Saudi to ban foreign visitors
Saudi Arabia has banned international visitors from making the Islamic pilgrimage, or Hajj, this year in a bid to control corona virus. Only a very limited number of people currently living in the kingdom...
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COVID-19 entered Beijing through “European Salmon” consignment- Chinese Envoy in SL
The Acting Chinese Ambassador to Sri Lanka Hu Wei told President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, COVID-19 had made its way into Beijing recently through a consignment of salmon from Europe and not from person to person...
New guidelines on face Masks
The World Health Organization issued new guidelines on face masks, changing its stance on who should wear a face mask and when. The latest guidelines published on June 5 recommend that the public wear...
First Lady Savita Kovind stitches face masks for Delhi shelter homes.
resident Ram Nath Kovind’s wife Savita Kovind stitched face masks at Shakti Haat in the President’s Estate on April 22 to help fight Covid-19. The masks that Savita Kovind made will be distributed across...
US virus death toll passes 36,000 as Trump clashes with governors, China
Over half of humanity under lockdown as 2.2 million cases reported worldwide and global fatalities surpass 150,000 A paramedic suits up in personal protective equipment on an emergency call for a man in the...
“ozone hole” is healing
The ozone layer above Antarctica is healing. It has healed so much stopping many changes in Southern Hemisphere’s atmosphere. The whole world gets credit. Studies suggest that the Montreal Protocol of 1987, the agreement...
patient 31
A single “super-spreader” known as “patient 31” – a member of a fringe church called Shincheonji – is thought to have caused the rapid rise in cases. Now, the Seoul Metropolitan Government has filed...
Key winners at the 2020 Academy Awards
South Korean social satire “Parasite” won the Oscar for best picture on Sunday, making history as the first film not in the English language to win the movie industry’s highest honor. “Parasite,” about the...
Kirk Douglas,tough guy on screen dead at 103
Kirk Douglas, the cleft-chinned movie star who fought gladiators, cowboys and boxers on the screen and the Hollywood establishment, died on Wednesday at the age of 103, his son Michael Douglas said. “It is...
Space X launches 60 more satellites
Elon Musks Space X network launched 60 more satellites to its Starlink network. With this 60 , the total satellites in orbit that belongs to Starlink will be 182. Which means, Starlink operates more...
