Shanghai announced a gradual reopening from Monday of businesses, though it remains unclear when the millions of people still locked down in China’s economic capital will finally be allowed out of their homes.
Amid the recent rise in Covid-19 infections, President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday ordered barangay captains to “restrain” unvaccinated individuals from leaving their homes.
More than a thousand homes were damaged and some 5,000 people have been evacuated after flooding caused by heavy rains in North Korea, the country’s state broadcaster reported, with swathes of farmland also inundated by the deluge.
The earthquake that hit Mexico on September 19 did not discriminate in its destruction, leveling homes in rich and poor neighborhoods alike.
