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World consumption of the personal protective equipment is estimated to jump more than 11% to 330 billion pieces this year.

February 2020 was the hottest month since records began in 1900, Terry Hughes, Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University, said.

The U.S. drugmaker is yet to set a price for the drug that is currently being administered intravenously in hospitals.

Lam, speaking during a trip to Beijing to discuss the new security law, was flanked by Hong Kong's justice secretary Teresa Cheng, its security secretary John Lee and its police chief Chris Tang.

The Democratic-led House and Republican-controlled Senate passed legislation nearly unanimously calling for sanctions against those responsible for repression in China's Xinjiang province, after U.N. estimates that over 1 million Muslims have been detaine...

Trump said he would postpone a G7 summit he had hoped to host next month until September or later and expand the list of invitees to include Australia, Russia, South Korea and India.

Under the contract, Emergent will commit its manufacturing facilities, valued at $542.7 million, to produce COVID-19 vaccine candidates through 2021.

Since the start of the novel coronavirus pandemic 1,016,828 people have been infected, with 514,849 cases recorded in Brazil.

Mayor Muriel Bowser said in a statement that the curfew would last from 11:00 pm until 6:00 am on Monday.

Donald Trump's tweet on Sunday is not the first time the president has described the anti-fascist group Antifa as a terrorist organisation. Other conservative politicians have made similar statements.

The scientists from Colorado State University (CSU) in the US, said it is still unknown if the novel coronavirus, or SARS-CoV-2, behind the COVID-19 pandemic, can be transmitted by blood transfusion.

Russia has the world's third-highest toll of coronavirus infections and Kremlin officials have said the nation's researchers are working on almost 50 different vaccine projects.

The White House has said it is putting the huge diplomatic gathering back on the agenda as a 'show of strength; when world economies are gradually reemerging from shutdowns.

Other migrants in critical condition were rushed to clinics in Tripoli, said the International Organization for Migration, adding that some appeared to be victims of abuse.

The two-week summit - expected to be the biggest ever held in Britain - had been expected to trigger fresh pledges from hundreds of world leaders to stick to their promise under the Paris agreement on climate change and act to avert catastrophic global wa...

These are the front lines of an unprecedented campaign to screen virtually all 11 million people in Wuhan, the central Chinese city where the coronavirus pandemic began. Nearly two weeks in, the government is getting close to reaching its goal, with 6.5 m...