Australia remains "on track" in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Friday. ....

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is watching the rising border tensions between India and China and has urged both countries not to do anything to heighten it. ....

Despite his tensions with Beijing, US President Donald Trump has offered to "mediate or arbitrate" the border dispute between India and China as the situation heated up with threats from both Beijing and Islamabad. ....

The number of COVID-19 deaths in the US topped 100,000 on Wednesday, reaching 100,047, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University. ....

In what seems to be an absolutely new theory, Chinese scientists have said that the novel coronavirus may not have its origin in the Wuhan seafood market, which allegedly caused the dreaded Covid-19 pandemic. �People's Daily, the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party, revealed on Wednesday that new evidence suggests 'multiple origins of the transmission of the virus'. ....

The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases across the African continent surpassed 115,616 as the death toll from the ongoing pandemic surged to 3,479, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has said. ....

Another 134 COVID-19 patients have died in England, bringing the total coronavirus-related death toll in the country to 37,048, the Department of Health and Social Care has said. ....

Since early March, the pandemic of the novel coronavirus has killed 28,530 people in France, while the numbers of patients in hospitals and in intensive care units continue to drop, according to data released by the Health Ministry. ....

A further 78 coronavirus patients have died in Italy, bringing the country's toll to 32,955, out of total infection cases of 230,555. ....

China on Tuesday downplayed the much-publicised evacuation of its citizens from India in the backdrop of the border tension between both the countries. ....