UK Gov’t Confirms Lifting Of Most COVID Restrictions Next Week Despite Surging Cases

LONDON, Jul 13 (NNN-XINHUA) – The British government confirmed most COVID-19 restrictions will end next week, despite surging cases caused by the Delta variant. Most restrictions are set to end on Jul 19, as part of the final step or Step Four of England’s roadmap out of the lockdown, British…

Nigeria’s Economic Hub Raises Alarm Over New Wave Of COVID-19 Infection

LAGOS, Jul 12 (NNN-NAN) – Authorities in Lagos, Nigeria’s economic hub, raised alarm over a possible third wave of COVID-19 pandemic, following a recent increase in cases. Governor of Lagos state, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, announced yesterday, restrictions and sanctions, after disclosing that the state’s daily confirmed cases had shot up recently.…

COVID-19 Positive Students To Sit For National Exams In Rwanda

KIGALI, Jul 12 (NNN-IRIN) – Students being treated for COVID-19 under home-based care in Rwanda, are to sit for their national examinations under strict health protocols, the country’s education ministry, said. All examination centres will set up a separate examination room, which will be disinfected every day, for these students,…

Virgin Galactic Completes First Fully Crewed Test Spaceflight

WASHINGTON, Jul 12 (NNN-XINHUA) – Space tourism company, Virgin Galactic, completed its first fully crewed test flight of its spacecraft yesterday, making a giant leap towards commercial suborbital spaceflight. The mission, dubbed “Unity 22,” was the company’s fourth crewed spaceflight, and the 22nd flight test for the company’s spacecraft VSS…

Death Toll Rises To 90 In U.S. Florida Building Collapse

WASHINGTON, Jul 12 (NNN-XINHUA) – The confirmed death toll in the residential building collapse in Surfside, south-eastern U.S. state of Florida, rose to 90, with 31 people remaining potentially unaccounted for, Miami-Dade County Mayor, Daniella Levine Cava said yesterday, the eighteenth day of the tragedy. “Our hearts and minds are…

Australia-Singapore Travel Bubble Delayed

CANBERRA, Jul 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Australia’s travel bubble with Singapore has been delayed until the end of 2021. Dan Tehan, the Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment, confirmed that the travel bubble, which will allow quarantine-free travel between the two countries for the first time since Mar, 2020, will not…

Several Trapped After Explosion In SW Pakistan’s Coal Mine

ISLAMABAD, Jul 12 (NNN-APP) – Several labourers were trapped, after an explosion happened inside a coal mine in Pakistan’s south-western Balochistan province yesterday, local reports said. The labourers were working inside the mine, in the Marwar area of the provincial capital of Quetta, when the explosion happened, due to the…

Feature: Hospitals Overwhelmed In Indonesia As COVID-19 Cases Surge

by Hayati Nupus JAKARTA, Jul 12 (NNN-XINHUA) – Rochimawati, a journalist in Jakarta, contacted 15 hospitals in the Indonesian capital and West Java province, to treat her 70-year-old brother, who is infected with COVID-19, but has yet to get results. All beds in the hospitals have been fully occupied, as…

Fiji Reports 485 New COVID-19 Cases

SUVA, Jul 12 (NNN-PIN) – Fiji’s Permanent Secretary for Health, James Fong, said yesterday that, 485 new cases of COVID-19 and three COVID-19 related deaths had been recorded during the last 24 hours. There have now been 55 deaths due to COVID-19 in Fiji, with 53, during the outbreak that…

Vietnam’s Daily COVID-19 Spike Hits Record High For 4th Day

HANOI, Jul 12 (NNN-VNA) – Vietnam reported a new record high of 1,953 new COVID-19 cases yesterday, surpassing the previous record of 1,853 cases registered on Saturday, according to its Ministry of Health. The new infections include 1,945 locally transmitted and eight imported, bringing the total tally to 29,816, the…