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PM Johnson said on Wednesday a "world-beating" programme to test and trace those suspected of having been in contact with people who have tested positive for Covid-19 would be in place by June 1.

Parkour athlete Alireza Japalaghy had posted a series of photos and videos last week showing him and an unidentified woman in revealing outfits hanging off buildings and kissing.

Researchers said an approach of alternating stricter measures with intervals of relaxed social distancing could be enforced with measures of effective 'test-contact trace-isolate.'

Researchers, including those from the University of Nicosia in Cyprus, said a good baseline for studying the airborne transmission of viruses, like the one behind the Covid-19 pandemic, is a deeper understanding of how particles travel through the air whe...

Police said the father of one of the victims and the other victim's brother were arrested Sunday and confessed to killing the women.

Unlike the Security Council, the UN General Assembly has adopted two pandemic-related resolutions to call for equal access to any future vaccines.

The European Union's 27-member bloc and other countries, meanwhile, called for an independent evaluation of WHO's initial response to the coronavirus pandemic to review experience gained and lessons learned.

Scientists are still trying to determine whether the syndrome is linked with the new coronavirus because not all children with it have tested positive for the virus.

Like Covid-19, the Spanish Flu pathogen was a novel coronavirus which attacked the respiratory mechanism of an infected person. The similarity between the two ends here.

The figure followed Sunday's toll of 776, the lowest daily tally since March, though major concerns remain over the number of deaths continuing to climb.

Nurses, who are being recognised as heroes, have long awaited recognition as health care professionals in their own right and not ancillary to physicians. It’s wonderful to be recognised now in the context of coronavirus, but nurses have always been at th...

Every district in the city has been told to submit a detailed testing plan by Tuesday for their respective area.

No one immediately claimed responsibility for the bombings and their targets remained unknown.

The museum, dedicated to the history of the British capital, launched an appeal for Londoners to donate items that reflect their lives during the Covid-19 outbreak.

In recent weeks, the Donald Trump administration has repeatedly lashed out at China over its handling of the outbreak, questioning its death toll and criticising its early response to the virus.

Latest reports have shown Khuzestan red along with a few other provinces, including the capital Tehran and the Shiite clerical centre of Qom, where Iran reported its first cases in February.