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Sunday, August 17, 2025
TopicCoronavirus world updates

Topic: coronavirus world updates

Gendered curfew to allowing only head of family out — unusual restrictions across the world

Panama, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and several other countries have enforced strange rules to arrest the coronavirus infection.

Chinese can step out now, but their online shopping lists show they don’t plan to

China’s experience shows even after outbreaks are contained, lingering fear is likely to change consumer behaviour for longer than expected.

No touching, no actors – how advertising is changing in the time of isolation

Scenes like shaking hands, walking through crowds are disappearing from advertisements as companies come to grips with public health orders.

If Covid-19 hadn’t caused the stock market crash, something else would have

Shortfalls in revenue & cash flows, caused by shutdowns, have simply exposed vulnerabilities of a structurally unsound economic & financial system.

Japan is counting on its obedient citizens to lock themselves down

The governors of Tokyo and surrounding prefectures asked people who didn’t need to be out to stay home last weekend and many did just that.

China tries to help Europe but its faulty virus test kits aren’t helping

Beijing hopes to win favour through mass deliveries of medical aid to European nations – part of its wider geopolitical ambitions that go back years.

Japan’s likely next PM raises doubts about holding Olympics next year too

Shigeru Ishiba says whether he runs for leader of ruling Liberal Democratic Party next year depends on virus and whether the Olympics can be held.

We’re not at war. Sailors don’t need to die, captain of virus-hit US aircraft carrier pleads

US Navy has rejected the dramatic plea to remove all but a skeleton crew from coronavirus-ravaged carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt.

Donald Trump warns US of tough two weeks ahead, urges people to prepare for hard days

Trump's remarks came after a White House official said the death toll in US could be between 100,000 to 200,000 with the strict implementation of the existing mitigation measures.

Forget the pandemic models, just isolate, test, trace, hope

Best available basis on which to make decisions isn’t what modelers can tell us about coronavirus, but experiential evidence coming out of China, South Korea, Italy, Spain.

On Camera

Postcards from Hyderabad—stories Europeans told about the city

For all their colonial underpinnings, postcards from Hyderabad also inadvertently preserve a trace of local memory: a glimpse of a street, a face, a forgotten name.

Navigating Trump’s tariffs is no child’s play. Indian toymakers are losing out on orders, enquiries

Indian toymakers are now exploring new markets, but they want govt to negotiate a trade deal with US soon, introduce incentives and subsidies to make the industry more competitive.

What is Project Sudarshan Chakra, announced by Modi from ramparts of Red Fort

The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?