Day: April 8, 2020
Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 8, 2020
Germany caught up in mask fraud scheme
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BERLIN: Authorities in Germany have fallen victim to a multi-million-euro fraud involving masks much needed in the coronavirus pandemic, prosecutors said on Tuesday (Apr 7). North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany’s most populous state and one of the hardest hit, paid 14.7 million euros for some 10 million masks in March only to discover they did not exist,
Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 8, 2020
COVID-19: More than 7,000 breaches of elevated safe-distancing measures on Day 1 of ‘circuit breaker’
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SINGAPORE: More than 7,000 written advisories were issued on the first day of a nationwide “circuit-breaker”, a month-long period of enhanced safe-distancing measures to curb the spread of COVID-19. Most of these advisories were issued to members of the public in hawker centres and markets, said the Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources (MEWR) in a media release
Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 8, 2020
British PM in intensive care as UK, New York see record deaths
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LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson battled the coronavirus in intensive care on Tuesday (Apr 7) as his country and New York state recorded their highest number of deaths to date in the global pandemic. The shocking hospitalisation of a major world leader has underscored the global reach of COVID-19, which has put more than
Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 8, 2020
Thousands flock to leave Wuhan as outbound travel ban ends
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WUHAN, China: Thousands of travellers flocked to catch trains leaving Wuhan early on Wednesday (Apr 8) as authorities lifted a more than two-month ban on outbound travel from the hard-hit Chinese city where the global coronavirus pandemic first emerged. The removal of the ban at midnight (1600 GMT Tuesday) ends an isolation that began when
