Coronavirus lockdown
New Zealand ends snap virus lockdown in largest city
The stay-at-home order for the city of almost two million was issued on Sunday after three community cases emerged, the first lockdown in Auckland for almost...
According to New York-based Chartable, a total of 885,262 new podcasts were launched worldwide in 2020, almost triple the 318,517 new offerings the year before.
Cabinet had 'approved the recommendations for reopening educational institutions' to all students, spokesman Dennis Katungi said.
The lockdown, ordered after some hospitals started to run out of intensive care beds, includes a 24-hour curfew until January 25.
From Sydney to Rome, firework displays, pyre burnings and live performances will be watched online or on television -- if they have not been cancelled altogether.
Israelis will be barred from travelling more than one kilometre (1,000 yards or so) from their homes and businesses will be closed except for deliveries.
The Garden Route is an infection hotspot but it managed to avoid a return to stricter lockdown regulations.
Finance and Economic Opportunities MEC David Maynier said that their immediate focus was on kick-starting the domestic tourism sector.
The number of confirmed cases is now more than 1,000 with 19 dead, far fewer than in South Africa but the signs are ominous.
The latest moves come as Africa's most populous nation continues to register a steady rise in new cases, with 24,567 infections and 565 deaths recorded so far.
In a televised speech, Sall pointed to the economic fallout of the pandemic, saying that growth in the impoverished country would slow "from to 6.8% to 1.1% or even less".
While there is still no simple answer to that question, a lot has changed in the six months since an entirely new coronavirus began sweeping the globe.
President Kais Saied has cut the curfew hours to 11 pm to 5 am instead of 8 pm to 6 am, state news agency TAP reported, 10 days after the start of a gradual reopening of the bureaucracy and economy.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) said 100,000 people filed for unemployment benefits, while a further 500,000 left the workforce altogether.
The 94-year-old monarch has stepped back from public duties and is quarantining at Windsor Castle with her husband Prince Philip.
While different ways of counting make comparisons with other countries difficult, the figure confirmed Britain was among those hit worst by a pandemic that has killed more than 285,000 worldwide.
Mosques will be reopened for prayers during the holy month of Ramadan, and churches will also be allowed to accept worshippers.
In a new report, the UN sets out six key human rights messages that it says must be central to an effective response to the pandemic.
Four million people -- an estimated 72% of them men -- will return to their construction sites and factories as the economically and emotionally shattered country tries to get back to work.