American Physicians of Indian-Origin President Dr Suresh Reddy applauded the hundreds of thousands of Indian-origin medical personnel bravely fighting against the virus. “The entire medical fraternity has become the Army right now, fighting the coronavirus," Reddy told PTI in an interview here. The fight against the virus will be a long one, he said.
As the world fights the coronavirus pandemic together, every country is improvising novel strategies as it faces new challenges. While most nations have decided to curb the movement of its people and sanctioned lockdowns, Sweden is going against the tide, and yet showing effective results.
"This is not a time for ideology and orthodoxy. This is a time to be bold. A time for courage," said Rishi Sunak, the UK's Indian-origin finance minister, as he summed up the British government's approach towards the daunting economic fightback.
Natural disasters can be especially harmful for children. But every parent heaved a sigh of relief when research found that the coronavirus doesnt put children at much risk. Regardless, these times can have long-lasting consequences for kids.
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The United Kingdom is on course to be among the worst hit European states with more than 20,732 hospital deaths reported as of Saturday. But the most stringent lockdown in peacetime history has left the economy facing possibly the deepest recession in three centuries and the biggest debt splurge since World War Two.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is "alive and well", a top security adviser to the South's President Moon Jae-in said, downplaying rumours over Kim's health following his absence from a key anniversary.
Tens of thousands of people congregated at beaches in Southern California over the weekend amid a heat wave and pandemic, with many ignoring the state and White House's guidelines on social distancing.Orange County's Board of Supervisors voted earlier this week to open some beaches and outdoor areas in preparation for the first heat wave of 2020.
The surreptitious and the invisible are defining the human landscape during these weeks in ways we are only barely beginning to understand. There is, of course, a fast-moving and elusive new virus. But the attitudes and fears that have emerged in the battle against it can be equally unsettling.
The last COVID-19 patient in Wuhan has been discharged and the hospitals in the epicentre of the global coronavirus pandemic in the central Chinese city have no coronavirus cases for the first time after more than three months of arduous battle against the deadly virus that infected over 80,000 people on the mainland, health officials said.
Green activists placed rows of boots and shoes in a Zurich square to take the place of protesters who normally come out in person to demand action on climate change.
Of all the family members who could eventually take the reins from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, his sister - Kim Yo Jong - seems like the obvious choice.The biggest potential hang-up? She’s a woman in a society rigidly controlled by men.
Every parent is familiar with the day-to-day perils of the Covid-19 outbreak, with playgrounds closed, social interaction limited and screen time all too tempting. But the most consequential effects of this crisis are likely to come from two areas: health and education. Besides, natural disasters tend to be especially harmful for children’s health.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has returned to Downing Street, a month after being diagnosed with the deadly coronavirus, to take charge of the UK's response to the pandemic outbreak in the country that has claimed the lives of over 20,000 people.
On Saturday, the Wall Street Journal and Politico reported that the Trump administration was considering replacing Azar, because of early missteps in the handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
A top security adviser to the South's President Moon Jae-in said said that Kim had been staying in Wonsan -- a resort town in the country's east -- since April 13, adding: "No suspicious movements have so far been detected."
The country now has an overall death toll of 54,841, with 964,937 confirmed infections, according to a tally by the Baltimore-based institution at 8:30 pm (0030 GMT Monday).
The restart is crucial to pull the European economy out of a tailspin that’s forced governments to pledge hundreds of billions of euros to keep companies afloat. Measures of private-sector business activity plummeted to an all-time low in April, with record job cuts.
Kim Yo Jong, in her early 30s, has been by her brother’s side at summits with US President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping. She’s a woman in a society rigidly controlled by men. While many North Korea watchers say bloodline is more important than gender, others are skeptical.
The latest developments shed little immediate light about 36-year-old North Korea ruler, Kim Jong Un, who US officials said they were told had been in critical condition after cardiovascular surgery.
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab told Sky News that Johnson would be back in his Downing Street office on Monday after recovering from the virus and was in “good spirits” and “raring to go”.
