The Victorian Multicultural Commission will postpone its Cultural Diversity Week events due to expert advice recommending against gatherings of more than 500 people in response to COVID-19. The Premier’s Gala Dinner scheduled for 21 March 2020 and Victoria’s Multicultural Festival scheduled for 29 March 2020 will be postponed to later in the year.
Cricket Australia has announced this morning that the One Day International game between Australia and New Zealand scheduled on Sunday at the SCG will be played behind closed doors, for television broadcast only.
Based on the expert medical advice of the Australian Health Protection Principal Committee (AHPPC), Commonwealth, State and Territory governments have agreed to provide public advice against holding non-essential, organised public gatherings of more than 500 people from Monday 16th March 2020. A new National Cabinet, made up of the Prime Minister, Premiers and Chief Ministers […]
Even as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeaus wife tested positive for COVID-19 and the country’s markets posted their biggest one-day loss in history on Thursday, a team of Canadian researchers, including an Indian, said they have isolated the virus behind the global pandemic. The isolation of the virus by researchers from Toronto’s Sunnybrook Hospital, the […]
Microsoft has cancelled its flagship developer conference ‘Build 2020′ in-person, scheduled to take place here from May 19-21. The Microsoft aBuild’ will now be a digital-only event this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. New coronavirus cases in Washington State have surged to 457, including 31 deaths. “In light of the health safety recommendations for […]
Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan has posted a video to share his views on coronavirus, with a dash of poetry. The video starts with Big B addressing the worldwide COVID-19 outbreak. He then recites a poem he penned. The gist of the poem pertains to the precautionary measures that people should take in the wake of […]
A Filipino diplomat at the UN has been diagnosed with the coronavirus, according to Stephane Dujarric, the spokesperson for Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. The Philippines Mission informed the UN medical service on Thursday about the diplomat’s infection, Dujarric said. That is the only coronavirus case at the UN headquarters where a staff of about 3,000 work […]
Arsenal head coach Mikel Arteta and Chelsea’s Callum Hudson-Odoi are the latest football personalities who have been diagnosed with coronavirus. In a statement, Arsenal said that they have closed their London Colney training centre after they Arteta tested positive for the novel coronavirus. “This is really disappointing but I took the test after feeling poorly. […]
Hollywood superstar Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson announced that they have tested positive for the novel coronavirus. Hanks and Wilson, both 63, sought medical advice after experiencing symptoms of a cold in Queensland, the BBC quoted the actor as saying in an Instagram post on Thursday. Hanks wrote on Instagram: “We felt a […]
A Kashmiri rights activist at United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Wednesday flayed Pakistan for committing grave human rights violations with its sponsorship of cross-border terrorism. Junaid Qureshi, the son of Kashmiri separatist and 1971 Indian Airlines hijacker Hashim Qureshi, in a general debate at the 43rd session of the UNHRC in Geneva, described […]