Italy rushes to promote new doctors to relieve coronavirus crisis
Italy will rush 10,000 student doctors into service, scrapping their final exams, in an effort to help the struggling health service cope with the coronavirus...
Canada to give income support during coronavirus outbreak
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Tuesday that the Canadian government would provide financial support to people as he urged them to stay at home...
Exclusive: Amazon warehouses receive only vital supplies in U.S., Europe amid coronavirus
Amazon.com Inc will only receive vital supplies at its U.S. and UK and other European warehouses until April 5, its latest move to free up...
U.S. tech firms work together to combat virus misinformation
U.S. technology companies, including Microsoft Corp, Facebook, Alphabet’s Google, and Twitter, are working together to quell misinformation about the coronavirus on their platforms, the companies...
Armed with lessons from Ebola, Africa braces for coronavirus surge
When a passenger arriving from Brussels at Cameroon’s Yaounde Nsimalen airport on Saturday was found to have a temperature, health officials say he was whisked...
Cinemas, theaters and concert halls fall silent in Britain
British cinema chains, theaters and arts venues began closing their doors on Tuesday as the entertainment industry adopted the government’s latest guidance aimed at trying...
Coronavirus restrictions could lead to U.S. blood shortage in two weeks: blood banks group
About half of the blood centers in the United States are already reporting low inventory levels and the country could see shortages in about two...
Mnuchin: U.S. looking to get checks to Americans ‘immediately’
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Tuesday said as part of a stimulus package being mulled in congress is cutting physical checks for the American...
Coronavirus will eventually ‘crash onto healthcare system’: Cuomo
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday said the coronavirus outbreak ‘curve’ will ‘turn into a wave and the wave is going to crash onto...
Sudan orders arrest of former foreign minister over 1989 coup
The Sudanese prosecutor’s office on Tuesday ordered the arrest of former foreign minister Ali Karti for his role in the 1989 coup which brought Omar...