By Reuters Staff, published by News.trust.org London – London’s “Square Mile” financial district plans to convert empty offices into homes and offer lower rents to creative businesses as part of a recovery plan from the Covid-19 pandemic, which has left many working from home and once bustling streets deserted. Built around the vast fortress-like
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Medical supplies flow into India as Covid deaths near 200,000
By Reuters Staff, published by Swissinfo.ch New Delhi – Vital medical supplies poured into India today as hospitals starved of life-saving oxygen and beds turned away coronavirus patients, while a surge in infections pushed the death toll towards 200,000. A shipment from Britain, including 100 ventilators and 95 oxygen concentrators, arrived in Delhi, said Reuters
Read moreFighting erupts in Myanmar; junta to ‘consider’ Asean plan
By Reuters Staff, published by Gulf Today FIGHING erupted in eastern Myanmar near the Thai border early today (April 27) as ethnic minority Karen insurgents attacked an army outpost in some of the most intense clashes since a Feb. 1 coup plunged Myanmar into crisis. The clash came as the junta, in an apparent setback
Read moreCabinet transferring Covid control to Prime Minister
A RESOLUTION was passed at today’s (April 27) Cabinet meeting approving a draft announcement on temporarily transferring all authority and duties on tackling the coronavirus pandemic held by ministers as well those acting under the law to Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, Amarin TV said. Once announced, Gen Prayut will have the full authority to give
Read moreNo pay for 4 infected employees who broke the work from home rule
GOING viral on Thai social media is the risky behaviour of four employees of a company who after three days of working from home went out to eat and shop at a mall where they caught coronavirus with the company now not paying their wages and compensation because they violated a clear rule to
Read moreRecord single day toll of 15 Covid deaths, face mask rule spreadsÂ
THE Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) said this morning (April 27) that the 24-hour Covid death toll reached a record 15 fatalities taking the total to 163 while there were 2,179 new cases with 169 patients requiring ventilators, Thai Rath newspaper said. Meanwhile 52 provinces have followed Bangkok in imposing the mandatory face
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