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Coronavirus: Ontario Nurses’ Association calls work conditions in care homes ‘unfathomable’

Merrilee Fullerton said. Health Minister Christine Elliott has acknowledged that some outbreaks in long-term care homes have been the result of staff who work...

Barack Obama endorses Joe Biden for USA president

Bernie Sanders to abandon the 2020 Democratic presidential race during four lengthy phone calls, according to The New York Times . Warren announced her e...

Germany Arrests Four Tajik Nationals Suspected Of Plotting Terrorist Attack

The Tajik nationals were identified as Azizjon B, Muhammadali G, Farhodshoh K and Sunatullokh K. The surnames were not made public for privacy reasons. The dead...

Coronavirus: Eight deaths at Waterloo care home

Professor Martin Green, chief executive of Care England, which represents independent social care services, said there have been thousands of cases and deaths...

USA passes peak on new coronavirus cases

But now, the United States is the worst-affected country with more than 609,000 confirmed coronavirus cases and deaths topping 25,000. Governors of about 20...

Trump warns he'll adjourn Congress to make recess appointments

No U.S. president has ever used the authority, included in the Constitution, to adjourn both chambers of Congress if they can not agree on a date to adjourn. "I...

Germany to gradually ease COVID-19 lockdown

Germany is moving towards a progressive lifting of restrictions linked to the coronavirus outbreak as new infections fall and the number of deaths remains fa...

Zoo might feed animals to each other to stay afloat during lockdown

Germany's national zoo association (VdZ) argues that zoos, unlike many other businesses, can not go into hibernation and run down costs. The BBC said Neumun...

Congress Must Halt Administration's Plan to Suspend Critical Funding to WHO

Smallpox was a very different disease to Covid-19, but the world's successful eradication of it demonstrates what worldwide organizations can accomplish when go...

At least 33 dead after dozens of tornadoes ravage Southern states

With severe weather disabling power lines, thousands of homes were left without electricity on Easter Sunday . No deaths were reported from the city, but s...

'Ghosts' scare Indonesians indoors and away from virus

The mysterious figures have been spotted in the Indonesian village of Kepuh, where they are helping to entice people to avoid public places to ward off the dead...

Global coronavirus cases surpass 2 million

The US saw its deadliest day yet for the coronavirus on Tuesday - with more than 2,405 fatalities around the country, according to reports. However, the USA c...

Virginia Pastor Dies From COVID-19 Complications Weeks After Holding Packed Service

He said that he believes strongly that God is bigger than any virus and that there is healing in his church. The late bishop's wife, Marcietia Glenn , is als...

Coronavirus crisis: International Monetary Fund forecasts Australian economy will contract 6.7 per cent

The Fund invited the remaining creditors to participate in the exemption of poor countries from debt payments for a full two years. On Monday, the Internatio...

NY governor orders residents to wear masks

Global coronavirus cases and deaths. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people. The president added that he would support moves...

World Health Organization defends coronavirus response after Trump criticism

The chair of the African Union's commission Moussa Faki Mahamat, wrote on Twitter: "Surprised to learn of a campaign by the US govt against WHO's global leade...

Coronavirus cases skyrocket to more than 530,000 in the US

The death toll stateside has surged to at least 26,000, with all 50 states under an emergency disaster declaration for the first time in history. Almost 70 per ...

How India identifies coronavirus COVID-19 hotspots, non-hotspots and green zones

Health Ministry today wrote to all states dividing 712 Indian districts into three segments - red zone or hotspot districts with large number of absolute COVID...

International Monetary Fund sees the global economy shrinking in 2020

Visit Business Insider Australia's homepage for more stories . The global economy is projected to contract sharply by "minus three per cent" in 2020 as a resu...

Italy daily virus death toll climbs by 602

Of those infected, 28,023 people are now hospitalized, 176 more from the previous day; 3,260 are in intensive care, down by 83; and 72,333, or about 70 percent,...

Defeat the virus first, criticize later, appeals World Health Organization after Trump stops funding

Now 24 countries, including several already dealing with large measles outbreaks, have suspended widespread vaccinations, the World Health Organization and the ...

Senator Elizabeth Warren Endorses Joe Biden For President

Still, some Biden advisers view Minnesota as a state that is less critical to their path to victory than some other Midwestern states, including Wisconsin and...

Coronavirus: 'Surreal' for New Zealand nurse treating Boris Johnson

Deaths from the coronavirus have continued to mount in Britain. "I think over the years she has always told us that her job is one-on-one nursing with very ...

More than 100 recovered coronavirus patients in South Korea test positive again

Jeong said that the CDC will begin to conduct an epidemiological test on a patient that was classified as fully recovered and is now testing positive for th...

Trump's attacks on World Health Organization contradict his own words, and the facts

He first threatened to do so last week, accusing the World Health Organization of mismanaging the spread of the novel coronavirus , and of not acting quickly e...

China restricts publication of research papers on coronavirus COVID-19 origin

The page has since been deleted, but a cached version of it remains accessible . The directive is an output of a meeting held on March 25 by the State Counci...

Coronavirus: Why are we still in lockdown in the UK?

Speaking at Monday's Downing Street press conference, Raab said: "Our plan is working". He said: "We're still not past the peak of this virus, so please conti...

Trump to stop funding to WHO

He told the press that the World Health Organization had "failed in its basic duty" and was biased towards China. The organization has irresponsibly promoted Ch...

Ardern, NZ ministers take COVID-19 pay cut

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced the decision at a press conference on Wednesday, saying the move was a reflection of the economic challenges faced by ...

Coronavirus: US to halt funding to WHO

The World Health Organization is a U.N. specialized agency - an independent global body that works with the United Nations. He added if the World Health Org...

Wuhan Institute of Virology: Origin of Coronavirus or Conspiracy Nonsense?

The intelligence community has provided no evidence to confirm that the virus originated in a lab, according to The New York Times . But after initially agreei...

Chinese Carrier Group Conducts Training New Island- Taiwan

Almost 600 sailors on the aircraft carrier have now tested positive for COVID-19 with about 92 per cent of the ship's crew having been tested. On Sunday, the ...

COVID-19 death toll tops 12000 in UK

Oregon Health Authority released a second weekly report on Tuesday providing an analysis about COVID-19 cases in Oregon . Twenty-seven of the 365 new deaths...

China Approved Human Tests for two COVID-19 Vaccines

Three potential COVID-19 vaccines are making fast progress in early-stage testing in volunteers in China and the US, but it's still a long road to prove if ...

US COVID-19 Death Toll Surpasses 25,000 - Johns Hopkins

Hopkins' data previously showed that the cases had passed two million, which the university attributed to an "anomaly in Florida data for Okaloosa that drove a ...