The coronavirus pandemic is taking its toll on the New York Police Department (NYPD), according to the Commissioner of Police, Mr Dermot Shea. Shea told newsmen that the virus had claimed the lives of three officers and infected 868 others, including 88 civilian staff members who have been quarantined. He disclosed that 4,342 uniformed officers, […]

“We are already ruined. What more harm can coronavirus do?” Irene Kampira asked as she sorted secondhand clothes at a bustling market in a poor suburb of Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare. People in one of the world’s most devastated nations are choosing daily survival over measures to protect themselves from a virus that “might not even […]

The Southern African nations of Lesotho and Zimbabwe on Monday began 21-day lockdown, to curb the spread of the coronavirus, heavily enforced by police and army. While both countries currently have low infection numbers, they both border South Africa, the African nation hardest-hit by the virus, with 1,280 confirmed cases and two deaths. Africa’s most […]

The outbreak of the coronavirus has dealt a shock to the global economy with unprecedented speed. Following are developments on Monday related to the global economy, the work place and the spread of the virus. Repurposing staff Britain’s health service is asking airline cabin crew who have been laid off during the coronavirus pandemic to […]

A fresh bid to overturn a Singapore law banning gay sex failed on Monday (March 30) as a court dismissed several challenges, a setback for efforts to promote greater LGBT rights in South-East Asian region and also Asia in the greater picture. Inherited from the British colonial era, the law is rarely enforced but campaigners […]