World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus highlighted the importance of stronger health systems and the investment in health for all people. ....

US President Donald Trump has said that he "could cut off the whole relationship" with China, in one of his strongest comments against Beijing in the wake of the Asian giant's handling of the coronavirus pandemic, the media reported. ....

Russia has confirmed 10,598 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, raising its total tally to 262,843, the second highest in the world, according to the country's coronavirus response centre on Friday. ....

London could be "coronavirus free" by June, as new modelling has suggested that the UK capital was recording only 24 new cases a day, according to an analysis by the Cambridge University and Public Health England published on Friday. ....

Wuhan, the capital of China's Hubei province where the COVID-19 pandemic originated last December, will arrange nucleic acid tests for all residents who have not been tested before, in order to better know the number of asymptomatic cases of the novel coronavirus. ....

USA President Donald Trump has questioned the assessment of Anthony Fauci, a top infectious disease expert, on reopening the country's schools, a day after latter pleaded for caution in doing so. ....

The Bangladesh government has planned to extend the ongoing lockdown to May 30 as the daily rate of new coronavirus cases has continued to surge, it was reported. ....

Pakistan has reported a total of 34,337 COVID-19 cases, with 12,610 in Sindh, 5,021 in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, 2,158 in Balochistan, 475 in Gilgit-Baltistan and 759 in Islamabad, a health official said on Wednesday. ....

Pakistan has reported a total of 34,337 coronavirus cases, with 12,610 in Sindh, 5,021 in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, 2,158 in Balochistan, 475 in Gilgit-Baltistan and 759 in Islamabad, a health official said on Wednesday. ....

America's top infectious diseases expert Dr. Anthony Fauci cautioned on Tuesday that it would be a "bridge too far" to think that COVID-19 treatment or vaccines would be ready in time for the Fall 2020 reopening of schools, urged everyone to be extremely careful with children and warned of "really serious" consequences if states lift stay-at-home orders too quickly, even as President Donald Trump pushes them to act against the backdrop of a free-falling economy. ....