Apr 09, 2020

By Byron Kaye and Colin Packham SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian police said on Thursday they have taken the "black box" of a cruise ship which disembarked hundreds of passen...

Apr 09, 2020

TOKYO (Reuters) - Fujifilm Holdings Corp said it will start phase II clinical trials of its anti-flu drug Avigan for COVID-19 patients in the United States. The trial will...

Apr 08, 2020

By Gabriella Borter NEW YORK (Reuters) - In New York City, an intensive care nurse treated patients for three days after she started displaying symptoms of COVID-19 - but ...

Apr 08, 2020

By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Generic drugmakers will be allowed to cooperate to supply hospital medicines for COVID-19 patients without fear of breaching the bloc'...

Apr 08, 2020

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Four people working at Exxon Mobil Corp’s Baytown, Texas, petrochemical complex have tested positive for COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the novel coro...

Apr 08, 2020

By Nick Brown and Deena Beasley (Reuters) - One medical worker called it "insane," another said it induces paranoia - the speed with which patients are declining and dying...

Apr 08, 2020

By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - Some coronavirus patients who would have been admitted into the emergency department at a New York hospital are being sent home with...

Apr 08, 2020

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The president of the European Union's main science organisation has quit the post he took up only in January, the European Commission said, amid controversy over th...

Apr 08, 2020

By Nathan Allen and Elena Rodriguez MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's official coronavirus death toll edged higher again on Wednesday, but questions persisted over the veracity o...

Apr 08, 2020

By John Revill and Brenna Hughes Neghaiwi ZURICH (Reuters) - Switzerland plans to ease restrictions now in place to combat the new coronavirus starting at the end of April...

Apr 08, 2020

By Sanjeev Miglani and Nidhi Verma NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India is considering plans to seal off coronavirus hotspots in Delhi, Mumbai and parts of the south while easing r...

Apr 08, 2020

By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - The COVID-19 disease pandemic is still infecting and killing large numbers of people across Europe and there is no sign yet that the pea...

Apr 08, 2020

By Alistair Smout LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said on Wednesday it aimed to roll-out millions of coronavirus tests in months after criticism that it had moved too slowly on...

Apr 08, 2020

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia, Africa's second most populous nation, and Liberia declared states of emergency on Wednesday to help curb the spread of the new coronavirus, a day after...

Apr 08, 2020

By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - Death and infection tolls from the COVID-19 pandemic spreading around the world point to men being more likely than women to contract th...

Apr 08, 2020

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore's Health Ministry confirmed 142 new coronavirus infections on Wednesday for a total of 1,623, the biggest daily increase yet, and said a seventh person h...

Apr 08, 2020

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt will extend a nationwide night-time curfew by 15 days until April 23 to counter the spread of the coronavirus, Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly said on Wednesday....

Apr 08, 2020

By Augustinus Beo Da Costa JAKARTA (Reuters) - Several passengers on an Indonesian ferry jumped into the sea and swam ashore after authorities sought to block the vessel d...

Apr 08, 2020

It's jarring every time. The sudden crash in patients with COVID-19 All over the world, seemingly mild cases of COVID-19 rapidly morph into severe cases that involve the lower lungs. This may b...

Apr 08, 2020

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's new coronavirus death toll has climbed to 3,993 with 121 more deaths in the past 24 hours, a Health Ministry spokesman told state TV on Wednesday, adding that t...