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Chancellor Angela Merkel was on Sunday in quarantine after meeting a doctor who tested positive for the novel coronavirus, as Germany further tightens rules on public gatherings and ...

.The number of persons infected by COVID-19 in Africa has climbed to 633, the World Health Organisation has said. The Gambia, Mauritius and Zambia have all reported their ...

African countries have been told to prepare for the worst by the head of the World Health Organization (WHO). In all, 16 deaths have been reported: Six in ...

The Trump administration pressed on Tuesday for the enactment of a $1 trillion stimulus package, possibly to include $1,000 direct payments to individual Americans, to blunt the economic ...

France goes into a near-total shutdown on Tuesday over the coronavirus, the latest country to impose draconian restrictions affecting the lives of tens of millions of people. European ...

In response to the seemingly uncontrolled spread of the Coronavirus, Canada has closed its borders to nationals from all countries except the United States of America. This came on the heels ...

The United States and China on Monday each demanded that the other stop smearing its reputation over the novel coronavirus as the pandemic became the latest row between the ...

The first human trial to evaluate a candidate vaccine against coronavirus disease 2019 has begun in Seattle, US health officials said on Monday. “The open-label trial will enroll ...

Jack Ma, co-founder of Alibaba, Chinese e-commerce company, has announced a donation of 1.1 million testing kits and six million masks to fight coronavirus in Africa. Twenty-seven African countries have ...

Receives report on containment of COVID-19 outbreak The federal government yesterday added three new countries- Germany, France and Spain- to the list of five high-risk countries with widespread ...

Ghana on Monday closed all schools and universities and suspended public events to stop the spread of coronavirus as a string of African nations imposed tighter restrictions to ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said that it has earmarked $1 trillion lending capacity to help its 189 member countries combat the impact of COVID-19 on the ...

West Africa’s Benin on Monday announced its first confirmed coronavirus case as the continent scrambles to stop the spread of the global pandemic. Health minister Benjamin Hounkpatin said ...

Liberia announced its first case of the novel coronavirus on Monday, becoming the 27th African country to confirm the illness. The patient is the head of Liberia’s environmental ...

Louis Vuitton’s parent company, LVMH has disclosed its plans to help fight coronavirus by manufacturing and distributing hand sanitizers for free. This was disclosed in a statement released ...

Austria on Sunday banned gatherings of more than five people and told residents to go out only if necessary, in a bid to halt the spread of coronavirus. ...

France pressed on with local elections Sunday despite having closed bars and restaurants, as more nations imposed tight restrictions to try and contain the coronavirus that has infected ...

The Vatican said Sunday that its traditional Easter week celebrations would be held this year without worshippers due to the coronavirus. “Because of the current global public health ...

The United States said Saturday it was stepping up its fight against the coronavirus and extending a European travel ban to include the United Kingdom and Ireland while ...

US President Donald Trump has tested negative for the coronavirus, the White House physician has said. “This evening I received confirmation that the test is negative,” Sean Conley ...