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…

(ST) - Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has agreed with a plan to resume the country's rice export after the government announced an export ban in March to ensure national food security…

The revelation came as Assange's partner said his "life is on the brink" in jail and she does not think he would survive COVID-19. (Sky News) - Julian Assange secretly fathered two children while…

(BBC) - Lifting coronavirus lockdown measures too early could spark a "deadly resurgence" in infections, the World Health Organization chief has warned. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said…

(TheSunDaily) - A new study examining air samples from hospital wards with Covid-19 patients has found the virus can travel up to 13 feet (four meters) - twice the distance current guidelines say…

(NST) -The US death toll in the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak topped 20,000 on Saturday, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University. The outbreak has now claimed the lives of at…

(Bangkok Post) - The Finance Ministry said it will explore domestic and foreign funding options for planned borrowing of 1 trillion baht to finance a major economic stimulus programme. The debt…

(Jakarta Globe) - The government has extended its social aid programs to offer more financial and food assistance to help Indonesia's most vulnerable during the peak of the coronavirus epidemic…

(Bloomberg) - In January, before Covid-19 had become a global pandemic, a doctor from Tennessee told me something wise. “It’s all about the virus,” said Dr. Mark Denison, director of the division…

(FMT) - Early voting in South Korea’s parliamentary election kicked off on Friday, with coronavirus patients casting ballots at designated stations and candidates adopting new ways of campaigning…

More New Yorkers are turning to cycling to minimize their coronavirus exposure  (AFP) - The United States on Friday become the first country to record more than 2,000 coronavirus deaths in one day,…

The choices European leaders are making aren’t solely based on health concerns. They’re based on political ones. “All crises are political at heart,” the University of Leiden’s Boin told me.…

For second week running, more than 6 million people filed for unemployment benefits as coronavirus ravages US economy. (Reuters) - The number of people in the United States filing for unemployment…

(FMT) - An Islamic missionary movement is at the centre of a growing controversy in South Asia after it repeatedly held massive gatherings despite warnings about the coronavirus. Hundreds of…

(Reuters) - The South Korean city of Daegu, which endured the first large coronavirus outbreak outside of China, on Friday reported zero new cases for the first time since late February, as new…

(EU Observer) - The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, warned on Tuesday (24 March) that cybercrime in the EU has increased due to the coronavirus outbreak.…

(BBC) - Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been moved out of intensive care but remains in hospital, Downing Street has said. Mr Johnson has been receiving treatment for coronavirus at St Thomas'…

(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has removed from its website highly unusual guidance informing doctors on how to prescribe hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, drugs…

(Reuters) - The head of the World Health Organization gave a strident defence of his agency’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic on Wednesday, in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s…

(Sky News) - Another 938 coronavirus patients have died in the UK, taking the total to 7,097. In England, there have been 828 more deaths, with the total now 6,483. The latest figures,…

(Reuters) - Britain is nowhere near lifting the lockdown measures it put in place to tackle the spread of the coronavirus as the peak is still more than a week away, London Mayor Sadiq Khan said…

(FMT) - US Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly resigned Tuesday over his mishandling of an outbreak of the coronavirus on the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier, Defence Secretary Mark Esper…

(Xinhua) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday declared a month-long state of emergency for seven prefectures in an effort to curb the COVID-19 outbreak. Apart from Tokyo and Osaka,…

(TheStar) - US President Donald Trump on Tuesday (April 7) threatened to cut US funding to the World Health Organisation (WHO), accusing it of bias toward China during the Covid-19 pandemic.…

(Reuters) - Riot police wielding batons used force to break up a protest by Pakistani doctors and medical staff against a lack of gear to protect against coronavirus, arresting dozens of…

(Xinhua) - Vietnamese researchers have found that the coronavirus causing the COVID-19 pandemic had evolved and divided into two different groups in the country, daily newspaper Vietnam News…

(CNN) - Large numbers of people flocked to popular tourists sites and major cities across China over the country's holiday weekend, despite warnings from health authorities that the risk posed by…