Online Desk : Cases of the new coronavirus are overwhelming hospitals, morgues and cemeteries across Brazil as Latin America’s largest nation veers closer to becoming one of the world’s pandemic hot spots….
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World leaders to launch Covid-19 drugs, vaccine plan: WHO
Online Desk : French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel will help launch a global initiative on Friday to accelerate work on drugs, tests and vaccines against Covid-19 and to…
Large-scale human trial of COVID-19 vaccine kicks off at Oxford
Online Desk ; In the global scramble for a COVID-19 vaccine, a select number of human trials are now under way, but it’s scientists from England’s University of Oxford who appear most…
Explainer: What the US funds freeze could mean for WHO and its work
Online Desk : US President Donald Trump has told his administration to temporarily halt funding to the World Health Organization (WHO) in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic caused by the new…
Boris Johnson discharged from hospital
Online Desk : Prime Minister Boris Johnson has left hospital after being treated for coronavirus, but will not immediately return to work, Downing Street says. Mr Johnson, 55, was taken to St…
Global virus death toll passes 94,000, but some signs of hope
Online Desk : Another horror day of the coronavirus pandemic saw the global death toll pass 94,000, although there were tentative signs of hope that the crisis was peaking in the United…
Death toll due to COVID-19 rises to 149; cases climb to 5,194 in India
Online Desk : The death toll due to the novel coronavirus rose to 149 and the number of cases to 5,194 in the country on Wednesday, according to the Union Health Ministry….
‘Now is not the time to relax measures’: WHO Europe
Online Desk : Despite “positive signs” from some countries, it is too early to scale back measures aimed at containing the spread of the coronavirus, the World Health Organization’s European office said…
Global death toll from coronavirus at 75,542
Online desk ; The worldwide number of fatalities from the novel coronavirus rose to 75,542 on Tuesday, according to a tally compiled by AFP at 1100 GMT from official sources. More than…
Venezuelans stream home from Colombia due to virus pandemic
Online desk ; Hundreds of Venezuelans who fled to neighboring Colombia during their country’s economic crisis are now returning home, pushed by the deadly novel coronavirus and Colombia’s own pandemic woes. Colombian…
Pope urges courage as global death toll tops 65,000
Online desk ; Pope Francis appealed Sunday for courage in the face of the coronavirus pandemic that has claimed more than 65,000 lives across the globe in just three months. US President…
Xi leads national mourning for lives lost to COVID-19
Online Desk : Xi Jinping led other Chinese leaders on Saturday to attend national mourning for martyrs who died fighting the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and compatriots who lost their lives in…