On March 16, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte decreed a “community quarantine” until April 15 on the island of Luzon, which is home to at least 57 million people. The closure of schools, offices, transport, and all economic and commercial activities has been ordered, excluding pharmacies and food. The stringent measures taken block over half of the country’s population in an attempt to curb coronavirus outbreaks
Prior to her sentence, Rozi spent nearly two years detained in the XUAR’s vast network of internment camps, where authorities are believed to have held up to 1.8 million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities since April 2017. The imprisonment of Rozi demonstrates how not even long-time civil servants are safe amid the campaign of mass incarceration in the region, where authorities regularly label
Since Friday, March 13, Soldiers carried out offensive through the land and the lake. In Bambalnag, one of the villages of the Ndop central subdivision, they came through the water (Mbissa) from Kutaba through the Bamendjin dam that separates the West from the village
The alarm caused by the Coronavirus touches the area of Bethlehem with particular vehemence. The city where Jesus was born has been placed under quarantine since last week, after the first 16 cases of people infected by Covid-19 had been diagnosed in the area
The United Nations last week launched an appeal for more than $800 million this year to support some 855,000 Rohingya refugees and 444,000 Bangladeshis in host communities in southeastern Bangladesh
Zimbabwe government urged people to avoid huge gatherings during the Easter holidays, not to travel to some nations ravaged by the disease and avoid close contact with anyone with a cold or flu-like symptoms
Unconfirmed reports indicate that the coronavirus outbreak centered around the Huanan Seafood Market in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, where wild animals were kept in close proximity ready for sale
Children’s responses to the park were seemingly enthusiastic. A small girl pointed to a dinosaur and screamed “It’s real!” while another gave a shy hug to a Smurf. Parents, however, were a bit harder to please
In February, the Sri Lankan government appointed a special team of six members to help the police in gathering information and accelerating a presidential investigation about the devastating attack. President Rajapaksa announced to “accelerate the ongoing investigation on the attack” that have proved to be crucial in his electoral success last November
Media reports also highlighted a video conference call between health minister Ma Xiaowei and World Health Organization (WHO) officials, during which he “shared China’s experience in resisting the epidemic.”