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The global march of the new virus triggered a vigorous appeal Thursday from the WHO for governments to pull out “all the stops” to slow the epidemic, as it drained colour from India’s spring festivities, closed Bethlehem’s Nativity Church and blocked Italians from visiting elderly relatives in nursing homes. As […]

The northwestern Chinese province of Gansu reported 11 new confirmed coronavirus patients, all of whom entered China on commercial flights from Iran, according to state media. A total of 311 passengers arriving at the provincial capital of Lanzhou from Iran have now been quarantined, state broadcaster CCTV reported late on […]

Dubai’s ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum conducted a campaign aimed at “intimidating and frightening” his estranged wife Princess Haya Bint al-Hussein before she fled to the U.K., a London judge has ruled in a case over the welfare of their two young children. The princess said she feared […]

China has approved the use of Swiss drugmaker Roche’s anti-inflammation drug Actemra for patients who develop severe complications from the coronavirus as it urgently hunts for new ways to combat the deadly infection that is spreading worldwide. China is hoping that some older drugs could stop severe cytokine release syndrome […]

President Donald Trump complained Wednesday that anti-coronavirus measures are leaving him out of touch — with his own face. Trump spoke at a White House meeting with airline executives and administration officials on sanitary measures taken to try and stop the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Executives explained their enhanced […]

Over 3,000 people are now dead in China from the coronavirus outbreak, health officials said on Thursday. President Xi Jinping warned of the epidemic escalating outside the epicentre of Hubei province as more people travel and crowds gather across the country. Xi’s word of caution comes in the backdrop of the […]

Almost 300 million students worldwide faced weeks at home on Thursday with Italy the latest country to shut schools over the deadly new coronavirus, as the IMF urged an all-out, global offensive against the epidemic. More than 95,000 people have been infected and over 3,200 have died worldwide from the […]

The death toll in the United States from the new coronavirus rose to 11 on Wednesday, as lawmakers in Congress agreed to provide more than $8 billion to fight the rapidly spreading disease. California Governor Gavin Newsom declared an emergency as he reported the state’s first fatality from the COVID-19 […]

Police in Lithuania intervened in a domestic dispute on Wednesday after a man locked his wife in the bathroom over fears that she may be carrying the coronavirus. “We got the report that a husband and two adult sons refused to let the woman out of the bathroom after she […]

President Donald Trump on Wednesday hailed Democrat Joe Biden’s “incredible comeback” in the primaries race and signalled how he will attack the new frontrunner, saying he was surrounded by far leftists. “It was a great comeback for Joe Biden, an incredible comeback when you think about it,” Trump told reporters […]

China on Thursday reported 31 more deaths from the new coronavirus epidemic, taking the country’s overall toll past 3,000, with the number of new infections slightly increasing. At least 3,012 people have now died nationwide in the outbreak that first emerged in the central city of Wuhan, capital of Hubei […]

Britain’s medicine regulators seized 3.5 million erectile dysfunction (ED) pills worth more than £10 million in 2019 – 96 per cent of them shipped from India to customers in the UK – as part of a campaign to prevent fake medicines from entering the country. The Medicines and Healthcare products […]

The pet dog of a coronavirus patient in Hong Kong was confirmed to be infected with the disease, in a likely case of human-to-animal transmission, authorities said on Wednesday. The canine, which belongs to a 60-year-old woman patient, had repeatedly tested “weak positive” for the new coronavirus since Friday, when […]

A storm that pummeled Brazil’s south-eastern coast early Tuesday caused landslides and killed at least 16 people. Dozens more were missing. The deaths occurred in the cities of Guaruja, Santos and Sao Vicente of Sao Paulo state, with the former hardest hit, according to a statement from its civil defence […]