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Friday’s illustration is part of Google’s doodle 'Thank You Coronavirus Helpers' series to recognise the unsung heroes during the pandemic: the essential service providers.

They were investigating the deaths of "around 180 people" at Milan's Pio Albergo Trivulzio care home since Italy's COVID-19 outbreak, AGI news agency said.

Most of the state’s nursing homes have reported at least one case of the coronavirus, which as of Wednesday had infected 6,815 patients of long-term care facilities in New Jersey.

Many US states have added to the lack of transparency by releasing only totals of infections and deaths and not details about specific outbreaks.

The Florida pair share a home, a profession and, now, a mission — shouldering the high-risk duty of placing breathing tubes in surgery patients amid the coronavirus outbreak.

Health workers in the Japansese city of Osaka are resorting to wearing garbage bags over their scrubs to protect against coronavirus.

Rishi Sunak, the son-in-law of Infosys chief Narayana Murthy, said it is still important that the UK government is honest with people about what is happening with the economy.

The number of officially confirmed cases climbed to 162,488, the third highest global tally behind those of the United States and Spain.

More than a third of medical staff responding to COVID-19 during its peak in China may have suffered from insomnia, according to a study which suggests that the pandemic is not just a physical health threat, but may also be triggering a mental health epid...

Australia and New Zealand on Tuesday brushed aside calls for an easing of tough restrictions on travel and public gatherings despite their success in curbing the spread of COVID-19.

Morocco imposed a public health state of emergency on March 19, confining everyone to their homes except those with a permit to be out for work.

OPEC+ nations had outlined plans to cut output by more than a fifth, or by 10 million barrels per day, but Mexico balked at the production cuts it was asked to make, delaying the signing of a final deal.

The nation-wide breakdown of the patients showed that Punjab has 2,464 cases, Sindh 1,411, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa 697, Balochistan 228, Gilgit-Baltistan 216, Islamabad 119 and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir 35.

Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, was declared winner of the Alaska primary after the state shifted to postal voting due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The city that proudly never sleeps has seen more than 90,000 of its residents test positive for the potentially fatal coronavirus, whose rapid spread has severely restricted public life.

Her recovery from the disease that is killing chiefly the old offered some hope to health workers at Istanbul's Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty hospital as they battle the outbreak.