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Coronavirus: 812 new fatalities in Spain; Belgium death toll over 500

With a population of only 47 million to China's 1.4 billion, Spain's tally of infections reached 85,195 yesterday, a rise of 8pc from the previous day. "We ar...

Empire State Building lights up with red and white siren

NY could reach its peak of new coronavirus cases within the next seven to 10 days, experts say, as the number of hospital ER visits starts to decrease and off...

19 dead battling southwest China forest fire

The fire started on Monday at a local farm. The weather is hot in China right now and the winds are going strong. Therefore, the fire spread rapidly. Accordin...

Nine more cases of COVID 19 recorded in Galway

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre released data up to the point of midnight on Thursday 26th March showing that Dublin was unsurprisingly the worst affe...

Public Health Ontario reports 1,706 total cases of COVID-19

Premier François Legault said there were 2,840 cases of COVID-19 in the province on Sunday, which is an increase of 342 from the day before. Guilbault says ou...

Spain Overtakes China in Number of Confirmed Cases

In Japan, the countdown clocks were reset and ticking again for the Tokyo Olympics after organizers announced new dates following the postponement from this sum...

2nd death linked to coronavirus in Ottawa, local health unit reports

She said this week will be crucial in determining trends in the virus' spread in each province. Ontario is reporting 211 new lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 t...

Pandemic to hit growth in Asia, China, says World Bank

The World Bank in its latest report, titled, East Asia and Pacific in the Time of COVID-19, says Fiji's short-term outlook is uncertain. In China, where the c...

Ontario Extends Emergency Declaration to Stop the Spread of COVID-19

While the country waits for orders of hundreds of ventilators to arrive, the country's top doctors are trying to reduce the amount we need to treat COVID-19. Th...

UK Police Dye 'Blue Lagoon' Black to Keep Instagrammers Away

This is not the first time the picturesque watercourse, near Buxton and about three hours northwest of London, has been colored black, according to police. St...

Pope Francis tests negative for coronavirus

Saying the condition recognizes no boundaries, Francis appealed to every person to "stop every form of bellicose hostility and to favour the creation of corrido...

IS militants riot in eastern Syria prison, some escape

Some 5,000 IS suspects are held in the jail run by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), according to the Observatory. The coalition said in a tweet t...

Facebook invests 100 mln United States dollars in journalism amid COVID-19 crisis

Social media giant Facebook has pledged to invest $ 100 million in the news industry to promote journalism during the ongoing Wuhan coronavirus pandemic . T...

Migrant workers sprayed with disinfectant in UP

A screengrab of the video shows the migrant workers squatting on the road as a health worker sprays them with sanitiser solution. As per reports, the migrants...

Social distancing measures set to remain for six months

She added: "If we are successful we will have squashed the top of that curve, which is brilliant". "If we stop then all of our efforts will be wasted and we cou...

Coronavirus: Charter flights to help stranded Britons get home

The UK government is dedicating £75m to repatriation flights . Mr Raab said he had spoken to more than 20 of his counterparts around the world about getting ...

More deaths in Ontario related to novel coronavirus

As of Monday, March 30, there are 1,706 cases of COVID-19 and 23 deaths in the province. Previously, the Ontario website reported information such as age, gen...

Italy becomes 2nd country to pass China Coronavirus cases

The number of people that has recovered from the infection has also grown. The total number of recovered or healed people also grew sharply, reaching 14,620. ...

New York Governor’s Daily Coronavirus Briefing

Andrew Cuomo has said. On the verge of 100,000 cases: With more than 97,000 cases of the virus, Italy is likely to soon become the second country in the world...

Benjamin Netanyahu aide has coronavirus but PM exposure unlikely

Netanyahu had tested negative for coronavirus after he and his immediate circle underwent tests on March 15. The two men held talks through Saturday night "...

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Donald Trump contacted former-Yankee Alex Rodriquez, earlier this week, regarding the Coronavirus response, according to ABC's John Santucci and John Sa...

First flight carrying PPE has landed in Dublin Airport

The plane, named St Ronán, touched down at about 15:00 local time on Sunday. Irish Health Minister Simon Harris said: "We are doing everything that is human...

Alleged virus rumor triggers Thai prison riot

Since the beginning of the year, riots also have broken out in prisons in Aligudarz, Hamedan, and Tabriz as well, with some prisoners escaping, IRNA reported. T...

79 more cases of COVID-19 in Alberta

That total remains at 12 with five cases each in Medicine Hat and Lethbridge with the other two in the M.D. of Taber. In the North zone, the number of cases h...

COVID-19 crisis: Federal government set to offer workers wage guarantee

In a statement, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said it was "really pleasing the Australia Government has agreed to provide them a wage subsidy at their time of n...

Prince Charles out of self-isolation as he recovers from coronavirus

It came as a shock to the world when it was revealed that Prince Charles , the Duke of Cornwall, was diagnosed with the coronavirus . Individuals living with ...

Imported coronavirus cases risk fanning second wave: China official

On Monday, the Chinese central bank unexpectedly cut the interest rate on reverse repurchase agreements by 20 basis points, the largest in almost five years. Ch...

First US infant death linked to COVID-19 reported in IL

Illinois Department of Public Health Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike reported 13 new COVID-19 deaths on Saturday, including an infant in Chicago and an Illinois Depar...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson writing to every household with coronavirus advice

The UK on Saturday recorded 260 confirmed cases of coronavirus , its highest single-day tally, taking the total number of positive cases in the country to 17,0...

Coronavirus:PM's letter to the nation

Speaking at the government's daily coronavirus briefing, Prof Stephen Powis said "every one of us" had a part to play if the United Kingdom was to keep the de...