With a total of 3m30,098 COVID-19 cases, Brazil has surpassed Russia as the country with the second-highest number of infections after the US. ....

The number of coronavirus deaths in the US topped 95,000 on Friday, reaching 95,276, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University. ....

Highlighting its continuing peril around the world even as its spread slows in some areas of Asia and Europe and lockdown restrictions are eased, coronavirus has infected 106,000 people in the last 24 hours - the largest number of cases since its outbreak, the WHO said on Wednesday. ....

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday called for international action to help Africa deal with the coronavirus pandemic. ....

Chinese health authority said on Wednesday that it received reports of five new confirmed COVID-19 cases on the Chinese mainland on Tuesday, of which one was imported and reported in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. ....

President Donald Trump says he began taking hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) "as a frontline defence" after his valet and Vice President Mike Pence's press secretary tested positive for COVID-19. ....

The overall number of global coronavirus cases has increased to over 4.8 million, while the death toll surpassed 323,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University. ....

China's virtual key opinion leader (KOL) Ling has made her world online debut, leading the latest Chinese internet trend among positive influencers and showcasing country's soft power and culture, a new report said. ....

After a UN human rights official criticised BJP Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy, saying that the latters alleged statements about Muslims were "extremely alarming", the BJP lawmaker sought source clarification. ....

Wuhan, the capital of China's Hubei province where the coronavirus pandemic originated last December, has conducted more than 1 million nucleic acid tests over the past week and recorded a significant drop in the incidence of asymptomatic cases, official media reported Tuesday. ....