Vietnam PM asks major cities to prepare for lockdown to stop virus
HANOI – Vietnam‘s prime minister has asked major cities to prepare for possible lockdowns to stop the spread of coronavirus as the number of confirmed cases in the Southeast Asian country…
Australia curbs gatherings, locks down travellers, in new coronavirus measures
SYDNEY – Australia‘s two most populous states, New South Wales and Victoria, will restrict public gatherings to two people from midnight, state leaders said today, as part of a wave of…
Vietnam aims to keep number of coronavirus cases in country under 1,000
HANOI – Vietnam is aiming to keep the number of coronavirus cases in the country under 1,000, the government said, as the number of confirmed cases in the Southeast Asian…
Australia to deploy armed forces in coronavirus compliance battle
SYDNEY – Australia is introducing enforced quarantine by midnight on Saturday for citizens returning home from overseas and will deploy the armed forces to ensure people already subjected to self-isolation…
Australia introduces enforced quarantine for returning citizens
SYDNEY – Australia is introducing enforced quarantine by midnight on Saturday for citizens returning home from overseas and will deploy armed forces to ensure people already subjected to self-isolation measures are…
Netherlands suspects trafficking of Vietnamese minors through asylum centres
AMSTERDAM – Almost all the Vietnamese children who arrived in Dutch asylum centres in recent years disappeared and were probably trafficked, the Dutch government advisor on human trafficking has said. Eighty…
Vietnam Finance Ministry plans $US3.39 bln package to help virus-hit businesses
HANOI – Vietnam’s Finance Ministry says it plans to offer a package of 80 trillion dong ($US3.39 billion) to support businesses hard hit by the coronavirus. The virus has left…
Australia enters 4,000 healthcare workers in trial for coronavirus vaccine
SYDNEY – Thousands of Australian healthcare workers will begin a trial to see if a century-old vaccine for tuberculosis can fight off the new coronavirus, researchers said, joining a global test of…
Vietnam quarantines tens of thousands in camps amid vigorous attack on coronavirus
HANOI – Vietnam has sent tens of thousands of people to quarantine camps as waves of overseas citizens return home to escape a coronavirus pandemic spreading in Europe and the…
Olympics: Australia pulls out of 2020 Games, planning for 2021
MELBOURNE – The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) says it cannot assemble a team for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics due to the coronavirus outbreak and that its athletes should prepare for…
