President Donald Trump cast doubt on the accuracy of official Chinese figures on its coronavirus outbreak after US lawmakers, citing an intelligence report, accused Beijing of a cover up.

South Africa: Soldiers towered over youngsters in South Africa’s Soweto township, forcing them to do push-ups and roll on the floor as punishment for not adhering to a lockdown meant to halt the spread of coronavirus.

More than 3.9 billion people, or half of the world’s population, has been called on or obliged by their authorities to stay at home, according to an AFP database count.

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India will pull out of a three-week lockdown in phases, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said yesterday, as officials battle to contain the country’s biggest cluster of coronavirus infections in the capital, New Delhi.

Canada now has more than 10,000 coronavirus cases and the death toll has jumped 21% from a day earlier to 127, according to data posted by the country’s public health agency.

Saudi Arabia imposes a 24-hour curfew in the Muslim holy cities of Mecca and Medina, extending measures to combat coronavirus, while other Gulf Arab states lock down districts with large migrant worker populations.

Russia sends the United States medical equipment to help fight the coronavirus pandemic, a public relations coup for Russian President Vladimir Putin after he discusses the crisis with US President Donald Trump.

Another 6.65 million US workers file for unemployment benefits last week, the most ever recorded, as the coronavirus forces businesses to shut down nationwide, the Labor Department reports.

Hackers working in the interests of the Iranian government have attempted to break into the personal email accounts of staff at the World Health Organization during the coronavirus outbreak, four people with knowledge of the matter tell Reuters.

Esrat Karim, founder of AMAL Foundation, is named under Social Entrepreneurs category while Raba Khan, of the jhakanaka project, is named under Media, Marketing and Advertising category in the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list 2020.

The feeling of being a father in indescribable, and it is more so when it’s experienced for the first time. A Bangladeshi migrant in Singapore, whose wife has just given birth, is yet to experience this as for the past two months he has been ill. His physical condition has been worsened by coronavirus infection.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte tells security forces they should shoot dead anyone causing “trouble” in areas locked down due to the coronavirus pandemic.

North Korea remains totally free of the coronavirus, a senior health official in Pyongyang has insisted, despite mounting skepticism overseas as confirmed global infections near one million.

With reports of one more death and five new cases in West Bengal, there has been a steady rise in the number of Covid-19 –affected patients during the past few days in the state of India.

The head of the World Health Organization voices deep concern about the rapid escalation and global spread of COVID-19 cases from the new coronavirus, which has now reached 205 countries and territories.

Legendary jazz musician Wallace Roney has died at the age of 59 of complications from the novel coronavirus in New Jersey, reports CNN.

Though factories have shut, planes have been grounded and cars left in the garage, the coronavirus pandemic is having very little impact on climate change, the World Meteorological Organization said yesterday.

A drone dispersed clouds of disinfectant in the sky above Indonesia’s second-largest city Surabaya on Tuesday, a response to the coronavirus pandemic which is catching on around the world despite warnings from health experts.

Anti-malarial drugs chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine should only be used to treat Covid-19 in clinical trials or in case of “national emergency”, the European Medicine Agency (EMA) warned yesterday.