Even as the virus has slowed its growth in overwhelmed Italy and in China , where it first emerged, hospitals in Spain and France are reaching their breaking points and the US and Britain are bra...

Local media reported that the driver of the truck had allegedly fallen asleep behind the wheel. The truck driver didn't suffer any serious injuries. The driver and his dog were not seriously injur...

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said that as of 9 p.m. March 31, a total of 2,352 of those treated in hospital after being tested positive for coronavirus had died. "So green shoots bu...

It was just a few hours after he spoke to President Trump. "He agreed with the approach of focusing on the hot spots". However, once the White House extended national guidelines of social distancing t...

Trump and Putin have maintained a close relationship despite tensions between the USA and Russian Federation over issues ranging from US intelligence agency findings that Russian Federation interfer...

The death toll of coronavirus in the United States has officially exceeded that of China where the deadly virus broke out. "This is a number that we can anticipate, but not accept that it is inevita...

It was not immediately clear what information Trump was referring to in his tweet, which was posted after he was scheduled to have a 12:00pm (16:00 GMT) intelligence briefing. On Monday, Washington de...

Instead of pranks and tricks, people took to platforms like Twitter and Facebook to say how April Fools' Day is cancelled this year as the year 2020 seems to have been a joke. The World Health O...

This prompted an apology from the Women's Development Department, which released a statement on March 31 saying it would be more careful moving forward. Many proponents of women's rights groups rightl...

Spain is now rapidly catching up on Italy , which is the worst-affected country in the world with nearly 12,500 deaths. Even before the his appeal, almost 80,000 former nurses, doctors and other pr...

USGS reports a 6.5 magnitude natural disaster at 5:52 pm Tuesday evening 72km west of Challis, ID. It struck about 6.2 miles (10 kilometers) below the surface, making it a very shallow natural disast...

Syrian air defenses in the central province of Homs opened fire Tuesday night on missiles launched from what state media claimed were Israeli warplanes. Though Israeli officials generally refrain fr...

Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during a ceremony, which awards constructors of the Crimean Bridge over the Kerch Strait, in Sevastopol, Crimea March 18, 2020. counterpart, Donald...

Jasarevic didn't respond to a question on whether Aylward had hung up on the reporter. When Ms Tong offered to repeat the question, the official said: 'No it's okay. The WHO's dating with China has ...

The NHC announced Tuesday that it would respond "to public concerns " by starting to publish daily data on asymptomatic cases, which it said were infectious. China has been praised by many in the m...

The magnitude of the response must coincide with the dimension of the present crisis: at large scale, coordinated and comprehensive, with domestic and global responses guided by the World Health Org...

I greet with respect the free choice of the Hungarian parliament (137 votes in favour and 53 against), democratically elected by the citizens. The bill required a two-third majority to pass. In a me...

In a statement sent to local media, Twitter said it had recently included among its criteria for excluding tweets, content that contradicted public health information from official sources and cou...

The hospitality company , in a statement made available to the public and seen by Nairametrics, explained that the affected hosts would get 25% of their normal cancellation fee for stays booked betw...

There have been 3,415 deaths in the United States from the virus, the Baltimore-based university said, more than the 3,309 reported officially in China. At the time of writing the total number of coro...

Inspired by the book " We're Going on a Bear Hunt " by British author Michael Rosen, the stuffed toys have been cropping up in windows, including in the U.S., providing kids a safe activity as they st...

In a four-page memo to Navy leaders, the captain of the nuclear-powered warship said the spread of the disease was ongoing and accelerating, and said that removing all but 10 per cent of the crew is...

Lancashire Police issued 123 enforcement notices over the weekend, while Cheshire Police reportedly summonsed six people for various offences, including travelling to purchase "non-essential" items....

The FBI's handling of warrants under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act has been under scrutiny since the 2016 campaign, when it was revealed the bureau sought a warrant to snoop on Carter Pag...

The UK has been in lockdown for the past week to combat the spread of the coronavirus . Videos and pictures shared online show the goats grazing on grass from church grounds, flower beds, and resid...

A Keralite who attended the religious congregation at Nizamuddin in Delhi has died of fever the other day. The Telangana Chief Minister's Office said in a tweet, "Six people from Telangana who att...

The shift came after more than a year of faltering US-led efforts to oust the leftist Maduro and as Guaido comes under growing pressure, with authorities on Tuesday summoning him over charges of attem...

Some hospitals are now parking refrigerated trailers outside their doors to collect the dead. "What we've learned from painful experience with this outbreak is that it goes along nearly on a strai...

NY has become the epicenter of the pandemic in the United States with almost 40,000 sick and more than 1,200 dead. The Empire State Building lit up red and white like a siren for emergency workers. ...

There are four cases in the urban service area of Fort McMurray . Up to 60 of the 661 cases may be due to community transmission. Of these cases, there have been 41 hospitalizations, with 14 admi...

The officer said one of those killed was a forestry guide and the rest were firefighters. The fire erupted Monday afternoon at around 4 p.m. near a farm in the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture. Li...

It comes as the death toll rose to 46 yesterday as the virus claimed the lives of another 10 patients, including eight men and two women. Six of the eight deaths reported on Monday occurred in the e...

Federal judges in OH and Texas have blocked orders banning non-essential medical procedures from limiting abortion access during the coronavirus outbreak, a win for abortion rights activists as ...

Chief medical officer of health Dr. Janice Fitzgerald says a patient admitted to a hospital in St. Anthony, N.L., was among the 18 new cases announced on Saturday. There are 2,498 confirmed cases of C...

Several members of Islamic State have escaped from prison after militants sparked a riot and seized control of part of a large jail in north-east Syria, Kurdish and USA military sources have said. T...