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Pakistan to ease lockdown amid COVID-19 05 May 2020 - 12:50 pm
Volunteers spray disinfectant from a vehicle while sanitising a residential area along a road amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Karachi, Pakistan May 4, 2020. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro
Thailand may impose a two-hour limit on shopping mall visits 05 May 2020 - 12:28 pm
A woman wearing a protective face mask enters a taxi in Chinatown, after the government started opening some restaurants outside shopping malls, parks, and barbershops during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Bangkok, Thailand, May 3, 2020. R
India embarks on 'massive' coronavirus repatriation 05 May 2020 - 12:13 pm
Stranded migrant workers sit in a waiting hall before registering with police officials for a movement pass to be able to return to their hometowns after the government eased a nationwide lockdown imposed as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coron
China to launch new spacecraft as it eyes moon trip 05 May 2020 - 12:09 pm
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Australia, New Zealand work to open borders to each other 05 May 2020 - 10:35 am
A handful of tourists stand atop the mostly deserted steps of the Sydney Opera House, where scheduled public performances have been cancelled due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Sydney, Australia, March 18, 2020. REUTERS/Loren Elliott/File Photo
Bangkok reopens with stylists in scrubs, plastic screens between diners 04 May 2020 - 05:00 pm
Women are seen at a Taiwanese hot pot style restaurant that reopened after the easing of restrictions with the implementation of a plastic barrier and social distancing measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Bangkok, Thail
Stranded Indians abroad to be brought home from May 7: Govt 04 May 2020 - 04:26 pm
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Police clash with migrant workers as India eases coronavirus curbs 04 May 2020 - 01:04 pm
Police personnel register migrant workers to send them back to their hometowns during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, on the outskirts of Hyderabad on May 4, 2020. / AFP / NOAH SEELAM
Japan’s Abe extends emergency through May in bid to slow virus 04 May 2020 - 12:42 pm
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe puts off his protective face mask as he speaks to media on Japan's response to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak at his official residence in Tokyo, Japan, May 1, 2020, in this photo taken by Kyodo.
Bangladesh coronavirus cases exceed 10,000 04 May 2020 - 12:23 pm
Women work in a garment factory, as factories reopened after the government has eased the restrictions amid concerns over coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Dhaka, Bangladesh, May 3, 2020. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain
Japan extends virus state of emergency until May 31 04 May 2020 - 12:07 pm
TOPSHOT - People walk past shops in a residential area in Tokyo on May 4, 2020. / AFP / CHARLY TRIBALLEAU
Wearing masks, South Korean students to go back to school 04 May 2020 - 11:36 am
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Japanese ICU doctor expects long battle against coronavirus 04 May 2020 - 10:36 am
Municipal employees patrol a street asking people to stay home amid the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak in Tokyo on May 4, 2020. AFP / CHARLY TRIBALLEAU
Rohingya survivors tell of misery and death at sea; hundreds still adrift 03 May 2020 - 08:08 pm
In this picture taken on May 2, 2020, Rohingya refugees stranded at sea are seen on a boat near the coast of Cox's Bazar. Dozens of Rohingya refugees believed to have come from two boats stranded at sea for weeks as they tried to reach Malaysia landed on
Indian bank bad debt could double after coronavirus crisis: sources 03 May 2020 - 05:55 pm
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Shots fired from NKorea believed to be 'accidental': Pompeo 03 May 2020 - 05:41 pm
(FILES) In this file photo US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pauses while speaking at a news conference at the State Department on April 29, 2020, in Washington, DC. AFP / POOL / Andrew Harnik
'Once Upon a Virus': China mocks U.S. coronavirus response in Lego-like animation 03 May 2020 - 02:11 pm
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S.Korea says Kim Jong Un did not have surgery, as two Koreas exchange gunfire 03 May 2020 - 01:27 pm
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends the completion of a fertiliser plant, in a region north of the capital, Pyongyang, in this image released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on May 2, 2020. KCNA/via REUTERS