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In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, women wearing protective masks chat with each other outside a Lego store at a reopened commercial street in Wuhan in central Chinas Hubei province on Monday, March 30, 2020. Shopkeepers in the city at the center of Chinas virus outbreak were reopening Monday but customers were scarce after authorities lifted more of the anti-virus controls that kept tens of millions of people at home for two months. (Photo | AP)

Covid-19 epicentre Wuhan classified as 'low-risk area' as China...

Meanwhile, death toll remained at 4,632 as no new fatalities were reported on Saturday

19 April 2020 12:15 PM IST

Former lawmaker and pro-democracy activist Martin Lee (C) leaves the Central District police station in Hong Kong. AFP Photo

Amid virus pandemic, Hong Kong arrests high profile pro-democracy...

Condemning the arrests, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called the arrests "deeply concerning"

19 April 2020 12:05 PM IST

US President Donald Trump at the Coronavirus briefing on Saturday. (AFP)

Trump calls China's official Coronavirus death toll 'unrealistic'

Trump asserted that the actual number was much more than the official death toll figures.

19 April 2020 11:59 AM IST

Protesters hold up signs outside of the Ohio State House in Columbus, Ohio. AFP Photo

Hundreds protest across US cities to lift lockdown as Covid19 deaths...

Protesters have drawn encouragement in certain Democratic-led states from tweets by Trump, who has said he favors a...

19 April 2020 11:05 AM IST

A volunteer wearing a protective gear carries a cross while walking around a church along with priests during the Orthodox Good Friday religious service. AFP Photo

Social distancing should be practised during Ramadan too, says Trump

More than 700,000 cases of coronavirus have been reported in the United States, forcing religious communities to shutter...

19 April 2020 10:52 AM IST

This file photo taken on February 23, 2017 shows a worker inside the P4 laboratory in Wuhan, capital of Chinas Hubei province. AFP Photo

Investigating reports that Covid19 escaped virology lab in Wuhan,...

Trump added that the US would end its grant to a level-IV lab in Wuhan

18 April 2020 3:54 PM IST

Passengers wearing face masks at Changsha railway station in China. (AFP Photo)

China denies covering up extent of Coronavirus outbreak amid US...

A foreign ministry spokesman acknowledged that the virus's rapid spread had contributed to undercounting.

17 April 2020 4:59 PM IST

Photo: Imran Khan Instagram

Pakistan: Imran Khan seeks top agency's help to tackle coronavirus...

Khan on Thursday addressed a meeting of National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC).

17 April 2020 1:50 PM IST

Indian-American US Congressman Ro Khanna on Friday advocated for NATO equivalent status for India in bilateral defence ties. (Facebook)

Congresssman Ro Khanna named to White House coronavirus advisory...

Khanna is the only Indian-American lawmaker to be named to the Opening Up America Again Congressional Group.

17 April 2020 1:37 PM IST

A volunteer worker carries out disinfection in Spain. AFP Photo

Spain's Coronavirus toll crosses 19,000 mark after 551 people die in...

Spain has seen the increase in the number of deaths and infections slow over the past fortnight

16 April 2020 4:44 PM IST

Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Friday wrote a letter to S Jaishankar congratulating him on his appointment as the External Affairs Minister of India. (Photo: File)

Pakistan seeks China's help for debt relief to developing countries

Qureshi underlined that the COVID-19 had a devastating impact on global economy.

16 April 2020 1:58 PM IST

Antonio Guterress statement came ahead of the UN General Assembly session where Pakistan has said that it would raise the issue of Kashmir. The country is rattled by the Indian governments move to abrogate Article 370 of the constitution that accorded special status to Jammu and Kashmir. (Photo: ANI)

UN chief urges Africa to take urgent steps to stem coronavirus growth

Guterres said the UN and African countries are working together in fight against the pandemic.

16 April 2020 12:02 PM IST