Trump urges US citizens to practice social distancing as country toll crosses 9,500-mark
COVID-19: France's coronavirus deaths top 8,000; confirmed cases rise to 70,478
Two Air India planes en route to Frankfurt with relief materials and evacuated Europeans aboard received unexpected praise while passing through the Pakistani air space
The UK government on Sunday announced the first seven chartered flights next week to bring home British nationals stranded in India amidst the international travel lockdown over the coronavirus pandemic. An estimated 35,000 British nationals are curr
New York had recorded the highest increase in the number of deaths from COVID19 in a single day between April 2 and 3 when 562 people died of the disease. In the 24 hours since April 4, the death toll grew to 630, “all-time increase” up to a total of 3,565, an increase from 2,935 on Friday morning.
Mosques were allowed to remain open in Pakistan on Friday, when Muslims gather for weekly prayers, even as the coronavirus pandemic spread and much of the country had shut down.
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday announced stimulus packages to the tune of Taka 72,750 crore (USD 8,573 million) to counter the adverse effects of coronavirus on the country's economy.
As soon as, the Chinese government lifted the travel ban and other restrictions that were brought to contain coronavirus spread, people in mainland China were seen flocking to Huangshan, famously known as Yellow Mountain, located in Anhui province.
Coronavirus cases in New York State now stand at 113,704, out of the country's total number of 312,146. New Jersey, the second most impacted state in the US, has about 30,000 COVID-19 cases. New York City alone has 63,306 coronavirus patients, up from 57,169 the previous 24 hours, and 2,624 deaths.
Another cruise ship with coronavirus victims on board, including two fatalities, docked in Florida on Saturday.
Pakistan's coronavirus cases rose to 2818 on Saturday whereas Punjab has emerged as the hotspot of the coronavirus cases in Pakistan, with a total of 1131 confirmed cases till now.
The New York governor said Saturday the Chinese government was facilitating a shipment of 1,000 donated ventilators to his state, highlighting the extreme measures leaders are taking in what has become a cutthroat scramble to independently secure enough lifesaving devices during the coronavirus pandemic.
US President Donald Trump has warned the Americans of the toughest next two weeks as the number of confirmed coronavirus cases crossed three lakh-mark and the death toll stood over 8,000.
Novel-coronavirus disease continues to affect more and more people across the world. More than 1.1 million people have so far tested positive for COVID-19 while 64,000 people have lost their lives. 245,000 people have so far recovered from the disease. In the United States alone, the coronavirus positive cases have gone past 300,000 while in India more than 3,000 people have been infected with the deadly virus. Get the latest updates on Coronavirus here:
Coronavirus cases worldwide have crossed the 1.2 million mark as a surge in cases in several western countries continued on Saturday. As per latest figures, the USA saw 34,000 new cases to take its overall tally to 311,357, by far the most by any country. Spain with 126,168 has gone ahead of Italy as far as number of COVID-19 cases is concerned with the latter being third with 124,632 cases.
According to Trump, the drug is yielding positive results. If successful, he told reporters that it would be a gift from heaven. In the next several weeks, health experts in the US have projected between 100,000 to 200,000 deaths due to coronavirus, which due to human-to-human transmission is spreading like a wildfire in the US.
US President Donald Trump has said that he has requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to release the amount of Hydroxychloroquine ordered by the United States after India last month banned the drugs for exports.
The London-based International Council of Jurists has urged the UN Human Rights Council to make China pay "exemplary damages" for its "grave offences against humanity", alleging the coronavirus pandemic is primarily a conspiracy of Beijing to catapult itself as a superpower.
No one stands in line to embrace the widow and share memories of her husband of 50 years. No rows of family and friends file toward the flag-draped coffin to pay their last respects. No symphony of sniffles is heard across the room as the minister gives a final prayer.
As the coronavirus crisis continues to deepen, various vaccines and potential medicines are being claimed as possible cures for the deadly infection. Another such study has claimed that a head lice drug might prove effective in killing coronavirus within just 48 hours.
A group of Chinese mountaineers has begun an expedition on Mount Everest as China limped back to normalcy after the coronavirus outbreak.
The Afghan security forces today arrested the chief of Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) on charges of orchestrating the attack on Kabul Gurdwara on March 25.
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