People maintain social distance as they wait for food distributed by the volunteers during the thirty-six days of the lockdown imposed by the government amid concerns about the spread of coronavirus disease (CO
A woman waves a French flag from a window to support healthcare workers amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Saint-Mande, near Paris, France on May 5. (REUTERS Photo)
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Women wearing protective face masks as a preventive measure against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) walk at a traditional market in Jakarta, Indonesia on May 5, 2020. (REUTERS Photo)
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Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves 10 Downing Street, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), London, Britain on May 6. (REUTERS Photo)
LONDON, May 6 (Reuters)
Russian Minister of Culture Olga Lyubimova attends a government meeting chaired by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin in Moscow, Russia on January 21, 2020. (REUTERS File Photo)
MOSCOW, May 6 (Reuter
GENEVA, May 6 (Reuters): At least 90,000 health-care workers worldwide are believed to have been infected with COVID-19, and possibly twice that, amid reports of continuing shortages of protective equipmen
Women use their cellphones while sitting on a picnic blanket at Sun Park during Labour Day holiday, following an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Beijing, China May 5, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Gar
Washington, May 6 (IANS) An ousted US vaccine agency official filed a whistleblower complaint alleging his early warnings about the coronavirus were ignored and that his caution at a treatment favoured by Presi
United Nations, May 6 (IANS) An estimated 19 million children, more than ever before, were living in displacement within their own countries due to conflict and violence in 2019 -- some of them for years, accor
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Washington, May 6 (IANS) The number of COVID-19 cases in the United States reached 1,201,337 as of 6 p.m. (2200 GMT) Tuesday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (C
Washington, May 6 (IANS) Top US infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci said that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, could not have been artificially or deliberately manipulated.
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Washington, May 5 (IANS): A woman in the US state of Michigan has been charged along with her husband and son with killing a security guard who refused her daughter entry to a shop because she was not wearing a
Jerusalem, May 5 (IANS): Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR) has developed an antibody which can neutralise the virus responsible for COVID-19 within the bodies of those infected, the country's Defe
Victor Guzman and Melba Jimenez, a couple with 37 adopted children, take time to read the Bible and pray as they undergo self-quarantine together in their home during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney speaks to media in a count centre, during Ireland's national election, in Cork, Ireland on February 9, 2020. (REUTERS File Photo)
DUBLIN, May 6
Singaporean man rescued in Fiji after 2 months at sea. (IANS Photo)
SUVA, MAY 5 (IANS): A Singaporean man was rescued in Fiji after being stranded at sea for two months in his yacht when he wa
Silhouette of mobile device user is seen next to a screen projection of binary code are seen in this picture illustration taken on March 28, 2018. (REUTERS File Photo)
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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters as he departs on travel to Phoenix, Arizona from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, US on May 5. (REUTERS Photo)
WASHINGTON, May 6
A logo is pictured on the headquarters of the World Health Organization (WHO) ahead of a meeting of the Emergency Committee on the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in Geneva, Switzerland on January 30, 2020.
Traffic moves along roads in Ahmedabad on March 21, 2020. (REUTERS File Photo)
SYDNEY, May 5 (Reuters): Coronavirus cases in Asia rose to a quarter of a million on Tuesday, according to a Reut