A study by experts at Hong Kong University, published in The Lancet, suggested more than 232,000 people may have tested positive - four times higher than official figures - in the country’s first wave of infections, according to the Evening Standard.
Italy's first homegrown case was recorded Feb 21, at a time when the World Health Organisation was still insisting the virus was "containable" and not nearly as infectious as the flu.
Train, bus and taxi services also remain suspended and people employed in the state sector will continue working from home, the spokesman told a news conference broadcast on state television.
South Korean and Chinese officials have publicly cast doubt on reports that Kim was gravely ill following a cardiovascular procedure, after his absence from a key state anniversary event on April 15 triggered speculation about his health.
Outside those exceptional areas, curfews will be eased between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. (0600-1400 GMT) effective Sunday until May 13. The Muslim fasting month of Ramadan began on Friday.
A new hospital for patients with the coronavirus infection has been built within 13 days in the capital of Kazakhstan, Nur-Sultan. It was assembled out of modular blocks using the technologies for constructing prefabricated buildings.
As Italy prepares to emerge from the West's first and most extensive coronavirus lockdown, it is increasingly clear that something went terribly wrong in Lombardy, the hardest-hit region in Europe's hardest-hit country.
US President Donald Trump has said that his daily coronavirus press briefings are not worth his "time and effort" as the "lamestream" media asks nothing but "hostile" questions, days after he faced intense rebuke for suggesting the possibility of treating COVID-19 patients by UV light or disinfectant injections.
When the Japanese government declared an emergency to curb the spread of the coronavirus earlier this month and asked people to work from home, crowds rushed to electronics stores. So much for social distancing.
India - the biggest in the 8-member SAARC grouping - responded by unveiling a Rs 1.7 lakh crore ($22.6 billion) economic stimulus plan, providing direct cash transfer to poor senior citizens and women and free foodgrain and cooking gas to give relief to millions hit by the lockdown.
"... and that they (China) failed to comply with their most fundamental obligations as a nation, and importantly, too, failed to comply with the international health regulations of the World Health Organization and then did a lot of things – and we can talk about them at great length – to cover that up,” Pompeo accused
Beijing has banned "uncivilised" behaviour such as not covering the mouth and nose when coughing or sneezing, the city government said on Sunday, in a new set of regulations to improve public hygiene amid the coronavirus outbreak.
The states of Georgia, Oklahoma and Alaska started loosening restrictions on businesses despite warnings from experts that such steps might be premature.
By that evening, first-time prescriptions of the drugs - chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine - flooded into retail pharmacies at more than 46 times the rate of the average weekday, according to a New York Times analysis of prescription data, the report said.
On Thursday the US leader stunned viewers by saying doctors might treat people infected with the coronavirus by shining ultraviolet light inside their bodies, or with injections of household disinfectant.
The country now has an overall death toll of 53,511, with 936,293 confirmed infections, according to a tally by the Baltimore-based university at 8:30 pm (0030 GMT Sunday).
The monitoring project, 38 North, said in its report on Saturday that the train was parked at the "leadership station" in Wonsan on April 21 and April 23. The station is reserved for the use of the Kim family, it said.
Health workers have complained for weeks that the country's hospitals are suffering chronic shortages of safety gear, prompting the arrest of more than 50 doctors who called for more supplies in the city of Quetta earlier this month.
COVID-19 has sparked both a public health emergency and an economic shock in South Asia. As of 24 April, South Asia accounted for 1.5 per cent of global cases, while the US accounted for 32 per cent, and the EU for 34 per cent.
In a statement, the United Nations agency warned against issuing "immunity passports" or "risk-free certificates" to people who have been infected, saying the practice may actually increase the risk of spread as they may ignore standard advice.
Saudi Arabia has abolished flogging as a punishment, the supreme court announced, hailing the latest in a series of "human rights advances" made by the king and his powerful son.
In Spain, one of the hardest-hit countries in the pandemic, the coronavirus spread quickly and widely without being detected, especially among the elderly.
Britain has the fifth highest official coronavirus death toll in the world, after the United States, Italy, Spain and France. Scientists have said that the death rate will start to decline quickly only in another couple of weeks.
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