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The tiny city-state, which has one of Asia's highest tallies of COVID-19, largely fuelled by mass outbreaks in migrant workers' dormitories, eased strict lockdown rules last week that had been in place for more than two months.

According to health officials, 11,26,761 COVID-19 tests, including 24,599 on Monday, were conducted so far in the country.

The company also said it hoped to start trials in August of an easier-to-use inhaled version of the medicine, currently administered only intravenously.

So far, 236 people have been infected in the worst outbreak in Beijing since COVID-19 was identified at a seafood market in the central city of Wuhan late last year.

The crowds didn't appear for rally Saturday, leading the campaign to abruptly abandon plans for the US President to speak to an 'overflow' area outside the arena.

The draft law aims to tackle separatism, subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces.

Most of the graves were located on fenced land or abandoned farms in the towns of Zapopan, Tlajomulco, Juanacatlan and El Salto, all in the Guadalajara metropolitan area.

No testing is required under the ministry of agriculture's new rules, which were issued after consultations with the labor prosecutor's office.

Mike Pompeo was speaking publicly for the first time since meeting for nearly nine hours Wednesday in Hawaii with a top Chinese official, Yang Jiechi, on the soaring tensions between the United States and China.

The study, which was published last week in the journal PNAS, compared Covid-19 case counts and measures enforced in China's Wuhan city, Italy, and New York City in the US, and noted that wearing of face masks in public corresponds to the most effective m...

While the 10 provinces are slowly reopening their economies, major restrictions remain in place in Montreal and Toronto, Canada's two biggest cities.

WHO's Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said it was "very welcome news" that the initial results of a clinical trial had shown that a cheap, common steroid known as dexamethasone can help save critically ill patients.

The project is a major escalation of China’s efforts to use genetics to control its people, which had been focused on tracking ethnic minorities and other, more targeted groups.

An internal report describes the spring 2016 theft as the largest data loss in agency history — compromising at least 180 gigabytes to as much as 34 terabytes of information, or the equivalent of 11.6 million to 2.2 billion pages in Microsoft Word.

The actual spike in unemployment would have been much higher were it not for the British government's Job Retention Scheme, which has been paying a big part of the salaries of more than 9 million people.

City official Li Junjie said at a press conference that fresh cases had been found in a second wholesale market in northwestern Haidian district.