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Vaccine volunteers are seated, at the Chris Hani Baragwanath hospital in Soweto, Johannesburg Wednesday, June 24, 2020. (AP)

South Africa reports another record daily of confirmed virus cases

The African continent overall has more than 433,000 confirmed virus cases, while South Africa alone has 2,900 casualties...

4 July 2020 1:23 PM IST

US President Donald Trump watches as planes perform fly-overs of the Mount Rushmore National Monument Friday, July 3, 2020, in Keystone, S.D. (AP)

Trump pushes racial division, flouts virus rules at Rushmore

Leaders of Native American tribes in the region raised concerns that Trump's campaigns could lead to virus outbreaks...

4 July 2020 11:09 AM IST

Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi (AFP)

Pakistani foreign minister tests positive for COVID-19, had contact...

The minister had come in contact with PM Imran Khan in parliament, and also US representative Khalilzad to discuss on...

4 July 2020 10:07 AM IST

Health workers carry a COVID-19 patient on a stretcher made with pipe tubes and and using kitchen gloves in Puerto Carreno, Colombian Amazon, on the border with Peru, on July 3, 2020. (AFP)

Global coronavirus cases rise to more than 11 million

The number of cases is more than double the figure for severe influenza illnesses recorded annually, according to World...

4 July 2020 9:12 AM IST

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends a press conference organised by the Geneva Association of United Nations Correspondents (ACANU) amid the COVID-19 outbreak, caused by the novel coronavirus, on July 3, 2020 at the WHO headquarters in Geneva.(AFP)

WHO says it was alerted about virus by its own office in China, not...

The UN health body has been accused by US President Trump of being complacent towards China, which it denies

4 July 2020 9:01 AM IST

French President Emmanuel Macron (4-L) and Prime Minister Edouard Philippe (3-L) pose for a family photo after the first cabinet meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France. (AFP)

French Prime Minister, government resign ahead of cabinet reshuffle

President Emmanuel Macron says the move will set out a 'new course' as the country grapples with the fallout of the...

3 July 2020 4:30 PM IST

After coronavirus, now Trumps visa ban splits Indian families

After coronavirus, now Trump's visa ban splits Indian families

Many Indians are stranded' in their homeland due to suspension of H-1B visas while their family members are still in US

3 July 2020 2:53 PM IST

A farmer collects wheat kernels into a bucket before being poured into sacks during the harvest season, in a field in the countryside of al-Kaswa, south of Syrias capital Damascus. (AFP)

A good year of harvest brings hope to war-torn Syria after a long time

Before the war erupted in 2011, Syria produced enough wheat to feed its entire population but harvests then plunged to...

3 July 2020 1:23 PM IST

A member of the Australian Defence Force carries a batch of swab samples taken from members of the public at a drive-through COVID-19 coronavirus testing station in the Melbourne suburb of Fawkner on July 2, 2020. (AFP)

Thanks to conspiracy theories, Australians are refusing to test for...

Health officials in southern state of Victoria pled with the public to get themselves tested and to ignore...

3 July 2020 12:40 PM IST

In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a politburo meeting of the Central Committee of the Workers Party of Korea in Pyongyang, North Korea Thursday, June 2, 2020. (AP)

Kim signals North Korea to keep borders closed against virus

Pyongyang insists it has not had a single case of COVID-19, while the disease has swept the world infecting more than...

3 July 2020 9:15 AM IST

A man wearing a protective face mask as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus walks along a street after a shower. (AP)

Scientists use weather forecasting technique to predict COVID-19...

This technique is usually used to pair computer simulations with real weather observations to forecast future weather,...

2 July 2020 2:30 PM IST

A medic carries waste materials that were used during the treatment of COVID-19 patients to throw in a dustbin. (PTI)

Mumbai HC seeks government's clarification on disposal of COVID-19...

A PIL was filed claiming untreated biomedical waste generated by hospitals, pathology labs was being dumped at...

2 July 2020 11:10 AM IST