U.S. President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo listen as Vice President Mike Pence addresses the Trump administration's daily coronavirus task force briefing while holding up a chart reading "15
ROME, March 21 (Reuters) - Italy imposed further draconian restrictions on public life on Friday in an increasingly desperate effort to halt coronavirus infections after the death toll leapt by 627 in a single
Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends a news conference on the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in Geneva, Switzerland February 6, 2020. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
Staff in protective suits accompany passengers outside a centralized facility for screening and registration near the Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing as the country is hit by an outbreak of the
Commuters wait for a transport to leave the Woodlands Causeway across to Singapore from Johor, hours before Malaysia imposes a lockdown on travel due to the coronavirus outbreak March 17, 2020. REUT
Margaret Hildebrandt, 93, poses for a photo while in self-quarantine due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) fears in her home in Sunderland, Maryland, US on March 18, 2020. (REUTERS Photo)
Saudi Arabia's central bank governor Ahmed al-Kholifey speaks at an economic conference, where finance leaders of the world's 20 largest economies are gathered, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on February 22, 2020
An elderly man, working as a packer at a supermarket, wears a protective face mask as a security measure for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Mexico City, Mexico on March 17, 2020. (REUTERS Photo)
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General view of a man in a street in Sorrento as Italy remains under a nationwide lockdown in a government decree that orders Italians to stay at home, in Sorrento, Italy on March 19, 2020. (REUTERS Photo)
A woman walks past a TV broadcasting file footage for a news report on North Korea firing an unidentified projectile, in Seoul, South Korea on March 9, 2020. (REUTERS File Photo)
SEOUL, March
General view of a man in a street in Sorrento as Italy remains under a nationwide lockdown in a government decree that orders Italians to stay at home, in Sorrento, Italy, March 19, 2020. REUTERS/Ciro De Luca
Beijing, March 20 (IANS) China reported no new domestically transmitted novel coronavirus cases for the second consecutive day on Friday, marking a major turning point in the global battle against the COVID-19
New York, March 20 (IANS) Anti-malaria drug Hydroxychloroquine is being touted by US President Donald Trump as a possible gamechanger in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, with "very very encouraging r
The Ascent Abort-2 flight test of NASA's Orion spacecraft's emergency launch abort system lifts off from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., July 2, 2019. REUTERS/Thom Baur/Fi
A girl eats as she sits next to a handwashing station, while she sells fruits at the entrance of a medical center in Pikine, on the outskirts of Dakar, Senegal on March 9, 2020. (REUTERS File Photo)
General view of Tehran city, following the outbreak of coronavirus, Iran on March 17, 2020. (REUTERS Photo)
DUBAI, March 19 (Reuters): The new coronavirus kills one person every 10 minutes in
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks during the international conference on "Unilateralism and International Law" in Tehran, Iran on October 21, 2019. (IANS File Photo)
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People wearing protective face masks walk in a park, following an outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Shanghai, China on March 18, 2020. (REUTERS Photo)
SHANGHAI, March 19 (Reu
A security guard wearing a face mask walks past the Bund Financial Bull statue, following an outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), on The Bund in Shanghai, China on March 18, 2020. (REUTERS Phot
WASHINGTON, March 19 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump moved on Wednesday to accelerate production of desperately needed medical equipment to battle the coronavirus pandemic and said an estimate tha