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Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday vowed Britain will 'massively increase testing' for coronavirus in the upcoming week as UK recorded over 500 fatalities for a second consecutive day.

Men will only be allowed to leave their homes on Mondays, Wednesday and Fridays, while women are authorized to step outdoors on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.

While British American Tobacco is conducting a pre-clinical testing of a plant-based vaccine, cigarette company Philip Morris said its partially-owned Canadian unit Medicago is looking to start human trials for a possible vaccine this summer.

The US death toll is lower than those of Italy and Spain but above the 3,316 recorded for China, where the pandemic first emerged in December.

The new rules outlined in a memo are required for ships in the district that covers Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and Puerto Rico. They also come with a stiff warning: Any foreign-flagged vessels “that loiter beyond US territorial seas" should try firs...

The repatriation from India is part of the massive effort being undertaken by the US for its citizens from across the world. So far, the US has repatriated over 30,000 citizens from over 60 countries on more than 350 flights.

There are concerns that the end of lockdowns in China will see thousands of infectious people move back into daily life without knowing they carry coronavirus.

J&J also committed more than $1 billion of investment along with US agency Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) to co-fund vaccine research, expanding a previous collaboration.

The number of coronavirus cases in Pakistan reached 1,664 while the death toll stood at 18, health officials said on Monday, underlining that local transmission of the deadly COVID-19 is increasing.

The violence comes even as Afghan President Ashraf Ghani last week announced his 21-member team to negotiate peace with the Taliban, only to have his political opponent, Abdullah Abdullah, reject it as not inclusive enough.

The prayer meeting kicked off the biggest cluster of COVID-19 in France -- one of northern Europe's hardest-hit countries -- to date, local government said.

Mortgage firms are bracing for a wave of missed payments starting April 1 as borrowers lose their jobs.

North Korea’s fear of coronavirus infection appears to have achieved what Trump’s “maximum pressure” campaign against North Korean nuclear and missile work has not

The central health authorities in China first learned about the coronavirus outbreak not from the reporting system but after unknown whistleblowers leaked two internal documents online.

Health experts say prisons and jails are considered a potential epicenter for America’s coronavirus pandemic.

Video footage shared online showed rows of police armed with riot shields holding back the crowds, while members of the public could be seen damaging and even overturning police vehicles.