UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday asked the world to declare war on COVID-19, two days after the World Health Organization (WHO) characterized the situation as a pandemic. "We mu
00:40 Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top infectious disease expert at the National Institutes of Health, says the U.S. system for COVID-19 testing is failing."The system is not really geared t
Brazilian Communications Secretary Fabio Wajngarten tested positive for the coronavirus on 12 March after he accompanied President Jair Bolsonaro on a visit to US Presi
U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday declared a national emergency to open up 50 billion U.S. dollars in federal aid to help combat the spread of COVID-19 across the country. "I am officially decla
Newly sworn-in Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou listens to the national anthem during a handover ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Athens, Greece, March 13, 2020. /Reuters Greece'
The U.S. Food and Drug and Administration has granted emergency approval for use of a new test that can increase the range of testing patients by up to 10 times compared to methods in use currently, B
Tanzanian President John Magufuli on Friday urged his fellow citizens to be on high alert over the COVID-19 outbreak after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the virus a pandemic. Magufuli
Kazakhstan's health authorities confirmed the country's first two cases of COVID-19 on Friday. The two Kazakh citizens, who had separately returned from Germany, have
President Donald Trump’s administration announced Friday it is awarding $1.3 million to two companies trying to develop rapid COVID-19 tests that could detect whether a
All of the 840 major foreign trade firms in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, neighboring Hubei Province which was hit hardest by the coronavirus, have resumed operations, according to a pre
French top-flight Ligue 1 and second-division Ligue 2 will be suspended "until further notice," the LFP, governing body of French elite football leagues, said in a statement on Friday. "Following an
Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca announced on Friday that the second patient has been diagnosed with COVID-19 in Turkey. "He is from the immediate circle of our
Israel's sports and health ministries announced on Friday the cancellation of all sports events in the country as part of the efforts to stop the spread of the novel c
The Ethiopian Ministry of Health on Friday reported the country's first confirmed COVID-19 case after a 48-year-old Japanese national was tested positive for the virus
A U.S. citizen living in Taiwan was confirmed to have contracted the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the island's epidemic monitoring agency said Friday. The new patient, a man in his 50s, was
Sri Lanka's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), on Friday said it had temporarily halted passengers arriving from South Korea, Iran and Italy in a bid to prevent COVID-19
China not only cares about combating COVID-19 at home but also seeks to contribute to fighting the novel coronavirus abroad, Chinese Ambassador to Egypt Liao Liqiang s
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