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Feb 26 (DW) - Scotland on Tuesday was poised to become the first country in the world to make menstrual products free, after members of the Scottish Parliament voted unanimously to support a new bill. The country's devolved parliament passed the first vote on legislation that would make products including tampons and sanitary pads freely available in Scotland. 112 members present voted for the bill, and one abstained....
Dubai, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Two more Iranians infected with the new coronavirus have died in Iran, local media website Eghtesaonline reported on Tuesday, citing the head of the Medical Science University of Saveh, raising the death toll in the Islamic Republic to 14. “Tests showed they had the new coronavirus,” the official said, according to Eghtesaonline. Iran’s Health Ministry...
Kabul, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Afghanistan’s minister of public health said on Monday the country had identified its first case of coronavirus. Ferozuddin Feroz, the minister of public health, told a press conference in Kabul one of three suspected cases had been confirmed in the Western province of Herat. He announced a state of emergency in the province, which borders...
D.E.W Gunsekara said China is a "strong, sovereign and independent state that can act to protect its people.
Washington, Feb 22 (AFP) - Thousands of Russian-linked social media accounts have launched a coordinated effort to spread alarm about the new coronavirus, disrupting global efforts to combat the epidemic, US officials told AFP. The disinformation campaign promotes unfounded conspiracy theories that the United States is behind the Covid-19 outbreak, in an apparent bid to damage the US image by seizing...
Seoul, Feb 22 (Reuters) - South Korea said on Saturday that the number of people infected with the coronavirus in the country had more than doubled to 433. Korea’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 142 new cases at a morning briefing and another 87 in the afternoon. It had reported 204 cases on Friday. Of the new cases,...
"China has always stood by us in times of need. It is now our turn to support China," said former Minister Mano Ganeshan
Beijing, Feb 21 (Reuters) - A coronavirus patient initially discharged following recovery in southwestern Sichuan province’s Chengdu city has been readmitted after testing positive again during a quarantine period at home, the city’s public health clinical center said on Friday. Similar cases have been reported in other regions, the center said in a statement. China’s National Health Commission recommends recovered...
Geneva, Feb 19 (AP) - Despite a virus outbreak spreading from China, a top World Health Organization official said Tuesday it's much too soon to say whether the Tokyo Olympics are at risk of being cancelled or moved. Tokyo organizers and the International Olympic Committee have repeatedly said they have no contingency plans for the July 24-Aug. 9 Summer Games...
43 year old tourist was the first and till now the only corona virus infected in Lanka.
