DR Congo President Felix Tshisekedi has lifted a health emergency over the coronavirus outbreak and ordered a reopening in three stages of business activities, schools and borders. The vast country of more than 80 million people has recorded 8,534 infections including 196 deaths since March 10....
Pakistanis with COVID-19 are risking their lives and navigating a shady black market to get blood plasma transfusions, despite scant medical proof about the remedy's effectiveness. Pakistan has declared about 260,000 cases of coronavirus and some 5,500 deaths (AFP Photo/Arif ALI) Convalescent...
DAVAO CITY - The Department of Health (DOH) in Davao said one out of seven coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients in the region was a health worker. Based on Davao Region’s COVID-19 Weekly Situationer released on Wednesday, the region has already recorded 993 confirmed cases, and 139 of which...
CEBU CITY – Twenty-one Cebu City barangays with the most number of active coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases are facing granular lockdown once an executive order is issued by Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella, and confirmed by the regional Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF), according to...
Australia reported a record 501 new coronavirus infections Wednesday, nearly four months after the pandemic supposedly peaked in the country. A medical worker (center L) speaks to people queueing outside a COVID-19 coronavirus testing venue at The Royal Melbourne Hospital in Melbourne on July 16,...
Her voice temporarily silenced by a nearly three-month battle with COVID-19, Elenice da Silva "talks" by mouthing her words in a Brazilian care unit created to help hard-hit patients recover their health and their lives. Elenice da Silva practices breathing exercises in a post-COVID-19 care unit at...
Scientists have known for several months the new coronavirus can become suspended in microdroplets expelled by patients when they speak and breathe, but until now there was no proof that these tiny particles are infectious. A scanning electron microscope image of SARS-CoV-2 (round blue...
Reeling from polls predicting defeat in November's election, President Donald Trump struck a newly serious tone on the coronavirus crisis Tuesday, acknowledging that a disease he has frequently played down would "get worse." US President Donald Trump speaks during a briefing of the Coronavirus Task...
Mexico on Tuesday passed 40,000 deaths from the novel coronavirus pandemic as the country, which has the fourth-highest COVID-19 death toll in the world, struggles to contain the disease. A daily technical report recorded a total of 40,400 deaths from the virus, after adding 915 more fatalities in...
Nepal said Tuesday it will resume international commercial flights in mid-August, in a boost for its coronavirus-hit tourism sector. A Buddhist devotee sings devotional songs at the Swayambhunath Stupa in Kathmandu on July 13, 2020. (Photo by PRAKASH MATHEMA / AFP) The Himalayan nation shut its...
New Delhi recorded fewer than 1,000 coronavirus cases for the first time in seven weeks on Tuesday, even as more Indian states imposed restrictions to halt the spread of the pandemic. A doctor wearing a Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) suit (R) instructs patients as they perform yoga inside a...
Browse through Arabic-language social media pages and you could walk away thinking COVID-19 is an American hoax, isn't deadly, and can be swiftly cured with a garlic clove. An Iranian women wearing a protective mask amid the COVID-19 pandemic, shops at the Tajrish Bazaar market in the capital...
