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-- 2020-03-27 14:32:23
Malaysia announced a stimulus package worth 250 billion ringgit ($58.28 billion) on Friday, its second in a month, to help cushion the economic blow from the coronavirus pandemic. The number of confi...
Reuters 2020-03-27 14:22:00
Chinese President Xi Jinping told US President Donald Trump during a phone call on Friday that he would have China’s support in fighting the coronavirus, as the United States faces the prospect...
-- 2020-03-27 12:26:37
South African security forces have begun enforcing a three-week nationwide lockdown in an effort to stem the spread of the coronavirus. All but essential movement is forbidden and both the army and t...
Reuters 2020-03-27 11:46:48
The Japanese government said on Friday there was no need now to declare a state of emergency, after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe the previous day described the coronavirus as a “national crisis&rdq...
-- 2020-03-27 11:30:33
India's western state of Maharashtra will be releasing about 11,000 prisoners to reduce overcrowding in prisons in a bid to curb the risk of coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, state home minister Anil D...
Reuters 2020-03-27 11:25:33
Li Yu is happy she sold six pieces of roasted corn on the day she reopened her stall after travel restrictions were lifted in Jingzhou, but she worries about the future of her business near the city&r...
Reuters 2020-03-27 09:54:25
The number of US coronavirus infections climbed above 82,000 on Thursday (local time), surpassing the national tallies of China and Italy, as New York, New Orleans, and other hot spots faced a surge i...
-- 2020-03-27 09:36:55
Queues formed at supermarkets and stores in Tokyo on Friday as residents in the Japanese capital prepared for a weekend at home after the city’s governor called on them to stay at home to preven...
-- 2020-03-26 19:48:01
The spread of the novel coronavirus has left the vulnerable and marginalised in grave peril as daily wage earners, people displaced by conflict, health workers and prisoners face huge risks in the fac...
-- 2020-03-26 19:07:20
Russian President Vladimir Putin declared on Wednesday that all Russians would receive paid leave next week as part of measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19. All necessary institutions and estab...
Xinhua 2020-03-26 17:52:18
South Sudan has imposed a 30-day night-time curfew as part of measures aimed at forestalling the spread of COVID-19 into the east African country. President Salva Kiir issued an executive order Tuesd...
-- 2020-03-26 16:47:08
Three more people infected with coronavirus died overnight in India as the government sought on Thursday to improve basic services to 1.3 billion people locked indoors to slow the spread of the diseas...
-- 2020-03-26 15:54:52
Global food security concerns are mounting with around a fifth of the world's population already under lockdown to fight the widening coronavirus pandemic that has infected over 470,000 people in mo...
-- 2020-03-26 15:19:07
Steven Dick, deputy head of mission at the British Embassy in Budapest, has died after contracting coronavirus, the Foreign Office said on Wednesday, reports Reuters. The 37-year-old diplomat died i...
REUTERS 2020-03-26 14:56:48
Smoking can make people more susceptible to serious complications from a coronavirus infection, the European Union agency for disease control said on Wednesday, citing scientific studies, although ava...
-- 2020-03-26 14:52:59
Iran started an intercity travel ban on Thursday, an Iranian official said in a televised news conference, amid fears of a second wave of coronavirus infections in the Middle East’s worst-hit co...
-- 2020-03-26 11:57:57
Indonesia has a significant deficit in hospital beds, medical staff and intensive care facilities as health experts warn that it is primed to become a new epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic, accord...
-- 2020-03-26 10:36:52
Mainland China reported a second consecutive day of no new local coronavirus infections as the epicentre of the epidemic Hubei province opened its borders, but imported cases rose as Beijing ramped up...
REUTERS 2020-03-26 10:23:07
The US Senate on Wednesday unanimously backed a $2.0 trillion bill aimed at helping unemployed workers and industries hurt by the coronavirus epidemic, as well as providing billions of dollars to buy...
Reuters 2020-03-26 10:18:13
Gunmen and suicide bombers raided a Sikh religious complex in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Wednesday, killing 25 people before security forces killed all of the attackers, the government said. The...
Reuters 2020-03-26 10:04:47
Mexico’s federal government will suspend all non-essential activities beginning on Thursday, Mexico’s deputy health minister Hugo Lopez-Gatell told reporters. Mexico registered 475 corona...
Reuters 2020-03-26 09:56:05
An Australian man accused of killing 51 Muslim worshippers in New Zealand’s worst mass shooting changed his plea to guilty in a surprise move on Thursday. Brenton Tarrant, who appeared by video...
-- 2020-03-26 09:54:11
Spain’s death toll from the coronavirus has surpassed the official figure from China, becoming the second highest in the world. The number of deaths rose by 738 in 24 hours - a daily record - t...
-- 2020-03-25 18:04:39
India is likely to agree an economic stimulus package of more than 1.5 trillion rupees ($19.6 billion) to fight a downturn in the country that is currently locked down to stem the spread of coronaviru...
-- 2020-03-25 17:23:07
Mali reported on Wednesday its first two cases of coronavirus, the government said in a statement. he two patients are Malian nationals, a 49 year-old woman from Bamako and a 62 year-old man living i...
-- 2020-03-25 17:22:36
Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne, has tested positive for coronavirus, Clarence House has announced. The Prince of Wales, 71, is displaying mild symptoms "but otherwise remains in good...
-- 2020-03-25 16:35:09
The United Kingdom has announced to extend visas for the foreign nationals, who are unable to return home from Britain until May 31 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. British Home Secretary Priti Patel on...
-- 2020-03-25 14:19:12
Boko Haram militants killed 92 Chadian soldiers and wounded 47 more in the deadliest attack ever on the country’s military, President Idriss Deby said late on Tuesday. The soldiers were attacke...
REUTERS 2020-03-25 14:13:51
Fatalities in Italy from coronavirus have surged in the last 24 hours, the Civil Protection Agency said on Tuesday, dashing hopes the epidemic in the world’s worst hit country was easing after m...
REUTERS 2020-03-25 13:19:53
US senators and Trump administration officials have reached an agreement on a massive economic stimulus bill to alleviate the economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak, the negotiators said on Wedne...
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