Indonesia reported 1,331 new coronavirus infections on Thursday (June 18), its biggest daily increase since the outbreak started locally, taking its total number of cases to 42,762. Health ministry official Achmad Yurianto said 63 more deaths were reported on Thursday, with total fatalities now at 2,339, the highest coronavirus death toll in East Asia outside of...
Taiwanese artiste Prince Chiu (邱胜翊) and Hong Kong actress Stephy Tang (鄧麗欣) have been in a steady long distance relationship since 2018, and many have been asking when they will be getting married. Due to COVID-19, they have not seen each other for five months since Lunar New Year. Relying on video calls to stay in touch, Prince reveals...
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the global film industry is severely impacted as many movie theaters are forced to stop operations. In these unprecedented times, theaters are struggling to stay afloat and many employees are at the risk of losing their jobs. Attempting to find new sources of revenue, some theaters in China are coming up...
Schools around the world have been closed after being affected by COVID-19. In order to attract students to take online classes, a Bolivian visual arts teacher, Manolo Villarroel, dressed as different superheroes such as Captain America, Spider-Man and others grab the attention of his students. Besides, it is also a method for him to realize his...
Wedding banquet cancellations and delays left not only wedding couples with shattered dreams of celebrations. Restaurants are also sharing their pain. According to the Selangor and Federal Territory Chinese Restaurant Operators Association, more than two million table reservations have either been cancelled or postponed in the Klang Valley since the movement control order (MCO) was implemented...
Trader He Ximing in the Chinese city of Wuhan says he has no idea how or where he caught the coronavirus or why repeated nucleic acid tests showed he didn't have it. He was not a coronavirus patient, doctors told him, even though he had been having difficulty breathing with what he described as smothering chest...
In his latest address to the nation over the current state of the Covid-19 pandemic in Malaysia, Health Director-General Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah Noor has revealed that as many as 45 private general practitioners have already come down with Covid-19. The numbers have proved worrying enough for Dr Noor Hisham to remind doctors to continue being...
We’ve all been staying at home and looking out for any potential signs of liberation from the coronavirus. And now, we may possibly be on the way to a miracle. As according to the Independent, the University of Oxford will begin human trials of a potential coronavirus vaccine tomorrow. The Oxford team has announced that if the trials...
When the Movement Control Order was announced, hundreds of Malaysian chose to balik kampung despite being advised not to. After 35 Days in MCO, many of them have expressed their desires to return home mainly to Kuala Lumpur. To cope with this, Defence Minister, Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob told in his press conference today that those who balik kampung can now send...
If my counting is right, our house arrest is suppose to end in approximately 6 days’ time. Well, at least those numbers could be true for optimists. Unfortunately, in the real world, we have yet to win the war against Covid-19, and thus, could be spending some more time at home than we would have hoped. All...
