The new coronavirus pandemic has claimed more than 600,000 lives worldwide, an AFP tally showed Sunday. Relatives bury an alleged victim of COVID-19 in an annex of the Parque Memorial Jardin de los Angeles cemetery, 14 km north of Tegucigalpa, on July 14, 2020. (Photo by ORLANDO SIERRA / AFP)...
Russia's ambassador to London has denied accusations by Britain and its allies of helping hackers target labs conducting coronavirus vaccine research, in a UK television interview to be broadcast on Sunday. Britain is one of a number of countries conducting vaccine trials for COVID-19 (AFP...
Australia's parliament will be suspended for two weeks over fears that politicians could bring coronavirus from outbreak hotspots to the country's capital, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced Saturday. Parliament House in Canberra, Australia (AFP Photo/DAVID GRAY) The postponement comes a day...
BAGUIO CITY – Mayor Benjamin Magalong hopes to open the city’s tourism-based industries soon as long as there would be no second wave of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases, and also depending on the situation in areas where most of Baguio’s tourists come from. Mayor Benjamin Magalong (JJ...
The United States' COVID-19 virus case load is soaring at an explosive rate, even as leaders of some of the worst-hit states resist mandatory mask measures to stem the spread. People enjoy the ocean, July 16, 2020 in Huntington Beach, California, amid the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Robyn Beck...
ILOILO CITY —A few days after posting its highest single-day number of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases, Western Visayas region recorded the most number of recoveries in one day. The Department of Health (DOH-6) recorded 63 new recoveries on Friday, July 17, that brought its total to 345...
The capital of China's far-western Xinjiang region curtailed most flights into the city on Friday and has shut down subway and public bus services after several coronavirus infections were detected, government authorities and state-controlled media said. Urumqi in China's Xinjiang province has...
Spain hailed its medic heroes during the coronavirus crisis, but as infections fall many frontline staff have been left depressed and traumatised by their experience, fearful of an insecure future. With over a third of public healthcare workers without a permanent contract, according to one survey,...
Coronavirus cases in India passed one million on Friday, official data showed as authorities struggle to check the spread of the deadly pandemic across the world's second-most populous nation. More than 120 million people have been placed under lockdown in the Indian state of Bihar (AFP...
Australia's second-biggest city of Melbourne reported a record rise of more than 400 new coronavirus cases on Friday despite a week-old lockdown of more than 5 million residents. People walk through a usually bustling shopping arcade in Melbourne on July 10, 2020, as the city re-enters a lockdown...
Florida is the new epicenter of the coronavirus epidemic in the United States and is shaping up as a key battleground in a partisan-tinged fight playing out nationally over reopening schools in the fall. People walk as the sun sets in the background in South Bay, Miami Beach, Florida on July 14,...
It's become a familiar mantra: masks, hand-washing and physical distancing can slow the spread of the coronavirus while work continues on developing the vaccines and treatments needed to rid the world of its threat. A scanning electron microscope image of SARS-CoV-2 (round blue objects) emerging...
