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Passengers wait to enter Wuhan Railway Station in Wuhan on the morning of April 8, 2020. [Photo by Ke Hao/for chinadaily.com.cn] Cars queued up at expressway toll gates and passengers prepared to board trains and planes to leave Wuhan, Hubei province at midnight. The city, the hardest-hit area by the COVID-19 outbreak on the Chinese […]

UN peacekeepers patrol Maroun Al-Ras village, near the border with Israelin southern Lebanon,September 2, 2019. © Ali Hashisho / Reuters The United Nations has ordered its military and police forces across the globe to suspend rotation in an effort to mitigate the spread of the deadly coronavirus. The suspension will stay in effect until June […]

 AMERICAS APR 07, 2020 6:18 PM GMT+3 WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends a virtual news briefing on COVID-19 at the WHO headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, April 6, 2020. (AFP Photo)  U.S. President Donald Trump sharply criticized the World Health Organization (WHO) Tuesday, accusing it of being too cozy with China and issuing bad advice during […]

REACT EMS paramedics put on protective gear before making contact with a potential coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patient in Shawnee, Oklahoma, U.S. April 2, 2020. © Nick Oxford, REUTERS  The United States recorded 1,169 COVID-19 fatalities in a single day, the Johns Hopkins University tracker showed Thursday, the highest one-day death toll recorded in any country since […]

Simeon Celi Jr./Presidential Photo/File Duterte has approved the grant of a one-time special risk allowance to government health workers at the frontline of the fight against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The special risk allowance is equivalent to a maximum of 25 percent of the monthly basic pay of public health workers, according to Administrative Order […]

Wedding ceremony during Italy’s lockdown in Naples, March 20, 2020 © Reuters / Ciro de Luca Deputy health minister Pierpaolo Sileri said that normal life would only return to Italy after an inoculation was readily available, as the country’s new infection rate continued to decline. The politician, who fell victim to virus himself but has […]

Image on the left shows 71-year-old virus patient’s chest X-ray before plasma therapy at Severance Hospital in Shinchon and the right was taken after undergoing treament. (Severance Hospital) Two patients infected with COVID-19 have recovered after plasma treatments, in the first such cases here, a Seoul-based hospital said Tuesday. Doctors at Severance Hospital in Shincheon had plasma […]

A Saudi man walks past a poster depicting Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz, after a curfew was imposed to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia March 25, 2020. (Reuters) Saudi Arabia’s health minister said the Kingdom’s coronavirus cases could reach between 10,000 to 200,000 within weeks based on four […]

PM is a fighter – I’m confident he’ll pull through’ The foreign secretary says he is “confident” the prime minister will “pull through” after he was put into intensive care on Monday. Dominic Raab, who is now formally deputising for Boris Johnson, was speaking at the daily Downing Street coronavirus briefing on Tuesday.  He reiterated that the […]