Global virus deaths top 150,000 as US braces for lockdown protests
The United States accounts for nearly a third of the 2.25 million coronavirus infections reported globally.
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Coronavirus deaths have surged past 150,000 worldwide...
COVID-19: Virus mars Easter holidays as death toll nears 100,000
AFP
Hundreds of millions of people around the world will spend the Easter holiday at home as lockdown measures intensify to combat the coronavirus, a...
Coronavirus may spark ‘devastating’ global condom scarcity
AFP
A global condom shortage is looming as the coronavirus pandemic shutters factories and disrupts supply chains, the world's top maker of the contraceptives said,...
COVID-19: British PM Boris Johnson hospitalised with coronavirus but ‘still in...
AFP
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was in hospital on Monday undergoing tests after suffering "persistent" symptoms of coronavirus for 10 days, but colleagues insisted...
Coronavirus may spread through normal breathing, speaking: US scientists
AFP
The new coronavirus might spread through the air via normal breathing and speaking, a top US scientist said Friday as the government was poised...
Battered Italy sees rays of hope in grim death data
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Italy's top coronavirus response official Tuesday attributed two successive declines in the daily death rate to a painful national lockdown that appeared to be...
Britain in lockdown as WHO warns pandemic ‘accelerating’
Britain was under lockdown Tuesday, its population joining around 1.7 billion people around the globe ordered to stay indoors to curb the "accelerating" spread...
California goes on virus lockdown as Italy death toll overtakes China
California's 40 million people were under lockdown on Friday in the most drastic quarantine efforts by a US state to contain the fast-spreading coronavirus,...
China reports zero new domestic virus cases for first time
China on Thursday marked a major milestone in its battle against the coronavirus pandemic as it recorded zero domestic infections for the first time...
Poland government in quarantine after minister diagnosed with novel coronavirus
Poland’s government was under quarantine on Tuesday after one minister tested positive for the novel coronavirus as authorities introduced sweeping measures to combat the...