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The Vaccine Taskforce is stated to be key to coordinating efforts to rapidly accelerate the development and manufacture of a potential new vaccine to treat coronavirus.

There are not enough protective gowns, masks and face shields, raising risks of infection for medical workers and hindering efforts to treat the coronavirus patients.

The enrollment estimate in the trial run by Gilead was increased to 6,000 patients from 2,400 previously, according a register of clinical trials.

The Royal Society, the world's oldest independent scientific academy, said on Friday that its new data analytics initiative will complement existing efforts to guide the UK's response to coronavirus.

It was the sixth day that the official fatality rate has dropped in the Middle East's worst-hit country.

Reacting to US charge, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian told a media briefing here that China is among the first group of countries to sign the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) and always been supportive of its goals and purpo...

The laid off workers are mostly food and beverage workers, golf attendants, housekeepers and bell hops.

US President Donald Trump announced the funding freeze on Tuesday, accusing the WHO of "severely mismanaging" the spread of the virus.

Jonathan David, 35, was arrested earlier this month after jamming open a fire escape and slipping out of mandatory quarantine at a Perth hotel.

This is an increase of 778 on the previous day and official figures also showed that the number of people who have tested positive for COVID-19 has reached 93,873.

United Nations System worldwide saw more than 180 confirmed cases and three deaths due to coronavirus.

Italy reported 431 new deaths with their coronavirus death toll now standing at 19,899.

The gunmen fired at the vehicle of Frontier Corps troops patrolling party on Bannu-Miran Shah road in North Waziristan of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

NHS England's medical director Stephen Powis said vaccines were not the only component of an exit strategy from lockdown.

All three places had initially banned travelers only from Hubei province, in China. But as virus hot spots developed in other places, the governments increasingly expanded travel restrictions or mandatory quarantine measures to encompass the rest of the w...

Top oil producers struggled to finalise production cuts during a virtual summit held by G20 energy ministers on Friday, despite US President Donald Trump's mediation efforts to end a standoff with Mexico.