Category: World News

By Polina Ivanova MOSCOW (Reuters) – For some elderly Moscow residents, the coronavirus lockdown has a familiar feel – they lived through something like it during a dramatic Soviet-era smallpox … Read More

(Reuters) – Taiwan’s cabinet has told government agencies to stop using Zoom Video Communications Inc’s <ZM.O> conferencing app, the latest blow to the company as it battles criticism of its … Read More

HELSINKI (Reuters) – Finland will start tracking the spread of the new coronavirus in its population with randomised antibody tests, its public health authority said on Tuesday. The main hospitals … Read More

By Gul Yousafzai QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistani doctors went on strike at two hospitals in southwestern Quetta on Tuesday, a day after police used force to break up and … Read More

HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnam donated 550,000 face masks to five European countries on Tuesday to support their fight against the coronavirus that has killed more than 75,000 people worldwide. The … Read More

By Alexis Akwagyiram and Mfuneko Toyana LAGOS/JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – In a dark ground-floor room in Lagos, dressmaker Kemi Adepoju gazes at a pile of dresses she has made but which … Read More

(Reuters) – Drugmaker Eli Lilly & Co said on Tuesday it has capped the out-of-pocket cost for insulin to $35 per month to help diabetes patients across the United States, … Read More

LONDON (Reuters) – British Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said on Tuesday he was self isolating because a member of his family is displaying COVID-19 symptoms. Gove, one of the … Read More

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Queen Elizabeth on Tuesday sent a message of “enduring appreciation and good wishes” to health workers around the world for World Health Day. “I want to … Read More

By Colin Packham and Renju Jose SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s lock-down measures have bought it time in its fight against the coronavirus and it must now decide its next course, … Read More