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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), is in quarantine after being confirmed as a contact of a person who tested posotive for coronavirus.This photo was taken on 15 October 2020.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), is in quarantine after being confirmed as a contact of a person who tested posotive for coronavirus.This photo was taken on 15 October 2020. Photograph: Martial Trezzini/EPA
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Asian shares bounced off one-month lows on Monday on solid data from China showing factory activity expanded at its fastest pace in a decade, Reuters report.
Oil prices however, have fallen as many Western countries slid back into coronavirus-driven lockdowns.
All major indexes in Asia, except New Zealand, are up today. Australian shares rose 0.4%. Chinese shares are higher with the blue-chip CSI300 rising 0.8% with the country’s vast industrial sector steadily returning to levels seen before the Covid-19 pandemic paralysed huge swathes of the economy.
