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A man waring a face mask passes by notices at the entrance of a temporary closed dance club in Seoul, South Korea. (AP)

South Korea reports highest rise in virus cases in a month after...

PM says health officials are struggling to trace "thousands of people" who went to clubs and bars once the country...

11 May 2020 8:54 AM IST

President Donald Trump (left) passes Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (AP)

Evidence shows White House buried CDC report

The report contains detailed advice from the nation's top disease control experts for reopening communities during the...

9 May 2020 11:40 AM IST

A grandchild gives a kiss to his grand-father, suspected of being infected with the novel coronavirus, as he is evacuated to a hospital by the Protection Civile Paris Seine first aid workers, from his home in Paris. (AFP)

France prepares to lift lockdown, red zone Paris under watch

Prime minister Edouard Philippe opine that enough progress had been made in curbing the virus and supporting hospitals

8 May 2020 12:57 PM IST

Stranded Australian citizens wait in a queue to board a flight back to their country. (AP)

Australia readies to ease COVID-19 restrictions

Australia has fewer than 800 people still sick with COVID-19, and new cases have dropped below 20 each day

8 May 2020 11:13 AM IST

Medical workers take in patients outside a special coronavirus area at Maimonides Medical Center in the Borough Park neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (AFP)

Experts fear second wave of virus as Europe, US relax lockdown curbs

Cases have continued to rise steadily in places such as US's Iowa and Missouri since the governors began reopening

7 May 2020 2:04 PM IST

A woman wearing a face mask as a precaution walks past a shop window on Oxford Street in London. (AFP)

Johnson readies plan to ease lockdown in UK with new office guidance

A total of 28,446 people have now died in Britain, almost on a par with Italy, Europe's worst affected country

4 May 2020 3:33 PM IST

A Health Care Worker walks across the parking lot at the Pro Health Urgent Care coronavirus testing site in Wantagh, New York. (AFP)

Countries must prepare for virus resurgence after easing lockdown: WHO

WHO director-general defended of his and the WHO's timely actions in declaring the new coronavirus an international...

2 May 2020 10:12 AM IST

Labourers take rest in a closed market at Khari Baowli, during COVID-19 lockdown in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

Bengal extends COVID curbs till Aug 15, allows govt programmes at...

Buses, taxis, autorickshaws have been permitted to operate with 50 per cent capacity

29 July 2021 1:11 PM IST

Labourers sort onions after harvesting at a field during a nationwide lockdown imposed in the wake of coronavirus pandemic, in Patna. PTI photo

Relaxing lockdown curbs depends on virus situation: Javadekar

Our policy is stay wherever you are and help each other, Javadekar said

19 April 2020 4:38 PM IST

A motorist wearing a mask rides along a road during the nationwide lockdown, imposed in wake of the coronavirus pandemic, in Kolkata. PTI Photo

In a bid to boost economy, Centre likely to exempt certain sectors...

Two separate circulars were issued to state governments and UTs by the Union home ministry and industries and commerce...

14 April 2020 11:28 AM IST

Migrant workers and stranded people sleep in the forecourt of the Secunderabad railway station. (DC Photo: Deepak Deshpande)

Migrants can soon go home, but conditions apply

But they will be tested, registered, tracked and isolated

30 April 2020 12:33 AM IST