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Trump extends best wishes to Boris Johnson; says will recover from coronavirus

Mr Jenrick told BBC Breakfast: "We hope that as a result of these tests [the prime minister] will be able to come back to Downing Street as soon as possible...

Coronavirus: UK prime minister admitted in hospital after testing +ve

Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves 10 Downing Street for PMQ's on March 25, 2020 in London , England. ( TWITTER/ @BorisJohnson via AP). The Guardian was ...

UN Chief Urges Governments to Protect Women during Coronavirus Lockdown

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres late on Sunday (April 6) urged governments around the world to consider protecting women as part of their response to t...

Boris Johnson in hospital

A Number 10 spokesman insisted Mr Johnson remains "in charge of the Government" despite his hospital admission, and he has not handed responsibilities to his ...

Coronavirus: British PM Boris Johnson hospitalised

Johnson , 55, felt unwell on March 26 and took a test for the virus , which confirmed he had the illness. A source stressed: "This was not an emergency admis...

Surgeon General, Trump sound alarm as USA cases top 300,000

It's going to be happening all over the country. In an interview on " Fox News Sunday ", Adams said the public does, however, have "the power to change the tr...

Biden raises idea of Democrats holding an online convention

Last week the Democraic National Committee pushed its presidential convention to August. "That's what they're telling us". But while Sanders won some of the e...

Japan's Abe to declare state of emergency as COVID-19 cases surge

Nobuhiko Okabe, director general of the Kawasaki City Institute for Public Health, said judging the timing for declaring a state of emergency was tough. A revis...

Covid 19 coronavirus: Italy's virus death toll jumps 766 to near 15K

Veneto and Alto Adige require protective masks for residents if they go shopping in stores and markets. Italian health officials remain extremely cautious bec...

Coronavirus | India banned Hydroxychloroquine export just before Trump-Modi call

The problem when the president says what do you have to lose, is that there are significant potential side effects to using this drug, including, when we're loo...

Australia's coronavirus death toll reaches 35 as ANOTHER Ruby Princess passenger dies

The New South Wales government is now working with the ship's owner, Carnival Australia, on plans to repatriate the 1,040 crew from 50 countries. There have b...

US Accused Of 'Modern Piracy' For Redirecting Face Mask Shipment From Germany

The White House, 3M, and the German embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Goods and services are a two-way street between C...

Ecuador stores coronavirus victims in giant fridges as morgues fill up

Residents had published videos on social media showing abandoned bodies in the streets in the Latin American city worst hit by the pandemic. In another video ...

Justin Trudeau & Donald Trump Are Talking Regularly During The Mask Export Situation

He said he would tell the president both countries were interlinked in ways that would hurt the two nations if supply chains were cut. Canadian hospitals shou...

CDC endorses use of cloth masks to block Covid-19

Cloth face coverings fashioned from household items or made at home from common materials at low cost can be used as an additional, according to medical expert...

43 more test positive for coronavirus in Mumbai; death toll 19

The total number of positive cases in the state is 335 with16 people reported dead. As of now, the number of active COVID-19 cases stands at 1,764, of which 1...

USDA: Coronavirus transmitted to tiger in NY zoo

The 4-year-old Malayan tiger named Nadia - and six other tigers and lions that have also fallen ill - are believed to have been infected by a zoo employee who...

Chief Medical Officer Scotland: Who is Catherine Calderwood?

In a statement, she added: "The most important thing to me now and over the next few very hard months is that people across Scotland know what they need to do...

United Kingdom premier admitted to hospital as 'precautionary step'

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson , who tested positive for COVID-19 on March 27, was admitted to hospital on Sunday. The Sunday Times, however, reports t...

Boris Johnson’s Fiancee Carrie Symonds Contracts Coronavirus

Carrie Symonds , Johnson's 32-year-old pregnant fiancee, said on Saturday that she had spent the past week in bed with symptoms of the novel coronavirus but aft...

Surgeon general warns US of 'saddest week' and '9/11 moment'

The number of people infected in the US has exceeded 300,000, with the death toll climbing past 8,400; more than 3,500 of those deaths are in the state of NY. "...

World Health Organization warns countries against rushing to lift coronavirus restrictions

The World Health Organization has revealed that more young people are becoming very ill and dying from the COVID-19 pandemic, CNBC reported yesterday. The co...

Keir Starmer elected as new Labour leader

He said his task was to "lead this great party into a new era, with confidence and hope". Sir Keir said he had been elected "at a time like no other" and prom...

Trump invokes DPA to prevent export of medical goods

But 3M criticized a previously unreported request from the White House that it also stop sending any N95 masks to Latin America and Canada, citing "significant ...

Michael Atkinson: Trump fires intelligence chief involved in impeachment

It was Atkinson who alerted Congress in September to an "urgent" and "credible" whistleblower complaint he'd received against Trump that accused the preside...

Air India commences Delhi-Shanghai cargo flight ops

In what could be moment of light between India and Pakistan amid the heightened tensions over Jammu and Kashmir, national carrier Air India on Saturday receiv...

NY state virus toll spikes as officials plea for medical volunteers

But there's part of me that says it's good that we're not at the apex because we're not yet ready for the apex either, still working on the capacity of the (hea...

Trump says National Football League season should start on time amid coronavirus crisis

He urged certain media outlets to "stop spreading false rumors and creating fear" during the national emergency because it is "essential" that national leaders ...

Bill Gates Calls for Complete National Shutdown

Gates also called for the USA government to step up testing and develop "a data-based approach to developing treatments and a vaccine ". "Any confusion ab...

Pelosi Shreds Trump for Firing Intelligence Community Inspector General

In a letter announcing the decision, Trump said that it is "vital" that he has confidence in the people appointed to be inspectors general, and "that is no long...

Queen Elizabeth to give rare televised speech about the coronavirus

The monarch has been at Windsor for the past fortnight, where she is isolating with her husband the Duke of Edinburgh and a small group of staff. The queen ...

United States deaths exceeds 1300 in a single day

According to the information received, within 24 hours in America, the death toll from the Corona epidemic reached 1,480. The youngest victim was a five-year-ol...

Two killed and others injured in knife attack in south-east France

The victims were doing their food shopping, one of the permitted outside activities, on the street that has bakeries and grocery stores, the prosecutor's office...

Did the Removal of Captain Crozier Violate Military Whistleblower Law?

The Change.org petition to "Reinstate Captain Crozier as Commanding Officer" had gathered 112,166 signatures as of press time Friday afternoon.Friday aftern...

'Immoral, inhuman': China blasts United States over coronavirus questions

Bloomberg News reported that a classified United States intelligence report concluded that China had under-reported the total cases and deaths it had suffered....