Myanmar Extended COVID-19 Restrictions Until End Of Nov

YANGON, Nov 2 (NNN-MNA) – Myanmar extended its COVID-19 preventive measures until Nov 30, the Central Committee on Prevention, Control and Treatment for COVID-19, said in a statement. The extension is applied to all COVID-19 restrictions that expired on Oct 31, except the ones that will be eased, the committee…

Roundup: S.Korea’s Police Admitted Bungled Preventive Measures Over Halloween Crowd Crush

SEOUL, Nov 2 (NNN-YONHAP) – South Korea’s police chief, yesterday, admitted bungled preventive measures towards a deadly crowd crush that occurred Saturday night, at the Itaewon district of the South Korean capital Seoul, during Halloween celebrations. Yoon Hee-keun, commissioner general of the National Police Agency, told a parliamentary committee that,…

Indian Auto Companies Saw Robust Sales In Oct

MUMBAI, Nov 2 (NNN-PTI) – Indian auto companies reported robust sales in Oct, the corporate filing on bourses showed, yesterday. “Our sales volume continued to grow in Oct, on the back of strong festive demand,” said Veejay Nakra, president of the automotive division at Mahindra & Mahindra, which sold 32,226…

Detection Of New COVID-19 Sub-Variants In India Raises Concern

by Peerzada Arshad Hamid NEW DELHI, Nov 2 (NNN-XINHUA) – New virulent sub-variants of Omicron, spreading COVID-19 infection, detected in India, raising concerns over infections spreading with the onset of winter. Sub-variants XBB, XBB.1 and XBB.3 have been found in various parts of India. XBB, a recombinant lineage between two…

S.Korea Reported 58,379 New COVID-19 Cases

SEOUL, Nov 1 (NNN-YONHAP) – South Korea reported 58,379 new COVID-19 cases as of midnight, compared to 24 hours ago, raising the total number of infections to 25,615,667, the health authorities said today. The daily caseload was up from 18,510 in the previous day and higher than 43,742 tallied a…

Palestinian Authorities Call For Stopping Israel’s Nuclear Programmes

RAMALLAH, Nov 1 (NNN-WAFA) – Palestinian Foreign Minister, Riyad al-Maliki, yesterday called for stopping and destroying Israel’s nuclear programmes, to establish a nuclear-weapon-free zone. Al-Maliki made the appeal, in response to the adoption by the First Committee of the UN General Assembly, of a resolution submitted by Egypt, urging Israel…

Int’l arrivals in Vietnam surged in first 10 months

HANOI, Nov 1 (NNN-VNA) – Vietnam saw nearly 2.4 million international arrivals in the first 10 months of this year, increasing nearly 19 times from the same period last year, but still much lower than the pre-pandemic period in 2019, the General Statistics Office, said today. From Jan to Oct,…

Bangladesh Rescheduled Office Hours

DHAKA, Nov 1 (NNN-BSS) – The Bangladeshi government, yesterday, has again rescheduled the office time from Nov, following the previous change which was due to a power crunch. The decision was made at a cabinet meeting, with Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, in the chair, Cabinet Secretary, Khandker Anwarul Islam, told…

Brunei’s Daily Average COVID-19 Cases Rose For Fifth Straight Week

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Nov 1 (NNN-ANN) – Brunei logged a daily average of 485 new COVID-19 cases in the past week, compared to 437 cases per day the week before, an increase of five consecutive weeks, official statistics released yesterday, showed. According to the health ministry’s briefing, 41,068 antigen rapid…

30 injured as minibus collided with truck in southern Afghanistan

QALAT, Afghanistan, Nov 1 (NNN-ANA) – A total of 30 people sustained injuries, as a minibus collided with a truck, in Afghanistan’s southern Zabul province yesterday, head of the province’s health department, Abdul Hakim Hakimi, said. The accident, according to the official, took place in Mizan district, around noon, leaving…