China’s imported coronavirus cases have risen to a record 228, data showed yesterday, as infected travellers spread to ever more provinces, adding pressure on authorities to toughen entry rules and health protocols.

Malaysia will mobilise the army to help enforce curbs on movement aimed at reining in the coronavirus, the government said yesterday, as it grapples with the highest number of infections in Southeast Asia.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announces that her government will provide free food grains under the Public Distribution System for the next six months, which will benefit 7.5 crore people of the state to mitigate the economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak.

Iran says that coronavirus has killed 149 more people in the Islamic republic, raising the country's official death toll from the disease to 1,433.

Sri Lanka imposes a nationwide weekend curfew as South Asian countries escalate efforts to check the spread of coronavirus across the densely populated region of 1.9 billion people.

Britain has asked 65,000 former nurses and doctors to return to work and will deploy final-year medical students to fight the coronavirus health crisis, the health ministry says.

California issues an unprecedented statewide “stay at home” order for its 40 million residents and Washington warns Americans to return home or stay abroad indefinitely, as the number of coronavirus deaths in the country hits 200.

The United States sends Iran a blunt message: the spread of the coronavirus will not save it from US sanctions that are choking off its oil revenues and isolating its economy.

The four men, convicted in the brutal gang-rape and murder of a Delhi medical student in 2012, are hanged to death at the Tihar Central Jail in India's Delhi.

Italy's death toll from coronavirus overtakes that of China, where the virus first emerged, as hospitals say they are being overwhelmed and the government prepares to prolong emergency lockdown measures.

On Sunday morning, Irish chef Cúán Greene woke up to the review of his life. Britain’s Observer newspaper told readers his cooking would make them “thrillingly giddy and euphoric”. Hours later he was out of a job.

Chinese scientists and health experts involved in the country’s fight against the coronavirus believe the worst is now over, downplaying warnings that the disease could become seasonal or that a deadlier “second wave” could hit later in the year.

The Philippines is stopping the issuance of visas to foreigners, banning all nationalities from entering the country to halt the spread of

As people disperse to their homes to work and study because of the coronavirus pandemic, taking their laptops and company data with them, cyber security experts say hackers will follow, seeking to take advantage and infiltrate corporations.

A rally of Muslim pilgrims that is drawing thousands of people to Indonesia has been stopped amid fears that it could help spread

Britain faces a “massive shortage” of ventilators that will be needed to treat critically ill patients suffering from coronavirus, after it failed to invest enough in intensive care equipment, a leading ventilator manufacturer said yesterday.

Sri Lanka has indefinitely postponed parliamentary elections that were scheduled for next month to curb the spread of the new

France’s two-week lockdown to try to stem the coronavirus is likely to be extended, officials said yesterday, as the interior minister blasted “idiots” who are flouting the home confinement rules.

Australia and New Zealand moved to seal off their borders yesterday, announcing unprecedented bans on entry for non-residents in the hope of stemming the rise of COVID-19 infections.

Germany is facing its biggest challenge “since the Second World War” in the fight against the coronavirus, Chancellor Angela Merkel has said, in what observers called a “final warning” for citizens to heed sweeping confinement measures.