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-- 2020-04-18 09:14:23
The number of deaths linked to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) reached 150,000 on Friday, according to a Reuters tally. The first death came in the central Chinese city of Wuhan on Jan. 9. It took 8...
Reuters 2020-04-17 20:23:27
The number of people infected with the coronavirus crossed 22,000 in densely populated South Asia on Friday driven by a rise in cases in India as the tiny Indian Ocean island nation of Maldives locked...
AP 2020-04-17 19:09:47
As the US records the highest number of confirmed coronavirus cases, many states have imposed restrictions on movement to slow down the progress of the virus – a move that did not sit well with...
-- 2020-04-17 16:15:59
Indonesia reported on Friday 407 new coronavirus cases, taking the total number of cases to 5,923 and surpassing the Philippines as the country with the highest number of infections in Southeast Asia....
Reuters 2020-04-17 16:06:53
The purple ink stamped on Iqbal Hussain Siddiqui's hand by Indian health workers was supposed to ensure he stayed home under quarantine. But the 66-year-old Siddiqui, an egg seller in Mumbai's...
-- 2020-04-17 12:28:06
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has stressed the need for more global cooperation to tackle the coronavirus pandemic and voiced support for the WHO after the United States cut its funding. Many wor...
Reuters 2020-04-17 12:14:03
Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque compound will be closed to Muslim worshippers throughout the holy fasting month of Ramadan due to the coronavirus epidemic, Muslim clerics at Islam’s third-hol...
Reuters 2020-04-17 10:06:01
A daughter of famed drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman and several Mexican cartels have been doling out aid packages to help cash-strapped residents ride out the coronavirus pandemic. In...
Reuters 2020-04-16 18:18:27
India's vibrant newspaper industry that reaches tens of millions of readers daily has been ravaged by declining advertising revenues due to a nationwide lockdown to fight the coronavirus, pushing lead...
-- 2020-04-16 17:29:51
China's civil aviation authority has moved to ensure air cargo transport of supplies for the fight against the novel coronavirus outbreak worldwide, reports Xinhua. The Civil Aviation Administration...
-- 2020-04-16 16:45:16
Fearing a convergence of respiratory allergies and spread of the coronavirus pandemic, Kashmir authorities have ordered the felling of tens of thousands of poplar trees that account for nearly a third...
REUTERS 2020-04-16 16:18:00
South Korean health officials are investigating several possible explanations for a small but growing number of recovered coronavirus patients who later test positive for the virus again. Among the m...
Reuters 2020-04-16 15:50:03
Shehu Isah Daiyanu Dumus has run out of cash and says he only has a few handfuls of cassava flour left to eat. The 53-year-old paraplegic man usually sells phone cards. But an extended lockdown to fi...
Reuters 2020-04-16 15:48:57
China’s foreign ministry said on Thursday the World Health Organization (WHO) has said there is no evidence that the coronavirus that has infected more than 2 million people globally was made in...
REUTERS 2020-04-16 15:18:42
US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that data suggested the country had passed the peak on new coronavirus infections, and said he would announce “new guidelines” for reopening t...
REUTERS 2020-04-16 13:55:38
Britain should ask for an extension to its post-Brexit transition period to ease uncertainty at a time when the world economy is being hammered by the coronavirus pandemic, the head of the Internation...
-- 2020-04-16 12:49:04
India has brought charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder against the chief of a Muslim seminary for holding a gathering last month that authorities say led to a big jump in coronavirus i...
-- 2020-04-16 12:01:39
The World Health Organization (WHO) has said it regretted the US decision to halt funding. At a virtual press conference from Geneva on Wednesday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said...
Reuters 2020-04-16 11:30:52
Nearly 700 sailors assigned to the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle’s naval group have tested positive for the coronavirus, the armed forces ministry said on Wednesday. The ministry sa...
Reuters 2020-04-16 10:48:46
China reported on Thursday fewer new coronavirus cases involving travellers arriving from overseas, but locally transmitted infections rose, with the Chinese capital seeing new local cases for the fir...
-- 2020-04-16 10:27:39
Australia’s federal government on Thursday urged state premiers to reopen schools as it considers how to start winding back some other restrictions on movement that have helped slow the spread o...
-- 2020-04-16 09:51:02
The death toll from the coronavirus in the United States surged past 30,000 on Wednesday as governors began cautiously preparing Americans for a post-virus life that would likely include public face c...
Reuters 2020-04-16 09:17:47
Haiti will reopen its key textile industry next week, Prime Minister Joseph Jouthe said on Wednesday, suggesting the impoverished nation had escaped the worst of the global coronavirus pandemic by imp...
REUTERS 2020-04-16 09:13:27
US President Donald Trump has told his administration to temporarily halt funding to the World Health Organization (WHO) in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic caused by the new coronavirus. Here&rsqu...
-- 2020-04-15 17:27:43
India has agreed to sell hydroxychloroquine tablets to Malaysia for use in the treatment of COVID-19 patients, a Malaysian minister said on Wednesday, with New Delhi partially lifting its bar on expor...
-- 2020-04-15 17:15:21
The last medical assistance team started leaving Hubei Province Wednesday as the COVID-19 epidemic in the hard-hit province has been subdued. The medical team consisting of over 180 medical workers f...
Global Times 2020-04-15 16:54:47
A total of 460,000 businesses in China succumbed to the novel coronavirus assault in the first quarter of 2020, among which 57 per cent had been in operation for less than three years, according to a...
-- 2020-04-15 16:11:21
Japan urged its citizens on Wednesday to stay home, as media reports warned that as many as 400,000 of them could die of the coronavirus without urgent action, and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe came under...
AP 2020-04-15 16:05:19
In the six days after top Chinese officials secretly determined they likely were facing a pandemic from a new coronavirus, the city of Wuhan at the epicentre of the disease hosted a mass banquet for t...
Reuters 2020-04-15 15:47:34
New York’s attorney general on Tuesday (US standard time) sued the Trump administration over a federal rule that she says illegally limits paid sick leave for workers affected by the coronavirus...
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