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As cases jump and deaths surge, the national health system is struggling with a lack of space, resources and staff.
The World Health Organization's regional chief for Europe has called for the "boldest actions" to fight the coronavirus pandemic sweeping the continent.
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China has purged American journalists at the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal in the Communist government's most severe move against foreign media in recent memory.
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China reports just one new domestic case in the coronavirus outbreak, but a dozen more imported infections from overseas.
After the Spanish prime minister announced a country-wide lockdown, self-quarantined Spaniards took to their windows to applaud healthcare workers.
US President Donald Trump has called for a unified national response to the coronavirus threat, after coming under fire for downplaying the pandemic and allowing states to go their own way.
The European Union will impose an entry ban on travellers from outside the bloc for 30 days to battle the spread of the coronavirus.
... but you’ll have to trim your guest list to under 100.
A group of American scientists have embarked on their first trial.
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Saudi Arabia has suspended prayers inside all but the holiest two mosques in Islam as the kingdom steps up efforts to contain the new coronavirus, state media reported.
Facebook said on Tuesday it was offering $100 million to help small businesses in 30 countries cope with the economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic.
Police in the northwestern US state of Oregon have urged citizens worried about the coronavirus pandemic not to call 911 if they run out of toilet paper.
The UK government's chief scientific adviser on Tuesday said it was "reasonable" to estimate that 55 000 people could have Covid-19, based on the expected death rate of one in 1 000 cases.
Two cases of COVID-19 have been registered at the World Health Organization headquarters, a spokesman said Tuesday.
People in France must have a document justifying their reason to be outside, even just for a walk or for the shop, after they refused to stay indoors.
European leaders are set to ban non-essential travel into the continent, the latest drastic attempt to curb the coronavirus pandemic that has upended society, battered markets and killed thousands around the world.
Facebook and other social media companies are joining with health agencies to combat fraud and elevate accurate information about the coronavirus.
As the spread of the novel coronavirus increases, more and more people are finding ways to continue their daily activities while practising social distancing.
Australia's elderly were let in early to supermarkets but there were still scenes of coronavirus panic buying in some areas, with reports of empty shelves and large queues.
German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier has urged all citizens to stay at home after Europe's biggest economy announced new nationwide restrictions to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
Five people including a police officer and a gunman have died in a shooting at a petrol station in the United States state of Missouri after the attacker went inside and opened fire, police say
The first human trial to evaluate a candidate vaccine against coronavirus disease 2019 has begun in Seattle, US health officials say.
Countries going into crisis mode over the spread of the deadly new coronavirus must not use the emergency measures to suppress human rights, a group of independent UN experts says.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has warned Iraq the US would retaliate "as necessary" against any new assaults on Americans after a series of deadly rocket attacks on a military base in Iraq.
A defrocked Catholic priest has been given a five-year jail term for sexually abusing boy scouts in his care several decades ago.
France's competition authority slapped a record 1.1 billion euro ($1.2 billion) fine on US tech giant Apple on Monday for anti-competitive behaviour towards its independent retail distributors.
LVMH will produce alcohol-based sanitisers as pharmacies and supermarkets face global shortages amid Covid-19 spread.
Food has been quickly disappearing from US supermarket shelves in signs of panic-buying but President Donald Trump and other government and industry officials have assured that the supply chain is intact and there's plenty of food.
On Tuesday, Trump said he felt the coronavirus "was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic." His previous remarks suggest otherwise.
US President Donald Trump doubled down on calling the coronavirus spreading rapidly across the world the "Chinese Virus", despite protests from Beijing.
Voters in Florida, Illinois and Arizona cast ballots in Democratic primaries in the face of a rapidly spreading coronavirus pandemic that has cast a pall over the US presidential nomination race between Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders.
Researchers in Australia say they have mapped the body's immune response to the novel coronavirus in a potential breakthrough in the fight against the global killer.
Spain has put all private hospitals under government control indefinitely as the number of coronavirus cases surge in the country.
Germany intervened, saying no country should have a monopoly on any vaccine
Outside a bakery, Parisians are queuing up a metre away from each other as a precautionary measure to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
Globally, the virus has infected more than 168 000 people and killed at least 6 610, according to the WHO.
It's a scene that's become familiar around the world: From the US to France to Australia, rows of empty supermarket shelves where toilet paper used to be, the result of coronavirus-induced panic buying.
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Authorities worldwide have raised concern over the possibility of banknotes spreading the coronavirus.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has warned China not to spread disinformation on the novel coronavirus after an official in Beijing promoted a conspiracy theory on US involvement.
The novel coronavirus killed a top Iranian cleric, as the death toll continues to rise in one of the world's worst-hit countries.
A six-year-old child has died in a fire at a badly overcrowded migrant camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, officials say.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has encouraged citizens to work in the countryside and drive tractors as a way to overcome the coronavirus epidemic.
US nightlife capitals New York and Los Angeles have ordered bars and restaurants to close or go take-out only as the country scrambles to contain the coronavirus pandemic and the Federal Reserve slashed rates to stem the fallout.
The coronavirus outbreak in France is "very worrying" and "deteriorating very fast", the head of the country's health service has said.
TRT offers tips on how to protect yourself during this global pandemic.
Chaos gripped major US airports Sunday as Americans returning from coronavirus-hit European countries overwhelmed authorities attempting to process the surge.
White House hopefuls Joe Biden and rival Bernie Sanders launched a joint attack on Donald Trump's response to the coronavirus pandemic as they faced off in high-stakes debate Sunday, accusing the president of undermining his own scientists with misin
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