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Timeline: Wuhan, one year after coronavirus lockdown
(Reuters) - China locked down the central city of Wuhan a year ago at the start of the Lunar New Year, the country's biggest holiday, as it battled to contain the spread of a novel coronavirus. Follow...
Jan 17, 2021
Venezuela dispatches oxygen for Brazil’s Amazonas, reeling from COVID-19
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Sunday that a convoy of trucks carrying emergency oxygen supplies for Brazil's northern Amazonas state, where a second wave of the coron...
Jan 17, 2021
Australia unlikely to fully reopen borders in 2021 as virus cases slide
By Swati Pandey SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia may not fully reopen its international borders this year even if most of the population is vaccinated against coronavirus, the head of its health departmen...
Jan 17, 2021
Japan PM’s approval sinks further on pandemic response: poll
TOKYO (Reuters) - Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's approval rating has slid further due to the public's dissatisfaction with his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic with about half of people in Japan now...
Jan 17, 2021
Fragile Italian government faces do-or-die votes in parliament
By Crispian Balmer ROME (Reuters) - Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte faces two days of parliamentary votes that will decide if his fragile coalition can cling to power or has lost its majority, pushing I...
Jan 17, 2021
Samsung’s Lee faces sentencing for bribery charge after four years of trials
SEOUL (Reuters) - A South Korean court will sentence Samsung Electronics Co Ltd heir Jay Y. Lee on a bribery charge on Monday, a ruling likely to have ramifications for his leadership of the tech gian...
Jan 17, 2021
Ghana president warns of health system overload as COVID cases soar
ACCRA (Reuters) - Ghana's COVID-19 infection rates are skyrocketing and include new strains of the virus not before seen in the country, filling treatment centres and threatening to overwhelm the heal...
Jan 17, 2021
Brazil authorizes emergency use of Sinovac, AstraZeneca vaccines
By Jamie McGeever and Pedro Fonseca BRASILIA/RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian health regulator Anvisa's board on Sunday voted to approve emergency use of COVID-19 vaccines from China's Sinovac Bio...
Jan 17, 2021
Portugal’s health system on brink of collapse as COVID-19 cases surge
LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal's public health system is on the verge of collapsing as hospitals in the areas worst-affected by a worrying surge in coronavirus cases are quickly running out of intensive ...
Jan 17, 2021
In final Trump administration days, Israel approves new settler homes
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel approved on Sunday plans to build hundreds of new settler homes in the occupied West Bank, projects it is advancing in the final days of the pro-settlement Trump administr...
Jan 17, 2021
