Russian lawmakers have proposed imposing severe punishments -- including up to seven years in prison -- for people breaking coronavirus quarantine rules.

Because of lack of proven treatment, the Covid-19 patients are largely receiving only supportive care such as breathing assistance.

Turkey has charged 20 suspects including two former aides to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over the 2018 murder of Riyadh critic Jamal Khashoggi, prosecutors said yesterday.

The afternoon sun is blazing in Uttar Pradesh’s capital Lucknow. The city police have enforced a strict lockdown and only essential services are allowed. The police made announcements all night after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi last evening ordered citizens to stay at home for 21 days, in a special televised address to the nation.

The coronavirus pandemic is threatening the entire human race, the United Nations warned yesterday as it launched a humanitarian response plan featuring a $2 billon appeal for the world’s poorest people.

US President Donald Trump has requested novel coronavirus test kits from South Korea, his counterpart Moon Jae-in said yesterday.

US President Donald Trump has requested novel coronavirus test kits from South Korea, his counterpart Moon Jae-in said yesterday.

The Thai government banned entry for all non-resident foreigners yesterday but held off on restricting people’s movement inside the country as the government prepared to roll out emergency measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus.

Libya has reported its first case of the novel coronavirus, a particular source of concern in the North African country where civil war has badly degraded the public healthcare system.

Britain will have test kits available within days to be sent to households to establish whether people have contracted the new coronavirus and developed immunity, a health official says.

Spain registered 738 fatalities from the coronavirus over the past 24 hours in the steepest increase of the death toll since the epidemic hit the country, the health ministry reports.

Veteran photographer Nemai Ghosh, whose nearly 30-year-old association with Satyajit Ray earned him the title “Boswell with a camera”, dies in Kolkata aged 86.

Unidentified gunmen and suicide bombers raided a Sikh religious complex in the Afghan capital of Kabul killing 25 people before security forces killed all of the attackers, the government says.

Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne, has tested positive for coronavirus, his household says.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has urged leaders of the world’s 20 major industrialized nations on Tuesday to adopt a “wartime” plan including a stimulus package “in the trillions of dollars” for businesses, workers and households in developing countries trying to tackle the coronavirus pandemic.

Mainland China reported a drop in new confirmed coronavirus cases as imported infections fell and no locally transmitted infections are reported, including in central Hubei province, the epicentre of the outbreak in China.

Facebook says the coronavirus pandemic has users flocking to its services while it undermines ad revenue on which the world's biggest social network depends.

A 7.5 magnitude earthquake strikes near Russia's far eastern Kuril Islands and a tsunami warning has been issued for the closest shores.

An Arizona man dies and his wife is in critical condition after they ingested chloroquine phosphate - an aquarium cleaning product similar to drugs that have been named by President Trump as potential treatments for coronavirus infection.

Terrence McNally, a revered American playwright, librettist and screenwriter whose long career earned him four Tony awards and an Emmy, dies following coronavirus complications aged 81.