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-- 2020-03-09 11:59:35
The death toll from the viral outbreak Coronavirus that began in China now has climbed to 3,830. It has infected 110,071people globally, according to information of worldometer. Besides...
-- 2020-03-09 11:50:27
Japan is set this week to revise a law allowing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to declare a formal state of emergency over the coronavirus, if needed, as Abe faces persistent criticism for his handling of...
-- 2020-03-09 10:27:34
Saudi Arabia suspended travel to nine countries for its citizens and residents amid coronavirus fears and suspended the entry of people from those countries or anyone who has been there in the past 14...
-- 2020-03-08 13:58:17
The Maldives on Saturday reported its first two confirmed cases of new coronavirus, and placed two of its island resorts under lockdown, as authorities conducted further tests to try to limit the spre...
-- 2020-03-08 11:52:01
Four people have died in the collapse of a hotel in the Chinese city of Quanzhou, the Ministry of Emergency Management said on Sunday, after state media said the place was being used to quarantine ind...
Reuters 2020-03-08 10:40:05
Two more people succumbed to the novel coronavirus in Washington state, officials said on Saturday (local time), bringing the nationwide toll to 19, while the number of confirmed cases in New York ros...
AP 2020-03-08 10:39:31
Italy’s prime minister announced a sweeping coronavirus quarantine early Sunday, imposing restrictions on the movement of about a quarter of the country’s population in a bid to contain a...
-- 2020-03-07 22:02:07
A hotel building in south-eastern China's Quanzhou city collapsed Saturday night, according to the city government statement. Several state media, including People’s Daily, confirmed the hotel h...
-- 2020-03-07 19:24:13
An Iranian lawmaker has died from coronavirus, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Saturday. This is just another sign the disease is spreading within state institutions. Iran is one of...
-- 2020-03-07 17:44:13
Iran's Health Ministry said Saturday the death toll from the virus climbed to 145 while more than 1,000 infections were confirmed overnight totaling some 5,823 cases nationwide. Some 21 new deaths we...
-- 2020-03-07 16:48:33
The United Kingdom is expected to abolish the so-called tampon tax at the end of 2020, as the Brexit transition period comes to a close. Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak is planning to announc...
-- 2020-03-07 15:24:01
South Korea’s coronavirus cases rose to 6,767 on Saturday, up by 174 from late Friday, with more than 60 per cent of the total cases linked to a secretive church at the centre of the country&rsq...
REUTERS 2020-03-07 15:02:06
About a quarter of China’s new confirmed cases and almost all of those outside the epidemic’s epicentre in Wuhan originated outside the country on Friday, according to official data. Most...
-- 2020-03-07 15:01:37
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has reported 15 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 45, the Ministry of Health and Prevention said on Saturday. The minis...
-- 2020-03-07 12:30:01
Mexican authorities on Friday said they have identified a sixth person infected with coronavirus, a 71 year-old man in the State of Mexico who recently traveled to northern Italy. Deputy Health Minis...
-- 2020-03-07 11:39:34
Three senior members of Saudi Arabia's royal family, including the king's brother, have been arrested for unexplained reasons, US media report. Two of the men were among the kingdom's most influentia...
REUTERS 2020-03-07 10:55:21
Twenty-one people aboard a cruise ship that was barred from docking in San Francisco have tested positive for coronavirus, US officials said on Friday, adding to the more than 100,000 cases of the fas...
-- 2020-03-06 17:37:01
Gunmen attacked a ceremony in Kabul on Friday, killing at least 27 people in the first major attack on the Afghan capital since the United States reached an agreement with the Taliban to withdraw US t...
AP 2020-03-06 15:30:30
The number of people infected with the new virus charged toward 100,000 Friday, with the global scare upending routines, threatening livelihoods and prompting quarantines in its spread. Asian shares...
-- 2020-03-06 14:42:36
Bhutan said on Friday it had banned the entry of tourists for two weeks after it confirmed its first case of the coronavirus, in a tourist who arrived from neighbouring India. The tiny Himalayan king...
REUTERS 2020-03-06 12:41:12
The death toll from an outbreak of coronavirus in Italy has risen by 41 over the past 24 hours to 148, the Civil Protection Agency said on Thursday, with the contagion in Europe's worst-hit country sh...
Reuters 2020-03-05 13:31:05
Italy closed all schools and universities and took other emergency measures on Wednesday to try to slow the spread of the coronavirus in Europe’s worst-hit country as the death toll and number o...
REUTERS 2020-03-05 13:12:49
The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, citing growing concerns about the fast-spreading coronavirus, on Tuesday said they will adopt a “virtual format” for their Spring Meetin...
REUTERS 2020-03-05 12:39:35
Former UN secretary-general Javier Perez de Cuellar, a Peruvian diplomat who played a crucial role in ending the Iran-Iraq war of 1980 to 1988, died on Wednesday at his home in Lima aged 100. Perez d...
REUTERS 2020-03-05 11:58:31
South Korea declared a “special care zone” on Thursday around a second city hit hard by the coronavirus and the US military confirmed two new cases among relatives of its troops in the cou...
Reuters 2020-03-05 11:17:37
The US death toll from coronavirus infections rose to 11 on Wednesday as new cases emerged around New York City and Los Angeles, while Seattle-area health officials discouraged social gatherings amid...
Reuters 2020-03-05 11:12:11
India lifted some restrictions on internet access in Kashmir on Wednesday, including allowing access to social media websites for the first time since the restive Himalayan region was locked down and...
REUTERS 2020-03-05 10:39:26
The total number of known coronavirus cases in India rose sharply to 29 on Wednesday, including 16 Italian tourists who had tested positive for the disease as well as an employee of a digital payments...
-- 2020-03-04 19:44:45
Italy has announced the closure off all schools and universities in a bid to contain the spread of coronavirus, as the death toll in the country rose to 79. The government ordered classrooms across t...
-- 2020-03-04 14:53:05
Two more Turkish soldiers have been killed and six wounded in an attack by Syrian government forces in northwest Syria’s Idlib region, the Turkish Defence Ministry said on Wednesday. Immediatel...
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