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Indonesia covers up to protect orangutans from virus threat

8:49 pm April 4, 2020

Jakarta: Poaching and habitat loss have decimated Indonesia’s orangutan population, but now coronavirus has emerged as another potential deadly threat to the critically endangered species. While there have been no confirmed cases of transmission from humans to the fuzzy-haired apes, they share 97 percent of our DNA. And staff at a rehabilitation centre in jungle-covered […]

Coronavirus: Hundreds of stranded tourists flown out of Nepal

5:19 pm April 4, 2020

Kathmandu: Hundreds of stranded tourists have been flown out of Nepal days after complete lockdown was imposed in the country. According to Tribhuvan International Airport, planes chartered by German, French and Malaysian governments have transported their citizens back home. Two Qatar Airways jets flew 305 Germans and 303 French nationals out of Kathmandu. A Malaysian […]

Netanyahu thanks PM Modi for efforts to protect Israeli representatives following blast near embassy

Netanyahu calls Modi, discusses steps to deal with coronavirus crisis

11:35 pm April 3, 2020

Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday spoke to his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi over telephone to discuss various steps to deal with the coronavirus pandemic that has claimed over 50,000 lives globally. The two leaders have been in touch ever since the coronavirus crisis started. “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke by telephone with […]

China to launch communications satellite named after Wuhan

7:48 pm April 3, 2020

Beijing: China will launch the first two communications satellites for its space-based Internet-of-Things project this month with one of them named after its birthplace Wuhan, the epicentre of coronavirus, officials said on Friday. The rocket to send the satellites, Kuaizhou-1A, was developed by the Wuhan-based Sanjiang Group under the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation […]

Crowded in camps, Rohingya refugees vulnerable to virus

3:37 pm April 3, 2020

Dhaka: Aid workers are bracing for a possible outbreak of the coronavirus in one of the world’s largest refugee camps in Bangladesh, with officials warning that containing the disease among more than 1 million tightly packed Rohingya Muslims will be a daunting task. With about 40,000 people per square kilometer (103,600 per square mile) living […]