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Filipinos who violate coronavirus lockdown measures could be shot, warned Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte. In a televised address to the nation, the president said: “It is getting…

JK Rowling is offering free audiobooks and ebooks to the first novel in her series, “Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone”, throughout April to help families, especially kids, in…

Turkmenistan has banned the media from using the word 'coronavirus'. According to media reports, the word -- which has become synonymous with fear and death across the world -- has been…

As many as 864 deaths on Wednesday took Spain's coronavirus toll past 9,000, while the number of confirmed cases has crossed the 100,000-mark, the Spanish government has said. According…

A report in the Times of India has revealed that wet markets, where animals are butchered in front of shoppers while still alive, have started functioning again in China. One such wet…

The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, which was postponed following concerns over the coronavirus pandemic, will held next summer from July 23, 2021, to August 8, 2021. Similarly, the Paralympics…

Canadian first lady Sophie Gregoire Trudeau announced on social media that she had recovered from COVID-19, and received the clearance from her doctor and Ottawa Public Health. "I am…

A 57-year-old woman, who sells shrimps at a seafood market in China's Wuhan, is believed to be the first person to have tested positive for novel coronavirus (COVID-19). According to a…

London: When researchers across the globe are doing everything in their power to develop a vaccine against the novel coronavirus, a UK charity firm Medical Detection Dogs (MDD) is planning…

A 101-year old man from Rimini, Italy, has recovered and returned home after being treated for COVID-19 on Friday. The man identified only as "Mr-P" was born during the Spanish Flu, which…