Mumbai, For a solitary physically-challenged 25-year-old Mumbai woman, Virali Modi, Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh had a pleasant surprise on Wednesday: curfew passes for her help and driver.

Virali's predicament started after a national lockdown was imposed since Tuesday which prevented her driver an

Panaji, The three patients who tested positive for COVID-19 have been shifted to the designated coronavirus hospital in Goa and health authorities in the state are in the process of quarantining the persons they were in contact with, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said on Thursday.

The trio aged between 25 and 55 ye

New York, Coronavirus could very well become a "seasonal, cyclical" infection, based on the patterns it is exhibiting through its spread in the southern hemisphere, according to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top infectious diseases scientist on the White House coronavirus task force.

"It totally emphasises

New York, The number of COVID-19 cases in the US topped 60,000 as of 3.30 p.m., US Eastern Time on Wednesday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.

The fresh figure reached 62,068 with 869 deaths, the CSSE said, Xinhua reported.

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Rome, The coronavirus pandemic has claimed 7,503 lives in Italy, while the cumulative number of confirmed cases have reached 74,386, Italian authorities said.

Active infections grew by 3,491 cases on the daily basis, bringing the total active infections to 57,521 since the epidemic broke out in the northern region

Paris, Declaring a war against "an invisible enemy", French President Emmanuel Macron has announced an army operation "Resilience" to back the fight against the coronavirus pandemic and support the population.

"We are at war and faced with the peak of the epidemic which is before us, I dec

Beijing, As a bus departed from its terminus at Hankou Railway Station at 5.25 a.m. on Wednesday morning, Wuhan started to resume bus service after nine weeks of lockdown.

Apart from a driver, a safety supervisor was also on each bus, whose duty was to make sure all passengers are healthy as their health code show

Washington, US Secretary of Defence Mark Esper has issued an order to stop movements of overseas US forces for up to 60 days to curb the spread of the coronavirus among military, according to media reports.

In an interview on Wednesday with a media outlet, the Pentagon chief said the order applied to all US forces

Paris, France, the fifth-worst coronavirus-hit nation in the the world and the third in Europe, on Wednesday reported over 200 more deaths, taking the number over 1,300 amid apprehensions that the toll could rise more steeply when fatalities outside hospitals are counted.

As many as 231 new deaths have taken the c

Hyderabad, A three-year-old is among two Covid-19 positive cases reported in Telangana on Wednesday, health officials said.

The male child recently returned with his parents from Saudi Arabia. He has been admitted to a hospital where his condition is stated to be stable.

A 43-year-old woman from Hyd