Death toll rises to 17 in partial collapse of China hotel

Published On: July 14, 2021 12:58 PM NPT By: Reuters

BEIJING, July 14: The death toll in the partial collapse of a budget hotel in China's eastern city of Suzhou on Monday has risen to 17, state media said on Wednesday.

Anger mounts after 92 die in fire on Iraq COVID ward

Published On: July 14, 2021 11:17 AM NPT By: Reuters

NASSIRIYA, Iraq, July 14: The death toll from a fire that tore through a coronavirus hospital in southern Iraq rose to 92, health officials said on Tuesday, as authorities faced accusations of negligence from grieving relatives and a doctor who works there.

USA, July 14: The COVID-19 curve in the U.S. is rising again after months of decline, with the number of new cases per day doubling over the past three weeks, driven by the fast-spreading delta variant, lagging vaccination rates and Fourth of July gatherings.

GENEVA, July 13: The World Health Organization's chief scientist has advised individualsagainst mixing and matching COVID-19 vaccines from different manufacturers, saying such decisions should be left to public health authorities.

Malaysia shuts vaccination centre after 200 workers infected

Published On: July 13, 2021 02:10 PM NPT By: Reuters

KUALA LUMPUR, July 13: A COVID-19 vaccination centre in Malaysia was ordered to close for sanitisation on Tuesday after more than 200 volunteers and workers there tested positive over the weekend, the country's science minister said.

South Korea ups minimum wages of domestic and foreign workers

Published On: July 13, 2021 01:26 PM NPT By: RSS

KATHMANDU, July 13: The minimum wages of all domestic and foreign workers including Nepalis have been hiked in South Korea.

July 13: Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N) said on Monday it was in discussions with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration about rare cases of a neurological disorder, Guillain-Barré syndrome, that have been reported following vaccination with the Janssen COVID-19 vaccine.

BANGKOK, July 11: Soe Win stood in line at a plant to buy oxygen for his grandmother, who is struggling with COVID-19 symptoms.

MELBOURNE, July 11: Australia reported its first coronavirus-related death of the year on Sunday and a 2021 record 77 new cases of the virus in the state of New South Wales, which is battling an outbreak of the highly infectious Delta variant.

DHAKA, July 10: The owner of a food-processing factory in Bangladesh was arrested for murder on Saturday over a fire that killed 52 people who were trapped inside the building, police said.