From medical workers struggling to care for the rising tide of COVID-19 patients to the billions of people told to stay home to slow the pandemic, everyone is waiting for one thing: a vaccine. There is no known treatment for the new coronavirus that emerged in China late last year and has...

Rights campaigners are urging the Russian government to consider releasing some pre-trial detainees and prisoners held in the country's packed jails, warning of the "devastating consequences" of the coronavirus pandemic. More than half a million people are held in Russia's notoriously...

France has seen spiking numbers both in fatalities and infections, but the country continues to wage its own private war against coronavirus epidemic. Tuesday marks the second wave of confinement in France, a measure President Emmanuel Macron put in place on March 17 to curb the spread of...

With a record 849 deaths in one day, coronavirus has now killed a total of 8,189 people in Spain, according to data released by the Spanish Health Ministry on Tuesday. In total, 49,243 people have been hospitalized due to COVID-19 in Spain and nearly 20,000 people have recovered. The...

Italy marked a minute of silence and flew flags at half mast Tuesday to mourn the 11,591 people who have died from the coronavirus pandemic that has drastically altered life in the Mediterranean country. The nation of 60 million people has recorded nearly a third of all fatalities caused by...

 Shortages of protective health gear in India are forcing some doctors to use raincoats and motorbike helmets while fighting the coronavirus, exposing the weak state of the public health system ahead of an anticipated surge in COVID-19 cases. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government...

 Dubai will inject funding into state-owned Emirates, one of the world's biggest long-haul carriers, the crown prince said Tuesday, as the government joined others in offering financial aid to airlines. Several states have stepped in to help airlines hammered by the coronavirus...

European nations have delivered medical goods to Iran in the first transaction under the Instex mechanism set up to evade American sanctions on Tehran, the German foreign ministry said Tuesday. "France, Germany and the United Kingdom confirm that Instex has successfully concluded its first...

Middle-aged people, and not just the elderly, have a dramatically higher risk of dying or developing serious illness from COVID-19, new research from Britain showed Tuesday. The findings came in a new comprehensive analysis of virus cases in mainland China. Researchers from Britain...

The number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus in Germany has risen to 61,913 and 583 people have died of the disease, statistics from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases showed on Tuesday. Cases rose by 4,615 compared with the previous day while the death toll climbed...

The British police have done a good job in the coronavirus crisis though there may be some individual instances of some officers going a little too far in enforcing a lockdown, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said on Tuesday. “The police are doing a difficult job and they are doing it...

Mainland China reported on Tuesday a rise in new confirmed coronavirus cases, reversing four days of declines, due to an uptick in infections involving travellers arriving from overseas. Mainland China had 48 new cases on Monday, the National Health Commission said in a statement, up from...

The coronavirus epidemic is “far from over” in the Asia-Pacific region, and current measures to curb the spread of the virus are buying time for countries to prepare for large-scale community transmissions, a WHO official said on Tuesday. Even with all the measures, the risk of transmission...

The Turkish economy was healing after a recession when the new coronavirus struck, leaving Ankara scrambling to contain the damage with stimulus measures worth billions and facing demands to do much more. The death toll in Turkey is 168 with 10,827 recorded cases of the virus but the fear...

New York's governor issued an urgent appeal for medical volunteers Monday amid a “staggering” number of deaths from the coronavirus, as he and health officials warned that the crisis unfolding in New York City is just a preview of what other communities across the U.S. could soon face....

The United States is expected to allow Russian, Chinese and European companies to continue their work at Iranian nuclear sites to make it harder for Tehran to develop nuclear weapons, four sources familiar with the matter said on Monday. The sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity and...

Chancellor Angela Merkel's third coronavirus test has come back negative but the German leader will stay in home quarantine for the coming days, her spokesman said Monday. Merkel, 65, has been in self-isolation at her Berlin flat for just over a week, after learning on March 22 that a...

Hollywood megastar Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson are back home in Los Angeles after two weeks in hospital and self-isolation in Australia where they contracted the coronavirus. "Hey, Folks... We're home now and, like the rest of America, we carry on with sheltering in place and social...

Most Israeli Arabs and Palestinians commemorated the so-called Land Day from inside their homes for the first time Monday, in a bid to stop the spread of the coronavirus. The annual event usually sees thousands of Israeli Arabs and Palestinians take to the streets in demonstrations against...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tested negative for the coronavirus Monday after a parliamentary aide was confirmed to be carrying the virus, though the 70-year-old leader would remain in isolation, a spokesman said. Spokesman Ofir Gendelman said on Twitter that Netanyahu, his...