01:39 People in Paris will have to wear face masks in crowded outdoor areas due to a surge in COVID-19 cases.Along with the French capital, it has also become mandatory in 1,500 munici
Stella Kyriakides, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, attends a press conference after the EU Health Affairs Council in Brussels, Belgium, on March 6, 2020. (Photo by Riccardo Pareggian
The Africa Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) on Monday revealed the death toll due to illnesses related to the COVID-19 pandemic rose to 23, 253. The continent-wide COVID-19 r
File photo shows giraffes were at the Uganda Wildlife Education Center in central Uganda, Dec. 9, 2016. (Xinhua/Ronald Ssekandi)Uganda has reopened the Uganda Wildlife
People wearing face masks are seen in a shopping mall in Cairo, Egypt, on Aug. 7, 2020. Egypt registered on Friday 141 new COVID-19 cases, taking the total infections in the country to 95,147, sa
Police in the city of Melbourne in Australia's southeastern state of Victoria have arrested two organizers of a rally against wearing masks amid the coronavirus pandemi
The Chinese Ministry of Culture and Tourism has reminded the public to follow coronavirus-control rules when taking trips during the summer holiday season. Tourists ar
Manal Ahmed, a Yemeni girl in her early twenties, established her own fashion brand "Balqees" in Cairo. Her fashion designing career started after being crowned as Miss Arab Veil, a beauty pageant fo
A pedestrian shelters under a Union Flag umbrella in front of the Bank of England in London, August 16, 2018. /Reuters The Bank of England (BoE) on Thursday said it had voted to keep its main
Paris authorities are soon expected to make the wearing of masks compulsory in certain busy streets and other outdoor places in the city."We are going to ask that it be
A salesperson wearing a face mask talks to customers at the National Hot Tub Expo in New Orleans, Louisiana, the United States, on June 21, 2020. (Photo by Lan Wei/Xinh
A worker wearing a protective face mask checks the temperature of a traveler at Dadar railway station, amidst the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Mumbai, India, July 31, 2020. /Re
The numbers keep going up in the U.S. as tens of thousands of new COVID-19 cases are reported around the country.The governor of the state of Kentucky declared Sunday, "We remain at war with the c
Staff wearing protective suits clean garbage at a hospital in Pretoria, South Africa, July 10, 2020. (Photo by Yeshiel/Xinhua) The number of COVID-19 related deaths in the African continent reached
A mural of a man wearing a mask is pictured on a sidewalk amid the COVID-19 outbreak in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines, July 30, 2020. /Reuters The Philippines government on Sunday sai
A healthcare worker wearing protective gear talks on a mobile phone at a testing center for COVID-19 at the Institute for Health Research, Epidemiological Surveillance and Training (IRESSEF), in
People wearing masks shopping at a farmers market in Santa Monica, California, U.S., August 1, 2020. /CFPThe death toll from COVID-19 in the U.S. is expected to climb t