Month: April 2020

This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them.Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. KARACHI, Pakistan, July 10— Once Karachi was the cleanest city in the East, with tidy streets. At midday the British drove ‐to beach huts for a swim in the cool Arabian Sea. The…

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More than 20 cities across mainland China have been overloaded with medical waste, with Wuhan, the centre of the Covid-19 outbreak, producing up to six times more medical waste than usual, authorities said. Medical waste treatment facilities in 28 other cities are working at full load, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment told a press conference on Wednesday, without specifying what the other cities were. Hospitals in Wuhan, home to 11 million people and 80 per cent of those who died from Covid-19, produced more than 240 tonnes of medical…

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