As Britain faces a shortage of personal protective equipment for health care workers battling the coronavirus outbreak, London’s tailors are putting their cutting and sewing machines to use to fill the void.

Kuwait government repatriates 126 Bangladeshi nationals who were either imprisoned or at deportation camps in the country on different grounds.

The UN human rights office voices concern about more than a dozen countries that have declared states of emergency due to the Covid-19 pandemic where police have arrested or detained hundreds of thousands of people and killed others.

Bangladesh has sought the support of the United States for the country’s RMG sector, which has been badly hit by fallout from the coronavirus outbreak.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern claims New Zealand has scored a significant victory against the spread of the coronavirus, as the country begins a phased exit from lockdown.

Yemen’s main southern separatist group announced early yesterday it would establish self-rule in areas under its control, which the Saudi-backed government warned would have “catastrophic consequences”.

President Donald Trump tweeted Saturday that his daily coronavirus briefings were not worth his time, two days after sparking a furor by suggesting patients might be injected with disinfectant to kill an infection.

The Chinese city of Wuhan, where the global coronavirus pandemic began, now has no remaining cases in its hospitals, a health official told reporters yesterday.

The new coronavirus has claimed at least 202,994 lives since its outbreak in China in December, according to a tally from official sources

A train likely belonging to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been spotted at a resort town in the country’s east, satellite photos reviewed by a US-based think tank showed, as speculation persists over his health.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday appealed to citizens to strictly comply with a nationwide lockdown and maintain social distancing norms, as cases of coronavirus mounted steadily despite over a month-long curfew.

China is dropping a requirement that a number of key virus care products get domestic regulatory approval before export, as long as they are approved in the importing countries.

An Indian woman has been allegedly gang raped in a school in the desert state of Rajasthan where she was quarantined for a night by the police amid the nationwide coronavirus lockdown, a police official says.

North Korea has never announced who would follow leader Kim Jong Un in the event he is incapacitated, and with no details known about his young children, analysts say his sister and loyalists could form a regency until a successor is old enough to take over.

The United States recorded 2,494 more coronavirus deaths in the past 24 hours, according to figures reported Saturday night by Johns Hopkins University.

Dozens of Pakistani doctors and nurses have launched a hunger strike demanding adequate protective equipment for frontline staff treating coronavirus patients, the lead organiser of the protest said yesterday.

Saudi Arabia has abolished flogging as a punishment, the state human rights commission said yesterday, hailing a “major step forward” in the reform programme launched by the king and his powerful son.

The Canadian government said Friday that one million KN95 masks imported from China did not meet its strict standards and so could not be distributed to frontline health workers amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Does sunlight rapidly destroy the coronavirus? A White House presentation on a mysterious government study says so -- but some scientists have called for caution as we await more evidence.

The death toll from the novel coronavirus pandemic rose to 197,871 yesterday, according to a tally from Johns Hopkins University yesterday at