(Xinhua) - Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, spoke over phone on Thursday night, reaffirming mutual support in the fight against COVID-19 and rejecting…

(BBC) - The Chinese city of Wuhan, where the coronavirus originated last year, has raised its official Covid-19 death toll by 50%, adding 1,290 fatalities. Wuhan officials attributed the new…

Figures from the Department of Health and each home nation do not include deaths in care homes, hospices and other settings outside hospital, masking the UK's true coronavirus death toll. The latest…

(CNA) - Pulling funding from the World Health Organization (WHO) is a dangerous and nonsensical move when the world is facing the health crisis brought by the COVID-19 disease pandemic, Melinda…

(Nikkei) - Amid the coronavirus pandemic, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has proposed building an economy that is less dependent on one country, China, so that the nation can better avoid…

(Forbes) - A massive amount of data about the pandemic is generated every day. Although organizations such as WHO, CDC, Johns Hopkins University, and Worldometers are disseminating important…

Hundreds of thousands of children could die this year due to the global economic downturn sparked by the coronavirus pandemic and tens of millions more could fall into extreme poverty as a result…

“If we cede the playing field, obviously China is going to fill in that space” (Time) - When he accused the World Health Organization (WHO) of going soft on China over the COVID-19 pandemic and…

(Sky News) - The number of coronavirus patients who have died in UK hospitals has gone past 13,000 after another 861 deaths. The Department of Health announced the increase, which takes the…

(Reuters) - India memfailkan tuduhan homisid salah tidak menyamai pembunuhan terhadap ketua kumpulan Islam kerana menganjurkan suatu himpunan bulan lepas yang menurut pihak berkuasa membawa kepada…

(ST) - By halting funding to the World Health Organisation (WHO), the United States is only trying to divert attention from its failure to handle its domestic coronavirus epidemic, China's top…

(MalayMail) - Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah has been named among the “top doctors” in the world, thanks to his straightforward approach in handling the outbreak in the…

(Reuters) - Britain was initially too slow to respond to the novel coronavirus outbreak and did not learn quickly enough from other countries, opposition Labour Party leader Keir Starmer said on…

With no deaths reported and the number of confirmed cases in the mere hundreds, Vietnam's response to the pandemic appears to be working. Elsewhere, governments enforced lockdowns to cope with…

(NST) -African countries are seething over accounts that Africans are battling stigma and discrimination in China over the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, apparently linked to a cluster of cases in…

The team said it was highly unlikely that immunity will be strong enough and last long enough that Covid-19 will die out after an initial wave, as was the case with the SARS outbreak of 2002-2003.…

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday cut off funding to the World Health Organization, accusing the UN body of mishandling the coronavirus crisis as governments grapple with how and when to get…

(CNN) - A third of NHS staff and key workers who have been tested for coronavirus in the UK have returned positive results, new British government data shows. According to figures released…

(Bloomberg) - China has started the process of potentially merging its two biggest brokerage firms to create a company that can better compete with the global investment banks as the country opens…

President Trump hurls insults at reporters and plays a video singing his praises over the handling of the crisis. (Sky News) - Donald Trump has used a daily White House COVID-19 news conference to…

Chinese customs officials, facing accusations from Europe that some medical supplies have been defective, say they will inspect every shipment. (NYT) - Chinese officials have begun inspecting every…

Researchers from Cambridge, UK, and Germany have reconstructed the early "evolutionary paths" of COVID-19 in humans -- as infection spread from Wuhan out to Europe and North America -- using genetic…

(FMT) - President Donald Trump startled White House reporters on Monday by airing a video at his daily coronavirus briefing that sounded like a campaign reelection advert. Despite a US death…

Just when you were wondering why the world’s biggest tech companies weren’t doing more to fight the coronavirus pandemic, Apple and Google made a big announcement: They are joining forces to build…

(CNA) - The British government warned on Monday (Apr 13) it would not be lifting a nationwide lockdown anytime soon as the country remains in the grip of a coronavirus outbreak that has claimed…

(CNA) - French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday (Apr 13) announced he was extending a virtual lockdown to curb the coronavirus outbreak until May 11, adding that progress had been made but the…

(CNA) - Thailand’s job losses may reach 10 million if the coronavirus outbreak continues for a few months, a business advisory council said on Monday (Apr 13). Southeast Asia’s second-largest…

Bishop Gerald Glenn told a congregation in March that 'god is larger than this dreaded virus' last month, but died from the disease in hospital on Saturday night (Mirror) - A pastor has died from…

As the capital’s Victoria Park reopens its gates after two weeks, the rules on exercise and social distancing remain blurred (The Guardian) - As temperatures nudged into the 20s yesterday on a…

(FMT) - Elderly people may have to be kept isolated until the end of the year to protect them from the coronavirus, EU chief Ursula von der Leyen said in comments published Sunday. “Without a…