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The donation aimed to support the global fight against COVID-19, in particular strengthening health systems in developing countries, a spokeswoman said, adding that China had already donated $20 million to the WHO on March 11.

Signs of blood thickening and clotting were being detected in different organs of coronavirus patients by doctors from different specialties.

Singapore has further closed businesses after Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Tuesday extended the "circuit breaker" until June 1 to control the spread of the deadly disease.

The latest fatalities in the past 24 hours brought the total to 5,297, in one of the world's deadliest outbreaks.

These dormitories, in areas tourists seldom visit, account for more than 75 per cent of the country's total infections after the city-state recorded its biggest jump in new cases on Monday. Nineteen dormitories have been quarantined so far, according to g...

An order issued by the Department of Health and Human Services says the policy should be kept in place for another 30 days to help reduce the spread of the virus.

Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday urged Germans to stay disciplined in fighting the coronavirus pandemic as the country began easing some curbs.

When Conte and Andrea leave home, each wears a mask and disposable gloves. She takes no chances even though she has repeatedly tested negative for the virus.

Bolsonaro has constantly criticized partial quarantine measures adopted by governors, including those in charge Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, to halt the spread of the coronavirus.

The vast majority of the new cases are migrant workers living in dormitories and 25 are permanent residents, the health ministry said in a statement on Sunday.

Social distancing for everyone helps with that problem, as would masks, which could benefit from the kind of innovation and promotion applied to condoms, David O’Connor, who studies viral disease at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, wrote in an email.

To make UBI work, the experts said, will require fair taxation and 'countries will have to work together, exchanging data across borders, to stop people and corporations from evading taxes'.

French navy commander sought to increase physical distance among the crew on the vessel but said such preventive measures were difficult to apply on a combat vessel.

According to Swiss monitor IQAir, Kiev had the highest level of air contamination of major world cities, ahead of Hangzhou, Chongqing and Shanghai in China.

In India, daily new cases have risen consistently in terms of absolute numbers over the past couple of weeks even as recoveries have remained low in comparison. But the rate of growth of cumulative cases has witnessed a slight decline over the past week.

According to the Pew Research Center, 65 percent said Trump was tardy in responding when cases of the COVID-19 illness were first reported in other countries.