The chairman of the US House of Representatives Armed Services Committee reiterated his call on Tuesday (Apr 7) for the removal of Acting Navy Secreta...

The head of a top Russian research centre told President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday that his lab was ready to start human trials of experimental corona...

In the Swiss Army's biggest call-up since World War II, thousands of soldiers have been sent to support health workers in the fight against the corona...

A total of 551 vehicles were impounded and 1048 people were arrested during the past 24 hours for violating the curfew order, the Public Security Dire...

Vietnam donated 550,000 face masks to five European countries on Tuesday to support their fight against the coronavirus that has killed more than 75,0...

India announced on Tuesday (Apr 7) a partial lifting of a fresh export ban on a malaria drug seen as a potential COVID-19 treatment, after US Presiden...

While the world waits for a coronavirus vaccine, medicines used to deal with the symptoms of the disease are increasingly in critically short supply i...

Indonesia approved on Tuesday (Apr 7) a request by the Jakarta administration to impose further large-scale social restrictions on the capital, the ep...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday (Apr 7) approved the extension of lockdown and home quarantine measures covering more than half of the...

Refrigerator trucks parked outside hospital doors, overwhelmed undertakers, and talk about temporary burials in parks: America's coronavirus epicentre...

Pregnant with twins, Ainhoa Martinez knows she probably should be home being careful rather than putting herself at risk by serving the public every d...

Sleeping shoulder-to-shoulder on the floor of a crumbling, windowless room, prisoners in Indonesia fear an outbreak of the deadly coronavirus inside i...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday (Apr 7) declared a state of emergency to fight new COVID-19 infections in major population centres and u...

Riot police wielding batons used force to break up a protest by Pakistani doctors and medical staff against a lack of gear to protect against coronavi...

Indonesia announced its biggest daily increase in novel coronavirus cases on Monday (Apr 6) and a medical association said 24 doctors had now died aft...

A major private hospital in Mumbai was shut to new patients and declared a COVID-19 containment zone on Monday (Apr 6) after 26 nurses and three docto...