After shares of pharmaceutical major Gilead Sciences surged following a media report that the company's antiviral drug remdesivir showed promise in treating coronavirus patients in a "closely watched clinical trial", analysts at Robert W. Baird & Co. said that the results need to be critically looked into. ....

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday acknowledged Fox News report that the novel coronavirus (nCoV) may have been accidentally leaked by an intern working at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China. ....

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday that Africa could become the next epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic as there was a sharp rise in the numver of COVID-19 cases in the past week. ....

As coronavirus continues to spread across the US, President Donald Trump has given governors guidance on reopening state economies in the coming months. ....

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has extended till May 15 the shutdown in the state that is the epicentre of the coronaviruspandemic with 223,231 cases and 14,198 deaths. ....

The coronavirus pandemic has claimed 22,170 lives in locked-down Italy, bringing the total number of cases, including fatalities and recoveries, so far to 168,941, according to the latest data released by the country's Civil Protection Department. ....

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has extended till May 15 the shutdown in the state that is the epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic with 223,231 cases and 14,198 deaths. ....

As the number of coronavirus cases have continued to surge in Japan, Prime Minster Shinzo Abe has decided to expand the state of emergency from just seven of the country's 47 prefectures, to the whole nation. ....

An Australian company has called out for volunteers in the country's first human trial of a COVID-19 vaccine, expected to take place in coming weeks. ....

Around 58 per cent of Pakistan total coronavirus cases are locally transmitted, data released by the National Command and Operation Centre revealed on Thursday. ....