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REUTERS 2020-05-08 10:32:45
Black people and men of Bangladeshi and Pakistani origin are nearly twice as likely to die from the COVID-19 disease than whites, even when adjusting data for deprivation, a new British report said on...
-- 2020-05-07 22:59:21
Japan on Thursday approved Gilead Sciences Inc's remdesivir as a treatment for COVID-19, making it the country's first officially authorised drug to tackle the coronavirus disease, reports Reuters.&nb...
-- 2020-05-07 13:49:07
South Korean health authorities raised new concerns about the novel coronavirus after reporting last month that dozens of patients who had recovered from the illness later tested positive again. The...
-- 2020-05-07 13:39:25
Myanmar authorities brought back 38 Myanmar nationals from Bangladesh and 135 from Thailand to home by a relief flight on Wednesday, state-run media reported Thursday. In order to retrieve the Myanma...
REUTERS 2020-05-07 12:04:42
The number of coronavirus infections rose to 52,952 in India, up by 3,561 over the previous day, the health ministry said on Thursday, with no signs of abating despite a strict weeks-long lockdown in...
-- 2020-05-07 11:46:44
China on Thursday declared the whole country now at low virus risk as its new cases fall to near zero and no new deaths have been reported from COVID-19 in more than three weeks. The last place downg...
-- 2020-05-07 11:42:28
US President Donald Trump has described the coronavirus pandemic as the "worst attack" ever on the United States, pointing the finger at China. Mr Trump said the outbreak had hit the US harder than t...
-- 2020-05-07 10:41:31
At least 47 residents and three workers have been infected with coronavirus at a retirement home in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon, authorities said on Wednesday (local time), in one of the...
-- 2020-05-07 10:12:16
At least six people are dead after a chemical gas leakage at an LG Polymers facility located near Visakhapatnam in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, a local government official said on Thur...
-- 2020-05-06 18:03:04
China’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday tariffs should not be used as a weapon, after US President Donald Trump threatened new tariffs last week as a retaliatory measure over Beijing’s...
FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-05-06 14:39:17
Three UN humanitarian agencies including the UNHCR, IOM and UNODC urged the regional countries to ensure protection for the migrants at sea. In a joint statement issued on Wednesday, they expressed d...
-- 2020-05-06 14:01:54
The number of new coronavirus cases in Russia rose by 10,559 over the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide tally to 165,929, the coronavirus crisis response centre said on Wednesday. It was the fou...
-- 2020-05-06 11:35:32
There are no signs North Korean leader Kim Jong Un received heart surgery when he disappeared from state media for three weeks, but he reduced public activity due to coronavirus concerns, Yonhap news...
Reuters 2020-05-06 10:34:07
Without wearing a face-covering himself, US President Donald Trump toured a new medical mask factory in Arizona on Tuesday (local time), taking a rare trip out of Washington to visit a state he hopes...
REUTERS 2020-05-06 09:48:40
The ousted director of a US agency responsible for developing drugs to fight the coronavirus pandemic filed a whistleblower's complaint on Tuesday accusing President Donald Trump's administration of r...
-- 2020-05-06 09:48:32
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday urged China to be transparent about the origins of the COVID-19 outbreak that has killed more than a quarter of a million people since it started in the Chinese ci...
-- 2020-05-05 21:45:17
The story of India’s crackdown on Kashmir last August was difficult to show to the world. The unprecedented lockdown included a sweeping curfew and shutdowns of phone and internet service. But...
-- 2020-05-05 19:46:21
Israel has isolated a key coronavirus antibody at its main biological research laboratory, the Israeli defence minister said on Monday, calling the step a "significant breakthrough" toward a possible...
Reuters 2020-05-05 17:04:58
Britain has overtaken Italy to report the highest official death toll from coronavirus in Europe with more than 32,000 deaths, figures released on Tuesday showed. The high death toll could increase p...
-- 2020-05-05 17:02:38
Russian President Vladimir Putin has awarded Kim Jong Un a commemorative war medal marking the 75th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany, the Russian embassy in Pyongyang said Tuesday. The me...
-- 2020-05-05 13:48:00
Officials in India’s capital imposed a special tax of 70 per cent on retail liquor purchases from Tuesday, to deter large gatherings at stores as authorities ease a six-week lockdown imposed to...
-- 2020-05-05 12:14:28
US author Colson Whitehead has become only the fourth writer ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction twice. The African-American author was honoured for The Nickel Boys, which chronicles the abuse...
-- 2020-05-05 11:00:43
Niger’s Labor and Employment Minister Mohamed Ben Omar died from the novel coronavirus, public TV channel Tele Sahel has announced. Omar’s Social Democratic Party (PSD) announced that he...
Reuters 2020-05-05 10:54:19
Three Indian soldiers were killed in a gunbattle with militants in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir on Monday, a day after a similar incident in which five were killed. Juniad Khan, a senior...
Reuters 2020-05-05 09:38:55
Global coronavirus deaths rose past a quarter of a million on Monday after infections topped 3.5 million, a Reuters tally of official government data showed, even as several countries began easing loc...
-- 2020-05-04 21:05:26
Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has announced to extend the country’s national state of emergency until May 31. Abe will consider lifting the state of emergency without waiting for its...
Reuters 2020-05-04 20:33:15
World leaders launched a pledging "marathon" on Monday - without the United States - to raise at least 7.5 billion euros ($8.2 billion) for research into a possible vaccine and treatments for the coro...
Xinhua 2020-05-04 19:55:31
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced an allotment of 240 million Canadian dollars (about US$168 million) on Sunday for moving mental health and primary care services online during the COVI...
AP 2020-05-04 16:26:48
Hundreds of people are rolling up their sleeves in countries across the world to be injected with experimental vaccines that might stop COVID-19, spurring hope — maybe unrealistic — that a...
Reuters 2020-05-04 14:07:32
China has questions to answer over the information it shared about the novel coronavirus outbreak but a post mortem over its role should come later, Britain’s defence minister said on Monday. A...
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