BEIJING– Fengtai, one of 16 districts of Beijing Municipality, today started district-wide nucleic acid testing, as local COVID-19 cases have been reported recently, local authorities said. The district has found a cluster infection, and is facing the risk of community transmission, according to a statement released by the district’s COVID-19 epidemic prevention and control […]
Continue ReadingISTANBUL– “I couldn’t help but cry for a while,” Furkan Akar, a 19-year-old Turkish athlete, talked about his feelings, when he finally earned his qualification to represent his country in the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics. “A miracle happened … I had one last race left, one last hope. We set the tactics with my […]
Continue ReadingSINGAPORE– Singapore reported 2,463 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 yesterday, bringing the total tally to 310,276. Of the new cases, 873 were detected through PCR (polymerase chain reaction) tests, and 1,590 through ART (antigen rapid test) tests, according to the statistics released by the Ministry of Health. Among the PCR cases, 636 were […]
Continue ReadingLIMA— Peru declared an environmental emergency Saturday to battle an oil spill caused by freak waves from a volcanic eruption in the South Pacific. The stunningly powerful eruption last Saturday of an undersea volcano near Tonga unleashed tsunami waves around the Pacific and as far away as the United States. In Peru, the […]
Continue ReadingKUALA LUMPUR– Malaysia reported 4,116 new COVID-19 cases as of midnight, bringing the national total of infections to 2,829,089, according to the health ministry. There are 498 new imported cases and 3,618 cases are local transmissions, data released on the ministry’s website showed. A further 14 deaths have been reported, bringing the death […]
Continue ReadingGENEVA— Covax aims to break the Covid-19 pandemic in 2022 by ensuring a steady supply of vaccines at last for the world’s poorest countries — and swiftly getting them into arms. The global scheme, aimed at procuring donor-funded jabs for the 91 weakest economies, delivered its one billionth dose last weekend — a major […]
Continue ReadingBUENOS AIRES— Argentina’s bottled wine exports hit a historic high in 2021 worth $817 million, the foreign ministry reported Saturday. The previous high was the $786 million in foreign wine sales marked in 2012. Leading export destinations were the United States, Britain, Brazil, Canada and the Netherlands, according to the report, based on […]
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