Category: World

A malaria drug widely touted as a potential cure for Covid-19 showed no benefit against the disease over standard care — and was in fact associated with more deaths, the biggest study of its kind showed on Tuesday. The US government-funded analysis of how American military veterans fared on hydroxychloroquine was posted on a medical […]

PARIS/WASHINGTON: More than 160,000 people have died from the new coronavirus around the world, almost two thirds of them in Europe, according to a tally on Sunday based on official sources. A total of 160,502 fatalities have been registered out of 2,331,318 cases. These include 101,398 deaths and 1,151,820 infections in Europe, the continent hardest […]

LONDON: The British government insisted on Sunday that Prime Minister Boris Johnson was “on top of things” as he recovers from the coronavirus facing criticism of his early handling of the crisis. The Conservative leader spent three days in intensive care after contracting the virus, and has been off work since March 27, but was […]

A gunman who drove a mock-up police car killed at least 16 people in an Atlantic Canada shooting rampage, federal police said on Sunday, the worst case of its kind in Canadian history. The shooter, identified as Gabriel Wortman, 51, was shot dead by officers after a 12-hour manhunt in Nova Scotia province ended on […]

India recorded its biggest single-day spike in coronavirus cases on Monday as the government eased one of the world’s strictest lockdowns to allow some manufacturing and agricultural activity to resume. An additional 1,553 cases were reported over 24 hours, raising the national total past 17,000. At least 543 people have died from Covid-19, the respiratory […]

Tattoo parlours and hair salons in Denmark. Beaches in Australia. Bookstores in Germany. Nations around the world took advantage Monday of their flattening coronavirus infection curves to tentatively ease lockdowns, edging towards a new yet unknown state of normal amid a devastating pandemic. China, where the virus started its relentless march around the globe late […]

LAHORE: The first batch of 41 Pakistanis stranded in India since the start of the lockdown last month crossed the Wagah Border on Thursday. Pakistan and India had closed the border crossing points as part of efforts to check the spread of coronavirus. India went into lockdown on March 14, which caused a lot of […]

UNITED NATIONS: The UN special envoy for Yemen said on Thursday that “very good progress” was being made towards a ceasefire in the country, although military activities regrettably “continue on a number of fronts” during the coronavirus pandemic. Envoy Martin Griffiths told the UN Security Council via video conference that work was underway in “reaching […]

The central Chinese city of Wuhan has raised its number of Covid-19 fatalities by 1,290, with state media saying on Friday the undercount had been due to the insufficient admission capabilities at overwhelmed medical facilities at the peak of the outbreak. Wuhan’s revised death toll of 3,869 is the most in China. Numbers of total […]

London’s transport authorities on Friday announced new measures to protect bus drivers from coronavirus, as colleagues held a minute’s silence for 20 who have already died. Mayor Sadiq Khan, whose father was a bus driver, led tributes to the victims as authorities said passengers would no longer be able to use the front door near […]