Apr 08, 2020

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt will extend a nationwide night-time curfew by 15 days until April 23 to counter the spread of the coronavirus, Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly said on Wednesday....

Apr 08, 2020

By Augustinus Beo Da Costa JAKARTA (Reuters) - Several passengers on an Indonesian ferry jumped into the sea and swam ashore after authorities sought to block the vessel d...

Apr 08, 2020

It's jarring every time. The sudden crash in patients with COVID-19 All over the world, seemingly mild cases of COVID-19 rapidly morph into severe cases that involve the lower lungs. This may b...

Apr 08, 2020

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's new coronavirus death toll has climbed to 3,993 with 121 more deaths in the past 24 hours, a Health Ministry spokesman told state TV on Wednesday, adding that t...

Apr 08, 2020

By Geert De Clercq PARIS (Reuters) - Being overweight is a major risk for people infected with the new coronavirus and the United States is particularly vulnerable because...

Apr 08, 2020

(Reuters) - Novavax Inc said on Wednesday it had identified a novel coronavirus vaccine candidate and would start human trials in mid-May. The Maryland-based late-stage b...

Apr 08, 2020

By Brenda Goh and Thomas Suen WUHAN, China (Reuters) - The Chinese city where the new coronavirus emerged ended its more-than two-month lockdown on Wednesday, even as a sm...

Apr 08, 2020

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Expatriates in Hong Kong are buying up masks to send to family and friends back home as supplies return to shops in the Asian financial hub and the coronavirus spr...

Apr 08, 2020

By Heru Asprihanto and Willy Kurniawan JAKARTA (Reuters) - As debate rages about the true death toll caused by the coronavirus outbreak in Indonesia, Jakarta coffin maker ...

Apr 08, 2020

By David Stanway ZISIQIAO, China (Reuters) - Since China began frantic efforts to curb a coronavirus epidemic in late January, residents in the tiny snake breeding village...

Apr 08, 2020

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will have a new coronavirus testing facility capable of carrying out 30,000 tests per day by early May, said the chief executive of pharma company AstraZeneca...

Apr 08, 2020

New Rochelle, NY, April 6, 2020--A team of researchers in Wuhan, China have developed a multidisciplinary self-managed home quarantine method that was effective in controlling the source of COVID-19 i...

Apr 07, 2020

Scientists from the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Thorax Clinic at Heidelberg University Hospital, whose collaboration is taking place under the ...

Apr 07, 2020

International panel does quick turnaround McMaster University Hamilton, ON (April 1, 2020) - An international team including McMaster University researchers has come together to issue guidelines for...

Apr 07, 2020

By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - North Korea, one of only a handful of countries not to have reported confirmed cases of COVID-19, has said that it continues testin...

Apr 07, 2020

By Marco Aquino LIMA (Reuters) - Two pregnant women diagnosed with the new coronavirus in Peru have given birth to babies who have tested negative for the disease, a hospi...

Apr 07, 2020

By Maurice Tamman NEW YORK (Reuters) - The daily tally of New York City residents who died at home with coronavirus-like symptoms exploded from 45 on March 20 to 241 on ...

Apr 07, 2020

By Jesús Aguado and Joan Faus MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's daily toll of coronavirus deaths rose on Tuesday for the first time in five days, with 743 people succumbing over...

Apr 07, 2020

(Reuters) - The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration said on Tuesday it was increasing production limits by 15% for certain controlled substance medicines that were in high demand due t...

Apr 07, 2020

By Michael Erman and Deena Beasley NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The decades-old drug that President Donald Trump has persistently promoted as a potential weapon agains...