from its Advanced Manufacturing Fund to US-based COPAN Diagnostics, a market leader in sample collection kits that play a critical role in COVID-19 testing. The funding will allow COPAN Diagnostics to rapidly accelerate their supply of COVID-19 sample collection kits for hospitals across the US, reaching more […]