Tokyo Reports 3,709 New COVID-19 Cases With Concern Over Hospital Beds Shortages

TOKYO, Aug 4 (NNN-NHK) – The Tokyo metropolitan government reported 3,709 new COVID-19 cases yesterday, with growing concern about shortages of hospital beds, prompting Prime Minister, Yoshihide Suga, to decide that only severe cases should be hospitalised, local media reported. New COVID-19 cases in Tokyo dropped to 2,195 the previous…

Vietnam Reports 8,429 New COVID-19 Cases, 170,190 In Total

HANOI, Aug 4 (NNN-VNA) – Vietnam recorded 8,429 new COVID-19 cases yesterday, including 8,377 locally transmitted and 52 imported, according to the country’s Ministry of Health. The new infections brought the total tally to 170,190, with 2,071 deaths, the ministry said. Among the community cases, 4,171 were reported in the…

Turkey Reports 24,832 Daily COVID-19 Cases

ANKARA, Aug 4 (NNN-ANADOLU) – Turkey yesterday registered 24,832 new COVID-19 cases, raising its tally of infections to 5,795,665. The death toll from the virus rose by 126 to 51,645, while 6,243 more people recovered in the last 24 hours, according to the Turkish Health Ministry. A total of 256,163…

Lebanese President Supports Transparent Investigation Ahead Of Port Explosions’ Anniversary

BEIRUT, Aug 4 (NNN-NNA) – Lebanon’s President, Michel Aoun, said yesterday that, he fully supports an impartial investigation, into the blasts that rocked the Beirut port last year, MTV local TV channel reported. In a speech on the eve of the first anniversary of explosions that rocked the Beirut port…

Israel Decides To Reimpose Some Restrictions Amid Resurgence Of COVID-19 Cases

JERUSALEM, Aug 4 (NNN-PNN) – Israel’s anti-virus cabinet, decided to reimpose some restrictions, to contain the resurgence of COVID-19 cases, while urging the public to get vaccinated. After a four-hour session, the cabinet said, starting on Sunday, mask-wearing will be required for outdoor events with more than 100 people. The…

Pentagon Lifts Lockdown After Gunshots Fired Near Metro Bus Station

WASHINGTON, Aug 4 (NNN-XINHUA) – The Pentagon lifted the lockdown roughly an hour and a half after multiple gunshots were fired near the Metro bus platform, outside the building yesterday. The Pentagon Force Protection Agency, which sent out a lockdown alert, following the “shooting event,” said that, the facility reopened…

Wildfires Rage In Greece Amid Worst Heatwave In 40 Years

ATHENS, Aug 4 (NNN-AMNA) – Greece experienced the most painful consequences of the worst heatwave that hit the country, in the last 40 years, said Deputy Minister for Civil Protection and Crisis Management, Nikos Hardalias, last night. A total of 81 forest fires broke out in Greece in the last…

Malta Rescues 43 Migrants

VALLETTA, Aug 4 (NNN-AGENCIES) – The Armed Forces of Malta (AFM), yesterday, rescued a boatload of 41 migrants, who were in difficulty, while in the island’s search and rescue region, according to a police spokesman. The AFM also medically evacuated two migrants, rescued by a rescue vessel operated by an…

Lockdown Extended Again In Nepal’s Kathmandu Valley

KATHMANDU, Aug 4 (NNN-XINHUA) – The authorities in Nepal’s Kathmandu Valley, yesterday, decided to extend the ongoing lockdown by seven more days, as the country is facing rising COVID-19 cases in recent days. As decided jointly by the Kathmandu, Bhaktapur and Lalitpur districts, in the valley, the lockdown will be…

Peace Monitors Welcome Swearing In Of South Sudan’s Parliament

JUBA, Aug 4 (NNN-SUNA) – South Sudan’s peace monitors, yesterday, welcomed the swearing-in of 595 legislators in both the Upper and Lower Houses, after several delays by the parties to the 2018 revitalised peace deal. The Reconstituted Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (RJMEC) said, in a statement issued in Juba,…