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…
Australian coronavirus cases spike, cruise with sick passengers denied entry
SYDNEY – Australians has begun living under strict new lockdown rules today as coronavirus cases topped 1,600 and authorities denied entry to a cruise ship carrying hundreds on board complaining of…
Victoria state brings forward school holidays amid coronavirus outbreak
SYDNEY – Australia‘s Victoria state will bring forward school holidays to plan for “remote, flexible learning”, Premier Daniel Andrews told a news conference as states plan for the coronavirus pandemic. “If people simply…
Vietnam coronavirus cases rise 19 to 113
HANOI – Vietnam‘s health ministry has reported 19 new coronavirus cases, bringing the total number of cases there to 113. In mid-February, Vietnam said all 16 of its confirmed coronavirus cases had recovered,…
