Police confirmed on Sunday that they shot dead a 63-year-old man on the Philippine island of Mindanao after refusing to cooperate with coronavirus mandates. The incident occurred in the town of Nasipit in the southern province of Agusan del Norte.
A spokesman for Iran’s health ministry called China’s coronavirus numbers a “bitter joke” in a video media conference on Sunday.
Tens of thousands of people visited a provincial park in southeast China over the weekend, forcing it to close after reaching capacity. The outpouring of visitors comes as Wuhan officials have warned people to stay home amid reports of new coronavirus infections in China.
Health workers screening patients for coronavirus were “manhandled” by a mob of 40-50 Muslim minority group members in southern India on Wednesday, authorities confirmed. The reportedly incident occurred in East Bangalore, the capital of India’s southern Karnataka state.
Panic-buying has erupted across China amid fears of a food shortage due to the Wuhan coronavirus, reports stated on Thursday, indicating that Chinese citizens are ignoring the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) statements urging people not to stockpile food.
A Vietnamese fishing boat with eight crew members on board was sunk after being hit by a Chinese ship near Vietnam’s Paracel Islands, local authorities said on Friday.
Mistrusting the state to provide adequate healthcare services amid the rising threat of the Chinese coronavirus, a Brazilian slum has hired private doctors to treat residents.
The Taliban announced a ceasefire on Thursday in areas of Afghanistan affected by the Chinese coronavirus, allowing medical teams access to provide health services and aid.
Saudia Arabia urged over one million Muslims to halt preparations for the mandatory pilgrimage to Mecca (hajj) on Tuesday. The request has caused some to speculate that the pilgrimage may be canceled this year.
China is forcing Uyghur health workers to treat Wuhan coronavirus patients in northwest China’s Xinjiang province, according to a report by Radio Free Asia (RFA) published on Thursday.
A mob of at least 100 locals threw stones at doctors sent to screen people for the Chinese coronavirus in central India on Wednesday.
Chinese state media reported on Wednesday the national military command responsible for patrols around Taiwan staged a long-endurance, early-warning exercise in March.
The governor of Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital, said on Tuesday that nearly 300 suspected and confirmed victims of the Chinese coronavirus had been buried since the start of March.
A Chinese student who called for Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping to step down in a message posted to social media on Monday has gone missing. On Tuesday, reports suggested he was in police custody for his remarks.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte issued a “shoot to kill” order to police officers on Wednesday for anyone they see violating Chinese coronavirus quarantine orders.
Police in Surat, India, used tear gas to disperse migrant workers defying the coronavirus lockdown on Sunday, as hundreds of thousands of jobless people flee big cities for the countryside.
Buddhist monks in Thailand have recently been spotted wearing custom sanitary masks and shields while collecting alms, in their attempt to protect themselves from the Chinese coronavirus, Thai media reports revealed Tuesday.
In Sihanoukville, a Chinese-funded gambling enclave in Cambodia, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda has convinced expatriates that their investments in the local casino culture.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said medical workers who have contracted Chinese coronavirus while treating patients and died were “lucky” to have died in service to the country, in a national address on Monday night.
Fears the Chinese coronavirus might spread from corpses to nearby populations has prevented the burial of many people in Iraq who have died from the respiratory illness, reports revealed Monday.
Hundreds of migrant workers were forcibly bathed in sodium hypochlorite solution, a disinfectant, after they arrived in the Bareilly district of northern India’s Uttar Pradesh on Sunday.
Authorities in Uganda’s capital, Kampala, arrested nearly 30 people for violating restrictions meant to stop the spread of coronavirus.
A riot broke out at a prison in northeastern Thailand on Sunday after a rumor spread of a Chinese coronavirus outbreak at the facility. On Monday, corrections officials assured the public they had regained control of the prison. However, an
Videos of security forces beating quarantine violators with sticks and batons in India flooded social media this week. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the total shutdown of India for 21 days on Tuesday night in an effort to curb the spread of the Chinese coronavirus in the nation of 1.3 billion people.
Religious leaders have failed to cancel congregational meetings in Ethiopia, despite government orders to limit large gatherings amid the Chinese coronavirus outbreak in the country, alarmed African health officials noted on Thursday.
Iran is capable of helping the American people fight the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, but the Islamic Republic does not require any assistance from the U.S., according to statements by Major General Hossein Salami, head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) on Thursday.
China extracted 861,400 cubic meters of natural gas from methane hydrate, known as “flammable ice,” during a one-month trial production in the South China Sea, Chinese state media reported on Thursday.
Rwandan police shot and killed two people for defying lockdown orders on Wednesday as the nation attempts to contain its coronavirus outbreak.
Vietnam has sent tens of thousands of people to quarantine camps in an effort to stem the spread of the Chinese coronavirus in the country, Reuters revealed on Thursday.
Philippine police arrested hundreds on the island of Luzon for breaking quarantine measures on Wednesday, meant to curb the spread of the Chinese coronavirus in the country.
