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Phuket detained as Covid-19 business soars

Bangkok governor Pol Gen Aswin Kwanmuang issued an announcement ordering the temporary closure of shops or places selling alcoholic beverages effective from to...

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He was moved back to a regular ward on Thursday evening, and his office said he was in "the early phase of his recovery". Also we know that people under about 6...

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China leads the way in terms of recovered patients, with more than 77,000, according to Johns Hopkins, followed by Spain with more than 48,000; Germany with mor...

Cuomo coronavirus briefing: ‘I still want to know how this happened’

Cuomo has at times criticized Trump and the federal response harshly, but has also been complimentary as he seeks to secure more aid for NY. At least 151,000 ...

Canada Finds Way-Around to Export Armored Vehicles to Saudi

Champagne reiterated past Liberal complaints that they were hamstrung by the confidentiality provisions of the contract, which was negotiated by the previous Co...

Boris Johnson walking in hospital as United Kingdom records almost 1000 daily deaths

However, fears are growing about the indirect impact of the unprecedented nationwide lockdown introduced on March 23 to try to stop Covid-19's spread. His fathe...

So Many Virus Deaths, New York Opens Mass Burial Site

Over one million people are interred there. The measure, due to remain in place until 30 April, comes after health officials this week said black Chicagoans...

China President Pledges Help to South Africa in Coronavirus Fight

Noting China and Africa are brothers that share weal and woe, Xi said China has paid close attention to the epidemic situation in Africa and provided anti-epide...

China to reclassify dogs as pets, not livestock, in wake of coronavirus

According to a Xinhua report in 2016, 64 percent of Chinese people want an end to the controversial "Yulin Dog Meat Festival". The Chinese Ministry of Agr...

Lockdown extended until May 3 says Conte - English

While winning kudos for his government's handling of the COVID-19 crisis, critics of the prime minister find fault with his procrastination over introducing re...

Benjamin Netanyahu thanks India for delivering hydroxychloroquine to Israel

President of the United States of America Donald Trump on Thursday thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for India delivering the order of the hydroxychloroquin...

Wearing home-made masks may help stop virus spread: Health Canada

And she pleaded with Canadians to continue to practise social distancing, in tandem with the wearing of any protective gear. A woman wears a homemade protecti...

World Health Organization denies ignoring Taiwan early virus warning

In recent years, Taiwan has met with increasing difficulty to take part in the WHO , International Civil Aviation Organization, or Interpol activities, as Beij...

New York's virus death toll almost three times 9/11

Now one hospital in the worst hit state of Bavaria has granted rare access to the daily war its fighting against Covid19. It has the most cases, hospitalization...

Top EU scientist quits over inadequate response to the coronavirus

The ERC's scientific council also hit back only moments later, bullet-pointing all their complaints against Ferrari, while insinuating he had been lying. Prof...

Biden attempts to woo Sanders supporters with Medicare expansion, college debt forgiveness

That strategy appeared to have worked exactly the way he wanted from the beginning: on Thursday, Joe Biden released new proposals to lower the Medicare eligib...

Dr. Fauci Doesn't Think Americans Should Ever Shake Hands Again

COVID-19 has now caused almost 15,000 deaths in the US, and more than 430,000 people are infected with the virus, according to a COVID-19 dashboard created by ...

Fauci: Social distancing could reduce coronavirus death toll to 60,000

President Donald Trump said that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) would be releasing guidance on how critical infrastructure workers can ret...

Covid-19 kills almost 2,000 in United States for 2nd straight day

NY state is continuing to follow several models created at the start of the outbreak that predict an increase in hospitalizations, Cuomo said . Deaths are sp...

USA threatens to block China Telecom from serving American market

The FCC last May voted unanimously to deny another state-owned Chinese telecommunications company, China Mobile Ltd, the right to provide services in the Unit...

Coronavirus: Iran presses for International Monetary Fund loan, some business to stay shut

The White House also claimed that if allowed to tap IMF financing, Tehran will be in a position to divert its existing funds to the rest of the economy, whi...

Hong Kong to offer HK$100b Covid-19 relief package, says report

While Thursday's decision upholds a ban on face masks during protests, it recognizes "that many other protesters participating in public assemblies and processi...

Cardinal Pell accuser 'accepts' acquittal

Pell's lawyers argued that Pell would have been standing on the cathedral steps chatting with churchgoers after Mass when his crimes were alleged to have occurr...

Coronavirus will push global economy into deep recession — IMF Leader

With commodity prices down sharply, emerging market and developing countries would need trillions of dollars to fight the pandemic and rescue their economies, s...

At least 150 Saudi royal family members infected with coronavirus

Saudi Prince Faisal bin Bandar bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the governor of capital city Riyadh , is in intensive care after contracting coronavirus while about a ...

Australian police raid cruise ship

It has been linked to 15 deaths since it docked in Sydney on 19 March. "Ships have a black box very similar to that of global planes, and that and other evide...

People on Antarctic Cruise Ship Test Positive for Coronavirus

A sick 75-year-old Australian passenger of the Greg Mortimer cruise liner is taken to Montevideo's British Hospital on Friday. Uruguay, which is assuming th...

Woman who revealed Clinton-Lewinsky scandal dies

The Washington Post reported Wednesday that Tripp had died following a brief battle with pancreatic cancer. When news of Tripp being "near-death" broke, M...

U.S. Intelligence Warned of Coronavirus Outbreak as Early as November

While the exact date of the first report remains unclear, sources told CNN that intelligence gathered in November and in the weeks following offered multiple ...

Illinois Man Kills Wife, Then Himself in Fear of Coronavirus Diagnosis

A man who feared that he and the woman he lived with had contracted the coronavirus shot her in the back of the head before turning the gun on himself and tak...

Saudi-led coalition declares ceasefire in Yemen

Maliki said the move supports Yemeni government's decision to accept the cease-fire call by UN Special Envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths to curb the spread o...

NY reports highest one-day virus death toll

A woman is loaded into an ambulance by paramedics in the Harlem neighbourhood of Manhattan during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID19) in New York...

Paris outdoor sports activities banned between 10 am & 7 pm

Paris officers stated on Tuesday they'd ban lone daytime jogging as folks proceed to flout anti-coronavirus lockdown guidelines, after France recorded its hi...

WHO Boss: I Don't Give A Damn'...'I'm Proud Of Being Black

In a statement on Thursday, the territory's Foreign Ministry expressed "strong dissatisfaction and a high degree of regret, and raised the most solemn protest"....

British PM in intensive care after coronavirus symptoms worsen

The broadcaster says a spokesman of the Downing Street informed he was moved on the advice of his medical team and is receiving "excellent care". Johnson , 5...