Apr 09, 2020

QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuadorean President Lenin Moreno on Wednesday called for an investigation into how local authorities handled the bodies of coronavirus victims in Guayaquil, the epice...

Apr 09, 2020

By Saumya Joseph (Reuters) - Cats can become infected with the new coronavirus but dogs appear not to be vulnerable, according to a study published on Wednesday, prompting...

Apr 09, 2020

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia reported 109 new coronavirus infections on Thursday, raising its cumulative total to 4,228 cases as Southeast Asia's third-largest economy grapples wit...

Apr 09, 2020

BERLIN (Reuters) - The number of confirmed coronavirus infections in Germany rose by 4,974 in the past 24 hours to 108,202 on Thursday, climbing for the third straight day after four pr...

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...