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Experts warn Japanese growing complacent of coronavirus risk
By Rocky Swift TOKYO (Reuters) - Infectious disease experts guiding the Japanese government's response to the coronavirus outbreak sounded the alarm on Tuesday that people are not taking the threat se...
Mar 24, 2020
Britain wakes up to coronavirus lockdown, confusion continues
By Alistair Smout and Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - Britain awoke to a virtual lockdown on Tuesday after Prime Minister Boris Johnson ordered people to stay at home, shops to close and an end to a...
Mar 24, 2020
Action too late? UK’s Gove says people must do everything possible now
LONDON (Reuters) - History would judge whether Britain had acted too slowly to stop the spread of the coronavirus but the important thing now was to follow new restrictions, senior minister Michael Go...
Mar 24, 2020
Laos records first two coronavirus cases: Thai media
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Laos has recorded its first two coronavirus cases, a news report on Thai state-owned media MCOT said on Tuesday, citing the Laos Health Ministry. The two cases include a 28-year-ol...
Mar 24, 2020
China’s IT ministry calls for faster 5G network rollout: government document
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has called for the 5G network to be built faster to minimize the impact of the coronavirus, according to a document ...
Mar 24, 2020
Thailand to declare one-month emergency on March 26: prime minister
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand will be in an emergency mode from March 26 for a month to deal with the coronavirus outbreak, Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha told a news conference on Tuesday. The emerg...
Mar 24, 2020
Toyota, NTT team up on developing smart city platforms
TOKYO (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp have agreed to work together on developing smart cities and will invest 200 billion yen ($1.8 billion) in each other to ceme...
Mar 24, 2020
Taiwan’s coronavirus cases top 200 for first time
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's government on Tuesday announced 20 new cases of the coronavirus, bringing the total to 215. All new cases were imported, with the patients having traveled to countries incl...
Mar 24, 2020
Malaysia steps up coronavirus tests as it braces for ‘worst scenario’
By A. Ananthalakshmi KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia is ramping up coronavirus tests in preparation for the "worst scenario", as it grapples with Southeast Asia's highest number of infections, a hea...
Mar 23, 2020
Thailand reports 106 new coronavirus cases and three deaths
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand has recorded 106 new coronavirus cases and three more deaths, a health official said on Tuesday. The country now has 827 cases and 4 fatalities since the outbreak began. T...
Mar 23, 2020
