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…

Bangladesh Sees New Daily Record Of 230 COVID-19 Deaths, 11,874 Cases

DHAKA, Jul 12 (NNN-BSS) – Bangladesh witnessed a double record yesterday, registering 11,874 new COVID-19 cases, and 230 related deaths in just 24 hours, according to figures from the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). With the newly reported fatalities, the death toll in the country has reached 16,419. The…

Cambodia’s COVID-19 Cases Surpass 60,000 With 981 New Infections

PHNOM PENH, Jul 12 (NNN-AKP) – Cambodia’s COVID-19 total caseload surged to 60,959 yesterday, after 981 new infections were reported across the country in the last 24 hours, the Ministry of Health (MoH) said in a statement. A total of 21 new fatalities had been confirmed, taking the national death…

Landmine Casualties In Cambodia Down 32 Percent In First Half Of 2021: Report

PHNOM PENH, Jul 12 (NNN-AKP) – Cambodia reported 26 landmine and explosive remnant of war (ERW) casualties, in the first half of 2021, down 32 percent compared with 38 over the same period last year, said a report released yesterday. During the Jan-Jun period this year, eight people were killed…

Sri Lanka Receives Two Million Doses Of Sinopharm Vaccines

COLOMBO, Jul 12 (NNN-XINHUA) – Sri Lanka’s Health Ministry yesterday received two million doses of Sinopharm vaccines from China, leading to a total of 7.1 million Sinopharm doses arriving in the country since Mar. The vaccines arrived onboard two Sri Lankan Airlines flights, which arrived at the Bandaranaike International Airport…

Gunfight Leaves Two Militants Dead In Eastern Indonesia

JAKARTA, Jul 12 (NNN-ANTARA) – At least two suspected terrorists were killed during a shootout yesterday, between Indonesian security forces and suspected members of the Daesh-affiliated terrorist group, East Indonesia Mujahidin (MIT), in the country’s eastern province of Central Sulawesi. The gunfight took place in Parigi Moutong district at about…
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