Coronavirus

New Delhi: China is delaying grant of clearance to India's proposal to send an Indian Air Force flight to carry relief material for people affected by coronavirus in the neighbouring country and bring back Indians from its city of Wuhan, official sources said Saturday. India...

Tokyo: Indians, who are still on board a cruise ship moored off the Japanese coast, will be tested for the novel coronavirus infection along with others on the vessel by the Japanese authorities, the Indian embassy said Saturday as all the healthy passengers deboarded after...

Seoul: South Korea reported 142 more coronavirus cases Saturday, the sharpest spike in infections yet, with more than half of the new cases linked to a hospital in a southern city. The national toll of 346 is now the second-highest outside of China, with the...

Beijing: The death toll in China's novel coronavirus climbed to 2,345 with 109 more deaths reported, while the confirmed cases rose to 76,288 as a team of WHO experts, currently in the country to investigate the COVID-19 outbreak, is expected to visit the worst-affected Wuhan...

Jerusalem: Israel confirmed its first case of new coronavirus Friday, in a citizen who flew home from Japan earlier this week after being quarantined on the stricken cruise ship Diamond Princess. "One of the passengers who returned home from the cruise ship in Japan tested...

San Francisco: E-commerce giant Amazon has warned sellers that it is removing listings for products from the platform that claim to cure the novel coronavirus. With the coronavirus spreading to over two dozen countries and the overall death toll in mainland China surpassing 2,000, fighting...

Beijing: More than 400 cases of the new coronavirus have been detected in prisons across China, officials said Friday, fuelling concerns about new clusters of the epidemic. Seven guards and 200 inmates tested positive for the virus at Rencheng prison in eastern Shandong province, the...

Sydney: Two Australians evacuated from the ‘Diamond Princess’ cruise ship have tested positive for coronavirus, authorities said Friday, raising questions about Japan’s policy of allowing evacuees to return home after testing negative. “We have two people who are positive for the COVID-19 virus. Those two...

Beijing: The death toll in China’s novel coronavirus has gone up to 2,236 with 118 more deaths reported, mostly from the hard-hit Hubei province, while the overall confirmed infection cases have climbed to 75,465, Chinese health officials said Friday. The number of deaths is higher...

New Delhi: The military aircraft India is sending to Wuhan with medical supplies will evacuate about 100 Indians from the coronavirus-hit Chinese city, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said Thursday. MEA spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said the advisories regarding travel to and from China remain...