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-- 2020-03-29 17:11:08
Spain's health ministry has announced 838 new coronavirus deaths, marking the country's highest daily jump in fatalities and bringing its total to 6,528, according to Al Jazeera and Reuters. Second o...
-- 2020-03-29 16:26:07
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked the nation's poor for forgiveness on Sunday, as the economic and human toll from his 21-day nationwide lockdown deepens and criticism mounts about a lack of a...
REUTERS 2020-03-29 15:47:28
When Satyaki Mitra’s father developed a mild fever in mid-March, the graduate student in Philadelphia wasn’t especially worried. He told his 57-year-old father, living in the eastern India...
-- 2020-03-29 14:17:47
Saudi Arabia shut down entry and exit into the Jeddah governorate and brought forward a curfew there to begin at 3 pm local time (1200 GMT), state news agency SPA said on Sunday. The curfew in Jeddah...
Reuters 2020-03-29 13:35:00
North Korea fired what appeared to be two short-range ballistic missiles into the ocean off its east coast on Sunday, the latest in an unprecedented flurry of launches that South Korea decried as &ldq...
-- 2020-03-29 13:05:05
India said on Saturday it was planning to turn some railway coaches into isolation wards for patients with coronavirus, as authorities scramble to prepare the country’s health infrastructure for...
-- 2020-03-29 12:15:44
In the past 24 hours in Turkey, 16 more people lost their lives due to COVID-19, raising the death toll to 108, Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on Saturday night. The total number of nove...
-- 2020-03-29 10:06:36
President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he would issue a travel warning for the hard-hit New York area to limit the spread of the coronavirus, backing off from an earlier suggestion that he might...
REUTERS 2020-03-29 09:02:32
The death toll from an outbreak of coronavirus in Italy barrelled past 10,000 on Saturday, a figure that made an extension of a national lockdown almost certain. Officials said 889 more people died i...
Reuters 2020-03-28 20:37:52
India said on Saturday it was planning to turn some railway coaches into isolation wards for patients with coronavirus, as authorities scramble to prepare the country's health infrastructure for an ex...
-- 2020-03-28 19:04:02
Police fired tear gas at a crowd of Kenyan ferry commuters as the country’s first day of a coronavirus curfew slid into chaos. Elsewhere, officers were captured in mobile phone footage whacking...
AP 2020-03-28 18:39:20
Indian authorities sent a fleet of buses to the outskirts of the capital on Saturday to meet an exodus of migrant workers desperately trying to reach their home villages during the world's largest cor...
-- 2020-03-28 18:09:37
Through decades of conflict, Dr Haidar Hantoush has watched wounded soldiers and civilians flood into Iraq's emergency wards. But he's never been so scared. "Violence we can just about handle. Patien...
-- 2020-03-28 16:08:02
Russia is beginning what Vladimir Putin called a "non-working week", to try to slow the spread of the coronavirus, reports BBC. The government is urging people to stay at home, though mixed messagi...
-- 2020-03-28 15:52:36
The city in China where the coronavirus pandemic began, Wuhan, has partially re-opened after more than two months of isolation, reports BBC. Crowds of passengers were pictured arriving at Wuhan train...
Reuters 2020-03-28 15:50:33
Germany will not ease measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus before at least April 20, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s chief of staff told a German newspaper. “We are not talking about...
REUTERS 2020-03-28 15:34:57
The US House of Representatives on Friday approved a $2.2 trillion aid package - the largest in history - to help cope with the economic downturn inflicted by the intensifying coronavirus pandemic, an...
-- 2020-03-28 15:34:51
British accounting firm KPMG's Chairman Bill Michael has tested positive for the coronavirus, a spokesman for the company said late on Friday, reports Reuters. Britain has so far recorded more than...
-- 2020-03-28 15:23:01
Tokyo has confirmed more than 50 new coronavirus infections, a record daily increase, public broadcaster NHK reported on Saturday as the governor of Japan’s capital urged citizens to stay indoor...
REUTERS 2020-03-28 14:29:53
Italy's recorded 919 deaths from coronavirus on Friday, the highest daily toll anywhere in the world, while the number of confirmed cases eclipsed the total in China where the virus first emerged. It...
-- 2020-03-28 14:20:50
Turkey halted all intercity trains and limited domestic flights on Saturday as part of measures to contain a fast-growing coronavirus outbreak, as the number of cases jumped by a third in a day to 5,6...
-- 2020-03-28 12:02:58
The director of one of Haiti’s top hospitals was kidnapped on Friday (local time), prompting staff to refuse to take in new patients in protest as the impoverished country battles an outbreak of...
Reuters 2020-03-28 10:56:28
Doctors and nurses on the front lines of the US coronavirus crisis pleaded on Friday (local time) for more protective gear and equipment to treat waves of patients expected to overwhelm hospitals as t...
-- 2020-03-28 10:31:10
China on Saturday reported no locally transmitted coronavirus infections for the previous day and a small reduction in new cases involving travellers from overseas, as new restrictions on the entry of...
-- 2020-03-28 10:19:38
Mexico’s health ministry on Friday said it had registered 717 cases of coronavirus in the country, up from 585 the day before. The ministry also said there had been 12 deaths overall from the v...
BBC 2020-03-27 21:00:34
China has announced a temporary ban on all foreign visitors, even if they have visas or residence permits. The country is also limiting Chinese and foreign airlines to one flight per week, and flight...
-- 2020-03-27 19:48:56
Canada has opposed a US proposal to deploy troops along their undefended border to help fight the spread of the coronavirus, saying the idea was unnecessary and would damage relations. The uncompromi...
-- 2020-03-27 17:33:08
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has tested positive for coronavirus and is self-isolating but will still lead the government's response to the outbreak, reports Reuters. "Over the last 24 hours...
-- 2020-03-27 16:00:25
The US now has more confirmed cases of coronavirus than any other country, with more than 85,500 positive tests, reports BBC. According to the latest figures collated by Johns Hopkins University, th...
-- 2020-03-27 15:34:11
As the coronavirus spread across Asia in February, Indian manufacturers of personal protective equipment contacted the health ministry urging the government to stock up, reports Reuters. They got no...
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