People use their phones frequently every day, which makes your phone a "high-touch surface," and potentially a carrier of the virus, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CD
People wear masks as they ride bicycles on second avenue in New York, U.S., March 21, 2020. /Xinhua Photo Editor's note: Shang-Jin Wei is a former chief economist at the Asian Development Bank
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) on Friday updated guidelines amidst the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The guidance was refined following a teleconference meeting Frid
WADA President Witold Banka attends a news conference in Lausanne, Switzerland, December 9, 2019. /VCG The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) on Friday updated guidelines amidst the ongoing COVID
02:42 With millions of people in the UK facing the possibility of working from home or self-isolating, there has been enormous pressure on supermarket stocks.Britain's leading supermar
A man poses with Zimbabwe’s new two-dollar banknotes as customers queue outside a bank in Harare./Reuters Zimbabwe has suspended the transfer of local shares in dual-listed companies to foreig
A cool, crisp Sunday morning, with temperatures just above freezing, greeted a horde of anxious shoppers outside the only grocery store in Carbondale, a tiny town with about 7,000 residents in t
France is holding nationwide elections Sunday to choose all of its mayors and other local leaders despite a crackdown on public gatherings because of the new virus.Voti
A person wearing a mask walks across the Millennium Bridge in London, Britain, on March 9, 2020. (Photo by Tim Ireland/Xinhua)The novel coronavirus outbreak has caused huge disruption in Britain as
Editor's note: Tom Fowdy is a British political and international relations analyst and a graduate of Durham and Oxford universities. He writes on topics pertaining to China, the DPRK, Britain, an
A small consolation in the growing COVID-19 crisis is that some of our moderate germophobia has begun to feel like a minor super power. As I got settled for a cross-country flight last week, I took ou
Iranian Deputy Health Minister Iraj Harirchi, who has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, wipes sweat off his face, during a press conference on February 24, 2020. /AFP Iran has announc
Prisoners and members of the Roma community, along with elderly people and the poorest in society, will be the focus of a new EU push to help Europeans “outside the mai
(Xinhua/Zhang Duan)7-year-old girl encourages her dad to cure patients as many as he canwhen her dad heads tothe novel coronavirus epidemic center Wuhan. HEFEI, Feb. 1
As of Wednesday, a total of 1,153 novel coronavirus patients were discharged from the hospital. While the news of recovery is good, it's a potential cause of concern as experts have warned that pa
Eradicating bacteria from our immediate environment has been linked to an assortment of ailments from allergies, multiple sclerosis, leukemia and type-1 diabetes to depression and cancer. Over the la
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