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Edinburgh/Sputnik: Face covering will become mandatory in Scotland starting July 10 as phase three of coronavirus restrictions lifting will go into effect, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Thursday. more
Vietnam records no new COVID-19 cases, total confirmed cases remain at 355

Hanoi/Xinhua: Vietnam's Ministry of Health reported no new cases of COVID-19 infection on Wednesday, with its total confirmed cases remaining at 355 with zero deaths so far.

Pause before sharing, to help stop viral spread of COVID-19 misinformation

New York : The UN is asking people to make the same judgement calls they’ve been applying to social distancing, to social media, and take extra care before sharing.

US approved 4 COVID-19 vaccine candidates for clinical trials: FDA Head

Washington/Sputnik: The United States has approved four coronavirus vaccine candidates for clinical trials, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) head Stephen Hahn told reporters.

Brazil reports over 1.4 million COVID-19 cases, with 59,594 deaths

Rio De Janeiro/Xinhua: The Brazilian Health Ministry on Tuesday raised the national count of COVID-19 cases to 1,402,041 with 59,594 deaths.

Amid COVID-19 outbreak, new swine flu with 'pandemic potential' found in China

A new strain of the H1N1 swine flu virus is spreading among workers in pig firms in China and needs to be 'urgently' controlled, scientists have warned.

COVID-19 pandemic ‘not even close to being over’, WHO chief warns

New York : Nearly six months after the new coronavirus first emerged, the COVID-19 pandemic is “not even close to being over”, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) ...

Food is best vaccine against chaos, insists UN World Food Programme head

New York : Tens of millions more people are likely to go hungry this year because of the COVID-19 crisis, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Monday, as it announced plans for a mas ...

Beijing reports 7 new confirmed COVID-19 cases

Beijing/Xinhua: Beijing reported seven new confirmed domestically-transmitted COVID-19 cases and one asymptomatic case on Monday, the municipal health commission said Tuesday.

British media reports claim massive import of COVID-19 cases in UK are from Pakistan

London: Certains section of the British media have claimed that  half of Britain's most-recent imported coronavirus cases are believed to have come from Pakistan.