Geneva, April 10 (IANS) The fatality rate of COVID-19 is estimated to be 10 times higher than influenza, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson holds a news conference addressing the government's response to the coronavirus outbreak, at Downing Street in London, Britain March 12, 2020. REUTERS/Simon Dawson/Poo
Ambulances are seen lined up outside The Samaritan's Purse Emergency Field Hospital in Central Park in Manhattan during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in New York City, New York, U.S., April
Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa, apostolic administrator of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem stands at the entrance to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre amid restrictions due to the coronavirus disease (CO
Rome, April 10 (IANS) Italy's COVID-19 death toll rose by 610 in the last 24 hours to 18,279, the highest in the world, even as pressure on the country's hospitals continued to ease with a fall in the numb
Washington, April 10 (IANS) US President Donald Trump said that he has directed his Agriculture Secretary to "expedite help" to American farmers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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London, April 10 (IANS) UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson "must rest up" after he was moved from intensive care with coronavirus, his father said on Friday.
The Prime Minister was admitted to the St Thoma
Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak holds a COVID-19 Digital Press Conference at 10 Downing Street in London, Britain on April 8, 2020. (REUTERS Photo)
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A man walks with his pet dog as he talks to a vendor who sells dog meat at a market during the local dog meat festival in Yulin, Guangxi Autonomous Region, China on June 21, 2018. (REUTERS File Photo)
A man wears protective mask as he walks past a propaganda banner promoting prevention against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Hanoi, Vietnam on April 3, 2020. (REUTERS Photo)
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Post-it notes are seen inside a convention center that was used as a makeshift hospital to treat patients with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Wuhan, Hubei province, China on April 9. (REUTERS Photo)
Afghan govt formation impasse on as rivals prepare to take oath. (IANS File Photo)
KABUL, APRIL 9 (IANS): The Afghanistan government has released a first batch of 100 Taliban&nb
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UNITED NATIONS, APRIL 9 (IANS): The economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic could increase global poverty by as much a half a billion, said a UN study into the financial and
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DHAKA, APRIL 9 (IANS): The mercy petition of a man who has been sentenced to death for the killing of Bangladesh's founding President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, has been rejected by inc
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WASHINGTON, APRIL 9 (IANS): An US civil servant whose revealed the affair between former US President Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, a White House intern, has died, it
U.S. President Donald Trump addresses the daily coronavirus task force briefing at the White House in Washington, US on April 7, 2020. (REUTERS Photo)
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Vital Kamerhe, leader of the Union for the Congolese Nation (UNC) party, attends a meeting with Congo's Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) and observers from the Southern African Development Commu
A Houthi supporter looks on as he carries a weapon during a gathering in Sanaa, Yemen on April 2, 2020. (REUTERS File Photo)
DUBAI/RIYADH, April 9 (Reuters): The Saudi-led coalition fighting Y
Parked school buses are seen after California issued a stay-at-home order as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in Los Angeles, California, US on April 3, 2020. (REUTERS Photo)
Judy Boifuana hikes in the jungle near Igwa village on the island of Malaita, Solomon Islands on September 18, 2019. (Thomson Reuters Foundation File Photo)
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