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-- 2020-04-26 21:38:04
Saudi Arabia eased curfews on Sunday across the country but kept 24-hour lockdown in place in the city of Mecca and neighbourhoods previously put in isolation to curb the spread of the new coronavirus...
Reuters 2020-04-26 21:28:09
Iran plans to reopen mosques in parts of the country that have been consistently free of the coronavirus outbreak as restrictions on Iranians gradually ease, President Hassan Rouhani said on Sunday....
-- 2020-04-26 20:05:22
An Indian woman was allegedly gang raped in a school in the desert state of Rajasthan where she had been quarantined for a night by the police amid the nationwide coronavirus lockdown, a police offici...
-- 2020-04-26 19:54:26
Afghan authorities are struggling to implement lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus in a province bordering Iran where the outbreak is widening due to an influx of Afghan returnees and me...
-- 2020-04-26 17:53:47
The US state of New York, the epicentre of the country's Covid-19 outbreak, will allow pharmacies to carry out tests for the virus, the governor says. Andrew Cuomo said some 5,000 pharmacies would be...
-- 2020-04-26 16:58:56
The Chinese city of Wuhan, where the global coronavirus pandemic began, now has no remaining cases in its hospitals, a health official told reporters on Sunday. The novel coronavirus is believed to h...
Reuters 2020-04-26 13:26:08
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will be back at work on Monday, a Downing Street spokeswoman confirmed on Saturday, after having recovered from a case of coronavirus that sent him to intensive ca...
-- 2020-04-26 13:09:37
Singapore registered 931 new coronavirus infections, its health ministry said on Sunday, taking the city-state’s total number of COVID-19 cases to 13,624. The vast majority of the new cases are...
REUTERS 2020-04-26 11:32:56
Many Americans flocked to beaches on Saturday as one Florida county expanded access and California experienced a heat wave, even as new coronavirus cases hit a record high in the United States the day...
-- 2020-04-26 11:03:31
A special train possibly belonging to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was spotted this week at a resort town in the country, according to satellite images reviewed by a Washington-based North Korea mo...
Reuters 2020-04-26 09:51:05
Argentina will extend a mandatory nationwide quarantine period until May 10 in a bid to combat the advance of the coronavirus, President Alberto Fernandez said on Saturday (local time). The governmen...
REUTERS 2020-04-26 09:35:06
Global deaths linked to the coronavirus passed 200,000 on Saturday, while confirmed cases of the virus are expected to hit 3.0 million in coming days, according to a Reuters tally. More than half of...
-- 2020-04-25 21:32:00
The United States will not take part in the launching of a global initiative on Friday to speed the development, production and distribution of drugs and vaccines against COVID-19, a spokesman for the...
Xinhua 2020-04-25 18:14:00
US President Donald Trump on Friday signed into law a $484 billion relief package to boost funding for small businesses, hospitals and virus testing, as the country grapples with COVID-19 public healt...
FE ONLINE DESK 2020-04-25 15:03:32
FSUE Atomflot, a subsidiary of Rostaom State Corporation of Russia, has signed a contract with a Russian shipbuilder Zvezda for construction of the nuclear icebreaker -Leader. FSUE Atomflot Director...
-- 2020-04-25 14:21:24
Britain could hit the grim milestone of 20,000 COVID-19 deaths later on Saturday, when the daily count is added to the current toll of 19,506 people who tested positive for the new coronavirus and die...
-- 2020-04-25 10:16:21
Retail businesses in the US state of Texas reopened Friday, for the first time in weeks, as a slow reopening process starts amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. According to the order issued by...
-- 2020-04-25 09:39:11
With the US coronavirus death toll topping 51,000 and nearly one in six workers out of a job, Georgia, Oklahoma and several other states took tentative steps at reopening businesses on Friday, despite...
-- 2020-04-24 20:40:49
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Friday said she was alarmed by restrictive measures imposed by several states against the independent media, as well as the arrest and intimi...
-- 2020-04-24 19:45:35
Muslims worldwide began Ramadan on Friday and Saturday with dawn-to-dusk fasting, but many will have to forgo the communal prayers and family gatherings that make the holy month special, as authoritie...
Xinhua 2020-04-24 18:52:44
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Thursday to allot additional 1.1 billion Canadian dollars (about 782 million U.S. dollars) for national medical research against the COVID-19. "The...
Xinhua 2020-04-24 18:21:21
At a time when the world economy is plagued by the coronavirus pandemic, policymakers across the globe are faced with the same dilemma: how to get the economy back on track amid containment of the vir...
REUTERS 2020-04-24 15:34:29
Parts of India have recorded dramatic falls in mortality rates after a nationwide lockdown was imposed to fight the new coronavirus, suggesting there has not been an undetected surge in virus-related...
-- 2020-04-24 14:46:25
South Asia’s coronavirus infections have crossed 37,000, with more than half in India, official data showed on Thursday, complicating the task of governments looking to scale back lockdowns that...
BBC 2020-04-24 13:06:15
The first human trial in Europe of a coronavirus vaccine has begun in Oxford. Two volunteers were injected, the first of more than 800 people recruited for the study. Half will receive the COVID-19...
-- 2020-04-24 11:03:59
The US House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a $484 billion coronavirus relief bill on Thursday, funding small businesses and hospitals and pushing the total spending response to the cris...
-- 2020-04-24 10:03:39
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the COVID-19 pandemic shows the need to overhaul the World Health Organization (WHO), warning that Washington may never restore WHO funding and could even work t...
-- 2020-04-23 21:01:29
Two nurses who were singled out for praise by Boris Johnson for their care while he was in hospital with the coronavirus said the British prime minister was treated like any other patient, reports Reu...
REUTERS 2020-04-23 15:06:53
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Thursday the coronavirus could give some countries an excuse to adopt repressive measures for reasons unrelated to the pandemic as he warned that the outb...
-- 2020-04-23 14:02:58
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that will temporarily stop certain foreigners from receiving green cards. It is one in a series of steps by the president to use the coronavirus p...
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