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

British MP Nadine Dorries, a minister in the health department, has tested positive for coronavirus, she said in a statement on Tuesday, raising concerns about whether senior government figures have been infected. “I can confirm I have tested positive for coronavirus... and have been self-isolati

Islamabad: A Pakistan Air Force F-16 fighter jet crashed in the capital city of Islamabad on Wednesday morning, a spokesman for the air force said. "We are ascertaining the losses," the spokesman told Reuters by phone. The U.S.-built F-16 was taking part in rehearsals for a Pakistan Day air show

More than 130 Indians are on a cruise ship that US authorities allowed to dock in California on Monday after keeping it away at sea for days off because of an outbreak of Coronavirus on board affecting both passengers and crew. “We can confirm that there is one guest passenger and 131 team member

Washington: White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham said on Monday that testing was not necessary because President Trump is not showing symptoms and the lawmakers aren’t confirmed to be infected. “The President has not received COVID-19 testing because he has neither had prolonged close co

Sudan's prime minister survived an assassination attempt on Monday after a blast in the capital, Khartoum, Sudanese state media said. Abdalla Hamdok's family confirmed he was safe following the explosion, which targeted his convoy. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. H

New Delhi: Qatar has temporarily banned entry of people coming from India and 13 other countries in the wake of coronavirus outbreak. The temporary ban would also be applicable on people coming from Bangladesh, China, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, South Korea, Sri La

Beijing: At least ten people were killed in the collapse of a hotel used as a coronavirus quarantine facility in eastern China, authorities said Sunday. Rescuers retrieved 48 people from the rubble, of whom 38 are still alive, the Ministry of Emergency Management said on social media. The buildi

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said Pakistan does not want any security role for India in Afghanistan as he accused New Delhi of playing the role of a “spoiler” in the war-torn country, according to a media report. After months of negotiations, the US and Taliban signed a landmark peac