United Nations: The coronavirus pandemic is the most challenging crisis the world has faced since World War II, one that is killing people and will also lead to an economic recession without any parallel in the recent past, according to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. According to the esti

The coronavirus death toll in Spain surged over 9,000 on Wednesday after a record 864 deaths in 24 hours, with the number of confirmed cases passing the 100,000 mark, the government said. Spain has the world's second-highest death toll after Italy, with the virus so far claiming 9,053 lives and t

Moscow: Russia on Sunday sent the first of nine military planes which are to take a total of 100 army virus experts and medics to Italy to help fight the coronavirus pandemic there. The Russian defense ministry said that the aid mission was agreed by President Vladimir Putin and Italian Prime Min

Colombo: The coronavirus scare triggered a riot in a Sri Lankan jail on Saturday, leading to a gunfight which left one inmate killed and five others injured, officials said. According to prison rights activists, the prisoners were demanding their release due to the threat to their lives in view o

Washington: A staffer in the team of US Vice President Mike Pence has tested positive for the coronavirus, making him the first White House personnel to have been infected by the deadly disease that has so far claimed the lives of 230 people in the country. "This evening we were notified that a m

Rome: Hundreds of millions of people worldwide kicked off the weekend under a coronavirus lockdown, as the global death toll accelerated sharply and the World Health Organization warned young people they were "not invincible". The pandemic has completely upended lives across the planet, sharply r

United Nations: Nearly 25 million jobs could be lost worldwide due to the coronavirus pandemic, but an internationally coordinated policy response can help lower the impact on global unemployment, according to a UN agency. In its preliminary assessment report titled "COVID-19 and world of work: I

Islamabad/Lahore: Pakistan on Wednesday, March 18 reported its first two casualties due to the deadly coronavirus that has infected 301 people across the country. “Sad to report one patient who passed away in Mardan,” Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Health Minister Taimur Khan Jhagra tweeted late Wednesday ni

Beijing: China on Thursday, March 19 reported no new domestic cases of the coronavirus for the first time since it started recording them in January, but recorded a spike in infections imported from abroad. There were 34 cases that were brought in from abroad, the biggest daily increase in two we

Beijing: China on Monday announced plans for an orderly withdrawal of thousands of medical staff deployed in the worst-hit Wuhan city as a top medical expert said the coronavirus outbreak has "almost seen its end" in the country but a final judgement would be made after a month. A leading Chinese

Bordered by China and South Korea, two early victims of coronavirus, Kim Jong Un’s North Korea claims it has evaded the pandemic with no cases of infection. Diplomats and experts piecing together the clues see a different picture. Kim brought his already isolated country to a near standstill by s

Spanish government said that nearly 1,000 new cases have been reported in the last 24 hours Alibaba founder Jack Ma donates kits, masks to the US Chinese billionaire Jack Ma on Monday sent 50,000 testing kits and a million masks to the US, as the country faces shortage of kits amid the virus o

A Japanese man was sentenced to death on Monday for killing 19 disabled people in a knife-wielding rampage in 2016 that was one of post-war Japan’s worst mass killings. Satoshi Uematsu, 30, had admitted to stabbing to death or injuring the victims at a care centre for people with mental disabilit

President Donald Trump’s declaration on Friday that the coronavirus outbreak is a “national emergency” allows billions of federal dollars and resources to be funneled to hard-hit US states. NATIONAL EMERGENCY In declaring that the coronavirus outbreak in the United States constitutes a nationa

Kathmandu: Nepal has closed all of its Himalayan peaks including Mount Everest this climbing season because of fears of the coronavirus outbreak, a government minister said on Friday. Nepal, home to eight of the world's 14 highest mountains including Mount Everest, gets more than four million dol

Ottawa: The wife of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has tested positive for the new coronavirus, his office said late Thursday. “Sophie Gregoire-Trudeau was tested for COVID-19 today. The test came back positive,” the Prime Minister’s office said in a statement. “Following medical advic

“Where are we supposed to go?,” a woman, stranded at an airport in Italy, who had booked her tickets to Kerala, was heard saying in a video which has gone viral in the social media. Many like her stranded at airports in Italy can be heard making desperate pleas for being airlifted to their home s

Seattle: An American woman who has recovered from the Covid-19 coronavirus has a simple message for people who are worried: Don't panic. But the PhD holder in bioengineering also advised to "do think about high-risk individuals and stay home if (anyone) feels ill." Elizabeth Schneider is a res