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Tashkent/Sputnik: Uzbekistan's Health Ministry has confirmed 10 new coronavirus cases on Friday, bringing the overall number of cases in the Central Asian country to 33. more
COVID-19: WHO working on supply pipeline for protective equipment and tests

New York/IBNS: For the first time since the COVID-19 outbreak began last December, China has reported no domestic cases of the disease, the head of the UN World Health Organization (WHO) ...

UN body underscores priority of health, safety during ‘unprecedented’ COVID-19 challenges

New York : Confronted with widespread human, social, and economic ramifications surrounding COVID-19, the President of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) stressed the ...

Preventing discrimination against people with disabilities in COVID-19 response

New York : Unless Governments and communities take action, discrimination against people with disabilities could increase during the COVID-19 pandemic, an expert with the World Health Org ...

Pakistan: Amid doubts over properly tackling COIVD19 menace two deaths reported

Islamabad: Amid reports that Pakistan is unable to properly maintain a setup needed to tackle COVID 19 spread, the country, which witnessed a massive increase in the number of infected pa ...

Pakistan records 453 COVID19 patients, Shia pilgrims returning from Iran in lurch

Islamabad: Amid rising concerns that the Pakistan government is lacking in its efforts to implement proper medical amenities needed to combat Coronavirus outbreak in the country, the numb ...

UN health chief announces global ‘solidarity trial’ to jumpstart search for COVID-19 treatment

New York: Just 60 days after the genetic sequence of COVID-19 was shared by China, the first vaccine trial has begun, the UN health chief said on Wednesday, calling it “an incredibl ...

UN agriculture agency staff continue to strive for a better world amid Italy COVID-19 lockdown

New York : Italy has been hit hard by the COVID-19 outbreak, with nearly 28,000 confirmed cases of the disease and 2,503 deaths, according to latest statistics from the World Health Organ ...

Number of people infected with novel coronavirus globally exceeds 191,000 - WHO

Moscow/Sputnik: Over 15,100 people have gotten infected with the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) globally over the past day, bringing the total number of confirmed cases above 191,10 ...

Chile declares state of catastrophe over COVID-19

Santiago/Xinhua: Chilean President Sebastian Pinera declared a 90-day state of catastrophe to step up the government's action to combat the COVID-19 epidemic that has so far infected ...