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Portuguese town resort to test all residents ahead of summer season

Portugal, which so far has nearly 30,000 cases and 1,277 deaths, is slowly easing restrictions from a mid-March lockdown

22 May 2020 6:23 PM IST

The skulls and bones of some of those who were slaughtered as they sought refuge inside the church are laid out as a memorial to the thousands who were killed in and around the Catholic church during the 1994 genocide in Ntarama, Rwanda. (AP)

Top fugitive suspected of funding Rwanda's genocide arrested outside...

Kabuga is accused of funding the militias that massacred some 800,000 people and their moderate allies over a span of...

17 May 2020 3:25 PM IST

Heath workers take a break during the screening and testing campaign aimed to combat the spread of COVID-19 at Alexandra township in Johannesburg. (AP)

South Africa's lauded community screening strategy hits limits as...

South Africa's aggressive COVID-19 screening and testing approach is modelled on years of experience fighting...

16 May 2020 3:58 PM IST

A doctor tends to a patient in a ward for coronavirus patients at the Martini Hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia. (AP)

Years of conflict leave Somalia ill-equipped to fight the virus

The official count of cases in the country is now above 1,200, but no one really knows how many cases of COVID-19 it has...

15 May 2020 1:56 PM IST

People wearing face masks queue at a South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) to collect their government grant in Cape Town. (AP)

Coronavirus could infect more than 200 million people in Africa: WHO

The predictions made by a WHO modelling study comes amid stark warnings that COVID-19 threatens of a health emergency in...

15 May 2020 9:42 AM IST

People stand in white circles drawn on the ground to adhere to social distancing measures to curb the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus as they wait for a bus at Nyabugogo bus station in Kigali, Rwanda. (AFP)

Burundi kicks out WHO officials as they raise concern over mass...

Burundi has 27 confirmed cases of the coronavirus, but some have raised concerns that more cases exist

14 May 2020 3:01 PM IST

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. (AFP)

UN chief urges faith leaders to challenge hate speech

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on faith leaders to promote solidarity based on human rights and human...

13 May 2020 2:13 PM IST

A bottle of Covid Organics, a herbal tea, touted by Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina as a powerful remedy against the COVID-19 coronavirus, that the authorities gave each student and encouraged them to drink it before the start of classes is seen on a students desk at the J.J. Rabearivelo High School in downtown Antananarivo. (AFP)

Madagascar ships anti-virus tea to Guinea-Bissau president

WHO has clarified that the herbal tea's effects had not been tested, and there are no published scientific studies of...

3 May 2020 9:38 AM IST

A health worker from an aid organization walks wearing a hazmat suit at the Kutupalong Rohingya refugee camp in Coxs Bazar, Bangladesh. Theres been little if any coronavirus testing in Coxs Bazar, where more than a million members of Myanmars Rohingya Muslim minority are packed into the worlds largest refugee camp. (AP Photo)

Lack of virus testing stokes fears in world's refugee camps

While the relative isolation of many camps may have slowed the virus' spread, none is hermetically sealed

22 April 2020 4:29 PM IST

Antonio Guterres.

Take urgent steps to tackle coronavirus: UN chief urges African envoys

The U.N. chief held a video conference with African ambassadors to the United Nations in New York.

16 April 2020 11:42 AM IST

Moroccan authorities wearing face masks check people at a road block in a street in Casablanca. AFP Photo

Morocco arrests over 4,000 citizens for flouting emergency rules

Morocco imposed a public health state of emergency on March 19, confining everyone to their homes except those with a...

13 April 2020 4:36 PM IST

A man sits outside the closed shops at Khari Baoli Road during the nationwide lockdown, imposed in wake of the coronavirus pandemic, in New Delhi. PTI photo

Coronavirus pandemic to wipe out 195 million full-time jobs: ILO

The ILO describes coronavirus pandemic as -"the worst global crisis since World War II-".

8 April 2020 11:07 AM IST