Wuhan, the Chinese city where the coronavirus first emerged, raises its death toll by 50 percent, as a growing chorus of world leaders suggests China has not been open about the full domestic impact of the virus. The revision pushes the nationwide death toll up sharply to 4,632.

Hundreds of thousands of children could die this year due to the global economic downturn sparked by the coronavirus pandemic and tens of millions more could fall into extreme poverty as a result of the crisis, the United Nations warned on Thursday.

Nearly two-thirds of Americans say President Donald Trump was too slow in taking major steps to address the threat to the United States from new coronavirus, a poll published on Thursday said.

India has banned the use of video-conferencing app Zoom for government remote meetings, the government said Thursday, in the latest

An ambitious “cloud brightening” experiment has been carried out over Australia’s Great Barrier Reef in an early-stage trial that scientists

Two Nasa astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut made a safe return from the International Space Station to a planet roiled by the

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has extended his shutdown order in the US coronavirus outbreak epicenter until May 15, citing data showing improved conditions but insisting on the need to maintain vigilance.

Nearly 1,300 people who died of the coronavirus in the Chinese city of Wuhan, or half the total, were not counted in death tolls because of lapses, state media says, but Beijing dismisses claims that there has been any kind of cover-up.

The British government was too slow to react on a number of fronts to the novel coronavirus outbreak that could cause the deaths of 40,000 people in the United Kingdom, a leading public health professor says.

Fortify Rights has called for Malaysia to urgently coordinate with regional governments to deploy search and rescue missions for boats of Rohingya refugees adrift at sea and ensure their safe disembarking.

Britain extends its nationwide lockdown as stand-in leader Dominic Raab has ordered Britons to stay at home for at least another three weeks to prevent the spread of a coronavirus outbreak which has already claimed over 138,000 lives globally.

A Covid-19 vaccine may be the only thing that can bring back “normalcy,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Wednesday, hoping for just that before the end of the year.

A 99-year-old British World War II veteran yesterday completed 100 laps of his garden in a fundraising challenge for healthcare staff that

Google said it will launch an emergency fund to help local news outlets struggling to maintain operations in the face of the coronavirus

A countdown to a fourth election in Israel in more than a year of political deadlock began yesterday after Prime Minister Benjamin

The worldwide death toll from the novel coronavirus pandemic rose to 137,500 yesterday, according to a tally compiled by AFP at

India has brought charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder against the chief of a Muslim seminary for holding a gathering last month that authorities say led to a big jump in coronavirus infections, police said yesterday.

A 39-year-old Bangladeshi construction worker infected with coronavirus is transferred to the general ward from the intensive care unit of a hospital in Singapore.

A pregnant nurse has died after contracting the coronavirus but her baby, a girl, was delivered successfully and is doing well, the British hospital where she worked says.

Estimated global airline losses from the coronavirus pandemic have climbed to $314 billion, 25% more than previously forecast, owing to the severity of the economic downturn and a slower than previously expected reopening of international routes.