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Sri Lanka records highest single-day jump in coronavirus cases

A total of 173 more people are under observation at National Institute of Infectious Diseases

1 April 2020 2:10 PM IST

Workers disinfect the ground around the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque, in the Muslim holy city of Mecca,Saudi Arabia on March 7, 2020 (AP)

Coronavirus: Saudi asks Muslims to delay Haj plans

The kingdom's Al Saud ruling family stakes its legitimacy in this oil-rich nation on overseeing and protecting the hajj...

1 April 2020 1:46 PM IST

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. (Photo- AP)

Iran's fight against coronavirus not hampered by US sanctions: Rouhani

Friction between Tehran and Washington has increased since 2018 when President Donald Trump pulled the US out of...

1 April 2020 1:18 PM IST

Covid deaths in Iran touch 2898 after 141 new fatalities

Health ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said 3,111 new infections have been confirmed over the past 24 hours

31 March 2020 4:41 PM IST

Benjamin Netanyahu (AP)

Israeli PM Netanyahu placed under quarantine after staffer tests...

The prime minister decided that he and his close staff would be in confinement until tests were completed

30 March 2020 6:17 PM IST

People wearing protective clothing carry the body of a victim who died after being infected with the new coronavirus at a cemetery just outside Tehran, Iran. AFP Photo

Virus cases in Iran rise to 40,000, toll climbs to 2,757

Iran has been scrambling to contain COVID-19's spread since it reported its first cases on February 19

30 March 2020 5:50 PM IST

Iraqi doctors disinfect at ward at Hakim Hospital in Najaf, Iraq. AFP Photo

As Covid19 fatalities rise, Iraq scrambles to bury its dead

Iraq has confirmed more than 500 COVID-19 cases and 42 deaths

30 March 2020 2:30 PM IST

This handout photo taken and released by Thailand Ministry of Justice on March 29, 2020 shows Buriram Prison security personnel looking over a group of inmates on the ground after a jail riot in Buriram. AFP Photo

Virus outbreak sparks prison riot in Thailand

During the violence some convicts escaped from the Buriram prison where 2,000 are held, the justice ministry said

29 March 2020 6:26 PM IST

Over 12,000 recover from virus in Iran amid rising death toll

Iran reported 123 new deaths, taking the toll to 2,640

29 March 2020 5:12 PM IST

People in protective clothing walk past rows of beds at a temporary 2,000-bed hospital for COVID-19 coronavirus patients set up by the Iranian army at the international exhibition center in northern Tehran, Iran. AP Photo

Iran records 139 new Covid19 deaths, toll climbs to 2,517

The total number of infections in Iran now stands at 35,408

28 March 2020 3:48 PM IST

Passengers arrive at the railway station in Wuhan on March 28, 2020, after travel restrictions into the city were eased following two months of lockdown due to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak. The Chinese city of 11 million people that was Ground Zero for what became the global coronavirus pandemic partly reopened on March 28 after more than two months of almost total isolation. (AFP)

Meanwhile in Wuhan, the people are coming back

First train to the city since the shutdown steams in after midnight

28 March 2020 10:22 AM IST

Covid19: South Korea reports 146 new cases, five new deaths

South Korean Prime Minister Chung Se-kyun called for local governments to strengthen monitoring South Koreans who...

28 March 2020 9:53 AM IST