China’s feel-good music video on Covid-19 help for Philippines backfires, sparks anger instead, SE Asia News & Top Stories – The Straits Times

MANILA – A music video that was meant to spotlight China’s efforts to help the Philippines check the spread of the coronavirus drew irate responses here, as it instead came across to many Filipinos who had seen it as a veiled attempt by Beijing to reassert its claims over the>>>

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Coronavirus: Malaysians working, studying in Singapore can’t commute from March 18, SE Asia News & Top Stories – The Straits Times

SINGAPORE – Malaysians who travel to Singapore on a near daily basis for work or study will not be able to do so when a movement restriction order comes into effect on Wednesday (March 18), according to a media statement issued by the National Security Council on Tuesday.  The restrictions on>>>

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‘Super-spreaders’: Covid-19 myth or reality?, Europe News & Top Stories – The Straits Times

PARIS (AFP) – Can a single Covid-19 patient infect dozens of others? Although transmission rates in the current outbreak appear to be far lower, a variety of factors can lead to an individual infecting many. The concept of so-called “super-spreaders” – patients who typically infect far more people than the>>>

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Bear market fears spread to Asia as pandemic declared; STI down 1.5%, Companies & Markets News & Top Stories – The Straits Times

TOKYO (REUTERS) – International shares were established for a rocky ride on Thursday (March 12) as investors tally the financial damages of coronavirus, a day after the US Dow Jones stock index went into bearishness region and also world health and wellness authorities proclaimed the coronavirus a pandemic. Markets hopeless>>>

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China pushes factories to resume, taking the chance of restored coronavirus spread, East Asia News & Top Stories – The Straits Times

BEIJING (BLOOMBERG) – China is attempting to get individuals back to work, taking the chance of a restored spread of the coronavirus. Central and also regional governments are loosening the criteria for factories to resume procedures as they stroll a tightrope in between consisting of an infection that has eliminated>>>

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