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Moscow/Sputnik: The organizing committee of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) has decided not to host the event in 2020 in light of the global spread of the deadly China coronavirus, committee's chairman Andrei Belousov said Thursday. more
SKorea's COVID-19 cases rise to 6,284, death toll at 43

Seoul/Xinhua: South Korea confirmed 518 more cases of the COVID-19 on Friday, raising the total number of infections to 6,284.

Coronavirus update: UN scales back major conference

New York : The organizing committee of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), a major UN conference scheduled to take place in March, has decided to cut the event down to a one-day ...

Coronavirus COVID-19 wipes $50 billion off global exports in February alone, as IMF pledges support for vulnerable nations

New York : The extent of the damage to the global economy caused by novel coronavirus COVID-19 moved further into focus on Wednesday as UN economists announced a likely $50 billion drop i ...

Beijing hospital confirms nervous system infections by novel coronavirus

Beijing/Xinhua: Chinese doctors have proved for the first time that the novel coronavirus can cause damage to patients' central nervous system.

‘We can’t stop COVID-19 without protecting health workers’: WHO chief

New York : A shortage of protective equipment is endangering health workers worldwide, warned the World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday, citing “severe and mounting disruption t ...

DR Congo: With Ebola on the wane, UN agencies prepare to combat coronavirus

New York : After more than a year of battling an Ebola virus outbreak that killed more than 2,200 people, UN officials are “cautiously optimistic” that the epidemic in the nor ...

World Bank Group announces up to $12 billion immediate support for COVID-19 country response

New York : As COVID-19 reaches more than 60 countries, the World Bank Group is making available an initial package of up to $12 billion in immediate support to assist countries coping wit ...

First coronavirus case registered in Poland

Warsaw/Sputnik: The first case of coronavirus was registered in Poland, Health Minister Lukasz Szumowski said on Tuesday.

Cure rates of COVID-19 patients in China climb for 19th consecutive day

Beijing/Xinhua: The proportion of patients who have recovered from COVID-19 in the virus-hit city of Wuhan, other places in Hubei Province, and other provincial-level regions in China out ...