From midnight Sunday, Melbourne residents will no longer face limits on the time they can spend away from their homes for education or recreation. Previous restrictions allowing Melburnians to travel only 5 kilometers (3 miles) from home will (...)
The Covid-19 pandemic is affecting the global economy as no crisis has ever done before, with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently releasing a report assessing the current and future impact of it on the external sector of economies or how (...)
Egypt could lose out on tourism revenues worth more than 2 percent of its GDP this year due to global travel restrictions, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said in its 2020 External Sector Report.
The forecast is based on a scenario laid out in (...)
Kuwait will review its suspension of flights to and from Egypt, a statement by the Egyptian foreign ministry said after a phone call between the foreign ministers of Egypt and Kuwait on Sunday.
According to the statement, Egyptian Foreign Minister (...)
Kuwait will review its current suspension of flights to and from Egypt, a statement by the Egyptian foreign ministry said after a phone call between the foreign ministers of Egypt and Kuwait.
According to the statement, Egyptian Foreign Minister (...)
Kuwait has banned until further notice commercial flights to 31 countries it said that it regarded as high risk due to the spread of the coronavirus, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation said on Saturday.
The countries include Egypt, India, (...)
Foreign holdings of Egyptian sovereign debt rose to $10.6 billion by the end of June, and the first two weeks of July saw another $3 bn of inflows to local debt, Bloomberg reports, citing an unnamed Egyptian officials.
The reversal of the massive (...)
A tentative easing around the world of coronavirus lockdowns gathered pace Saturday with the reopening in India of neighborhood stores that many of the country's 1.3 billion people rely on for everything from cold drinks to mobile phone data (...)
India allowed shops in residential areas to reopen from Saturday, more than a month after the country went into lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus, federal and state officials said.
The federal home ministry said late on Friday that (...)
About 500 people entered self-isolation at India's presidential palace on Tuesday after a worker's relative tested positive for the coronavirus in the latest alarm close to public figures as the pandemic spreads through densely populated South (...)
India extended on Tuesday a nationwide lockdown for its 1.3 billion people until May 3 as its prime minister warned of economic sacrifices to save lives as the number of coronavirus cases crossed 10,000.
Sharp downward revisions to economic growth (...)
In South Asia's latest moves to curb the coronavirus pandemic, Bangladesh has extended its nationwide lockdown by 11 days while Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold talks on Saturday with states to decide whether to extend its own stringent (...)
India said on Friday it ramped up coronavirus testing as documented cases there rose above 6,700 and topped 12,000 across South Asia.
The epidemic has killed 206 in India, data shows, with its capital Delhi and financial hub Mumbai emerging as (...)
The number of confirmed new coronavirus cases in South Asia neared 6,000 on Saturday, even as authorities in some cities tightened restrictions on movement and warned lockdowns could be extended in a bid to rein in the pandemic.
"If people don't (...)
Before the US became the epicentre of Covid-19, the virus wreaked havoc in China and Europe. What can happen to South Asia, the most populous region in the world, if it becomes the epicentre of coronavirus is the scenario most feared by many.
The (...)
India's central bank slashed interest rates on Friday in an emergency move to counter the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic after the government locked down the country to slow the spread of infections.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has (...)
Nuclear energy plays an important role in combating coronavirus epidemic around the world, as it enables doctors to accurately detect the virus within hours in humans, as well as in animals.
A diagnostic technique, with the help of nuclear (...)
Bahrain accused Iran on Thursday of "biological aggression" by covering up the spread of the new coronavirus and failing to stamp the passports of Bahraini travellers, as other Gulf Arab states boosted measures to stem rising infections.
Iran, (...)
This week saw growing concerns about the spread of the new coronavirus in Egypt to replace the possible insouciance of a few days earlier when many had done little but joke about the matter.
But that was before the Ministry of Health and Population (...)
The Kuwaiti government took several hesitant yet sharp decisions toward Egypt as part of its Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) precautions measures over the last week. The government started with suspending entry visas for Egyptians, followed by (...)
Kuwait and Oman are imposing more restrictive measures on charter flights to and from a number of countries, including Egypt, in the coming days in an attempt to contain the spread of the coronavirus.
Oman's civil aviation authority announced the (...)
Kuwait said it is suspending on Saturday all flights to and from seven countries, including Egypt, for a week in an effort to combat the spread of the coronavirus outbreak, Kuwait's civil aviation directorate said in a tweet.
The Gulf country said (...)
EgyptAir said it is suspending its daily flights to Kuwait “until further notice,” in the wake of a Kuwaiti suspension of flights to and from Egypt and six other countries over the spread coronavirus.
The national carrier said the decision is (...)
The number of coronavirus cases in the United Arab Emirates has risen to 45 from 30, the Health Ministry said on Saturday, as other countries in the Gulf region also reported new infections.
Kuwait recorded three new cases of the coronavirus, (...)
EgyptAir said it is suspending its daily flights to Kuwait "until further notice," in the wake of a Kuwaiti suspension of flights to and from Egypt and six other countries over a continuing coronavirus outbreak.
The national carrier said the (...)
