The Nigerian government announced on Saturday that “non-Nigerian passport holders and non-residents who visited Brazil, India or Turkey within 14 days preceding travel to Nigeria, shall be denied entry into Nigeria.” The ban is set to take effect on Tuesday
A social media account run by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) mocked India’s deadly coronavirus crisis on Saturday with a post deleted after public outrage in both China and India.
(AFP) — People arriving in Australia from coronavirus-ravaged India could face five years jail as the country strengthens an earlier travel ban, the government announced Saturday, in a bid to prevent the outbreak from spreading to its shores.
All Chinese coronavirus vaccine centers in Mumbai will close for three days starting April 30 due to a shortage of vaccines, municipal government authorities announced Friday.
President Joe Biden plans to restrict travel from India on May 4 over the country’s coronavirus surge, despite describing such bans as “xenophobic” during the 2020 presidential campaign.
Facebook revealed Thursday that it blocked all posts containing the hashtag #ResignModi in India for several hours Wednesday.
Crematoriums in Delhi began using their parking lots for mass funeral pyres in recent days as they operate beyond capacity amid a relentless surge of new Chinese coronavirus cases and deaths across India.
China’s state-run Global Times on Wednesday continued its effort to capitalize on the coronavirus pandemic in India by accusing the United States of selfishness for “sitting on tens of millions of vaccines” instead of sharing them with other nations.
India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) said on Sunday it has asked Facebook, Twitter, and other platforms to remove posts that create “panic” about the coronavirus surge in India by spreading “fake or misleading information.” Opposition politicians and international free speech advocates denounced the action as political censorship by the embattled government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The Chinese government newspaper Global Times followed up criticism of the United States for not offering India aid in fighting the Chinese coronavirus pandemic — a false claim — by asking Tuesday if the aid offered was the product of “overt racism.”
Chinese state media on Sunday slammed the United States as “selfish” and “indifferent” for denying India the raw materials it needs to ramp up vaccine production.
President Joe Biden promised to send aid to help India fight the coronavirus during a Monday call with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
British warships billed as the “largest concentration of maritime and air power to leave the U.K. in a generation” will depart next month.
New Delhi police began providing armed escorts for oxygen tankers this week as they deliver precious supplies of the gas to hospitals across the Indian capital amid a dire oxygen shortage caused by a surging number of new Chinese coronavirus cases in the city.
A plan by Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) would require federal agencies to review the United States’ reliance on foreign countries for pharmaceuticals and medical supplies.
The U.S. State Department is defending Special President Envoy for Climate John Kerry’s trip to China to discuss climate change.
Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) will introduce legislation on Earth Day that would stop the Biden administration from enacting climate regulations until the top world’s polluters outside the United States, namely China, India, and Russia, adhere to the same regulatory standards as America.
Established wedding shops in northern India have been forced to sell cremation items in recent months as the Chinese coronavirus pandemic shifts consumer demand from marriage ceremonies to funerals.
A crematorium in western India’s Gujurat state has been running “so long without a break” during the Chinese coronavirus pandemic that some of the metal parts of its gas and firewood furnaces “have begun to melt,” Reuters news agency reported this week.
Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said Tuesday that India must continue exporting coronavirus vaccines despite mounting infections and vaccine shortages at home because of the need to maintain “global supply chains.”
States across India re-imposed lockdowns Monday to contain a surge in new Chinese coronavirus cases nationwide.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called off a trip to India amid surging coronavirus cases in the country.
Indian Muslims must receive a full set of Chinese coronavirus vaccinations before participating in this year’s Islamic Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the Hajj Committee of India announced Thursday.
India boasted on Tuesday of having exported Chinese coronavirus vaccines to more than 80 countries in recent months, despite New Delhi’s ongoing struggle to adequately vaccinate its domestic population.
Police in the western Indian state of Maharashtra registered a case, local reports noted on Monday, against the owner of a mattress factory in the city of Jalgaon after the facility was found stuffing mattresses with used sanitary masks.
India’s health ministry on Sunday banned the export of the antiviral drug Remdesivir and its active pharmaceutical ingredients after a recent surge in new Chinese coronavirus cases across India caused a “spike in demand” for the drug.
Special Climate Change Envoy John Kerry said action is required to stem its effects and avoid a “mutual suicide pact across the planet.”
U.S. Climate Envoy John Kerry said he was “not confident,” but “hopeful” China would do their part to reduce global carbon emissions.
India is vaccinating more people daily against the Chinese coronavirus than any other nation, the country’s health ministry said on Thursday.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Thursday claimed the United States prevented Iran from buying millions of doses of coronavirus vaccine from India.
It is illegal to drive in Delhi, India, without a mask during the Chinese coronavirus pandemic even if the driver is alone in his or her personal vehicle, the Delhi High Court ruled Wednesday.
New Delhi agreed on Tuesday to produce “additional” Russian military equipment in India during a meeting between Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar in New Delhi.
Hundreds of Maoist militants killed at least 23 Indian security personnel in an ambush on Saturday in Chattisgarh.
China organized the first nationwide homages on Sunday to four soldiers killed fighting Indian troops on the nations’ border in June, the first time the Communist Party had allowed such public mourning over the incident in nearly a year.
China is constructing new villages along its Himalayan border with India in an effort to move the unmarked boundary into Chinese territory, experts warned on Friday, replicating Beijing’s encroachment strategy in the South China Sea.
India has supplied 82 countries with domestically made Chinese coronavirus vaccines as of Thursday since launching a vaccine outreach drive in January.
The Indian crew of the container ship Ever Given — which blocked billions of dollars in trade from passing through the Suez Canal for nearly a week — may face “criminal charges” and “house arrest” after Egyptian officials launched a probe Wednesday into how the ship became lodged in the channel.
Japan announced this weekend it would provide India with $2 billion in loans and grants to fund infrastructure projects, including the improvement of a power supply system in the strategic Andaman and Nicobar Islands, located in the Bay of Bengal.
A report published on Monday by Ember, a U.K-based energy and climate research organization, found that China generated 53% of the world’s coal-fired power in 2020. China was the only G20 nation to significantly increase its use of coal-fired power plants last year, building over three times as much coal capacity as the rest of the world combined.
Thousands of people gathered together in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday to celebrate Holi, the Hindu spring festival of colors, in open defiance of anti-coronavirus mandates such as social distancing and mask-wearing.
