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Muslims around the world celebrates Eid amid curfews and virus fears
The three-day holiday of Eid is usually a time of travel, family get-togethers and lavish daytime feasts after weeks of dawn-to-dusk fasting
24 May 2020 4:07 PM
Australia PM pushes jobs to minimise government welfare spending
Country’s second-most populous state, Victoria, resume tourism as virus eases
24 May 2020 3:55 PM
Patient tally continues to fall in France
Two weeks after lifting lockdown, France had an increase of 0.2%, below the average 0.3% increase of the past seven days in new virus cases
24 May 2020 3:43 PM
Trump declares churches 'essential,' calls on them to reopen
The US president threatened to “override” governors who defy him on Friday, but it was unclear what authority he has to do so
24 May 2020 2:21 PM
China reports 39 new coronavirus cases
All except three are asymptomatic cases, of which 30 arereported from Hubei province and Wuhan
24 May 2020 10:37 AM
Wuhan lab had three live bat coronaviruses
Lab authorities assert none of the strains obtained from bats are a match for the new contagion wreaking chaos across the world
24 May 2020 10:05 AM
With 6,767 corona cases on Sunday, India records highest single-day spike
The total number of COVID-19 cases in the country now is 1,31,868 with 3,867 deaths.
24 May 2020 9:45 AM
Lawsuits demanding better virus protection measures flood US courts
The first wave of lawsuits has come from prisons and immigration centres, demanding parole for prisoners citing poor sanitation
24 May 2020 8:48 AM
Over 130 drugs under trail to treat Covid19, remdesivir leading contender: scientists
Remdesivir is helping people recover faster, and is lowering the death rate among critically ill patients
23 May 2020 5:14 PM
Portuguese resort to test all residents ahead of summer season
Portugal, which so far has nearly 30,000 cases and 1,277 deaths, is slowly easing restrictions from a mid-March lockdown
22 May 2020 6:23 PM
UK confident COVID-19 tracking system will be in place before lockdown eased
Health workers have warned that any failure in tracing people with the virus and their contacts would result in a second deadly wave
22 May 2020 4:23 PM
Economic damage for India from lockdown to be significant, says Moody's
Indian economy already was growing at its slowest pace in six years and with the stimulus measures falling short of expectations
22 May 2020 2:06 PM
Virus hits young people harder in Brazil
A closer look at the data from Brazil raises questions about the widely held idea that COVID-19 is mainly dangerous for the elderly
22 May 2020 12:53 PM
Global coronavirus cases surpass 5 million with over 3,26,000 deaths
Latin America accounted for around a third of the 91,000 cases reported earlier this week
21 May 2020 1:32 PM
Movement of corona positive guest workers a big worry
The major worry in this group is inability to practise social distancing.
21 May 2020 11:05 AM
Japan to light up night skies with fireworks at secret time to cheer citizens
Japan freed 39 of its 47 prefectures from a blanket state of emergency that had lasted most of April, several more could emerge this week
20 May 2020 3:57 PM
Cyclone Amphan: Bangladesh moves Rohingya refugees to island shelters
The cyclone could hamper efforts to control a coronavirus outbreak in the refugee camps, which reported their first infections last week
20 May 2020 2:24 PM
With record jump of 5,611 in single day, Covid-19 cases now stand at 1,06,750
Of the 3,303 fatalities, Maharashtra tops the tally with 1,325 deaths.
20 May 2020 1:48 PM
Brazil suffers record surge in coronavirus deaths
US president Donald Trump indicates he is considering a travel ban from Brazil
20 May 2020 12:24 PM
Guest workers more prone to virus due to malnutrition and low immunity
Most guest workers, with proximity to clusters and bad health conditions, could be asymptomatic carriers of virus
20 May 2020 10:57 AM
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