As many ten foreign nationals were asked to return home. This was advised by the Batam Port Health Office due to they had high body temperature upon arrival at the international airport in the city. The authorities decided to ask them to return home to avoid the spread of coronavirus or COVID-19. The policy was adopted after so many countries …

A coronavirus outbreak has weighed on the transport and tourism sectors in Japan, including bullet trains, with fears about infection making people reluctant to venture outdoors or share confined spaces with others for long hours. The number of passengers between Feb 1 and 19 of the Shinkansen Line connecting Tokyo and Osaka fell 8% from a year earlier, its operator …

Twitter staff across the world were asked to work from home starting Monday in an effort to stop the spread of the deadly new coronavirus epidemic. The outbreak has spread across the world since emerging in central China late last year, killing more than 3,100 people, infecting over 90,000, and prompting a wave of travel restrictions. The social media platform’s …

Illegal workers returning home from South Korea to escape the Covid-19 epidemic are being put into voluntary self-quarantine because there is no law requiring they be quarantined, Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon said on Tuesday. On Monday, Suwanchai Wattanayingcharoenchai, director-general of the Disease Control Department, said the Public Health Ministry was considering whether to apply the same measures as applied …

Malaysia’s new Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin has pledged to fight corruption and strengthen governance, saying he is no traitor but stepped in to save the country from political turmoil. Muhyiddin, 72, was named prime minister on Saturday by the country’s monarch after a weeklong struggle for power following Mahathir Mohamad’s sudden resignation amid bickering in his former coalition. The new …

Public complaints grew louder on Monday over the continuing lack of masks on the back of heightened concerns over the spread of Covid-19, which claimed the life of the 35-year-old man on Saturday night — the first reported death from the virus in the country. People are crying foul over the shortage of masks amid the novel coronavirus outbreak, triggered by …

Six schools in Leyte have been damaged because of the 5.5 magnitude earthquake that hit the province on Monday, a TV channel said Tuesday. Cabul-An Elementary School, Don Mariano Memorial School, San Joaquin Elementary School, Libertad National High School and Capoocan Pinamopoan National High School, Leyte sustained partial damage. The study said a window grill was removed at Pinamopoan National …

South Korean health authorities said a religious sect leader tested negative for coronavirus on Tuesday after being taken to a “drive-through” test site late Monday in the midst of criticism over how his church became the outbreak’s nucleus. Lee Man-hee, who created the Shincheonji Church of Jesus and headed it, apologised on Monday and called the outbreak a “great calamity,” …

The fired security guard’s security agency involved in Monday’s hour-long incident of hostage-taking in Greenhills, San Juan could lose his operating license. Interviewed by Police Brigadier General Bernard Banac on Unang Balita, Philippine National Police (PNP) spokesperson, the Supervisory Office on Security and Investigation Agencies (SOSIA) told the agency. Paray took dozens of V-Mall workers hostage on Monday to vent …

On Monday, Manila Mayor Isko Moreno approved an ordinance to set up a cemetery for Muslims exclusively in the country’s capital. The 2,400-square-meter cemetery will be located inside the Manila South Cemetery, Moreno said in a Facebook video message. A cultural hall measuring 56 square meters will also be installed inside the Muslim cemetery. Moreno said it was appropriating a …