Explainer: Are asymptomatic COVID-19 patients safe or silent carriers?
China said 300 symptomless carriers of the novel coronavirus in Wuhan, the epicentre of the pandemic, had not been found to be infectious, in a...
Uganda health workers say they lack vital equipment to fight COVID-19
Ugandan medical workers say they lack adequate supplies of personal protective equipment for tackling COVID-19 and the risk of infection is making some reluctant to...
Airlines cut fares to help boost May traffic: IATA
Airlines cut domestic fares by an average 23% last month as traffic picked up from April lows, global airline body IATA said on Wednesday –...
Kremlin defends holding July vote that could extend Putin’s rule despite coronavirus
The Kremlin defended on Wednesday plans to hold a nationwide vote next month on constitutional reforms that could allow President Vladimir Putin to extend his...
Mortality spiked 155% in Spain in worst week of epidemic
New official data in Spain showed on Wednesday that many more people have died than usual this year than the recorded number of coronavirus fatalities...
Tel Aviv’s soccer stadium trials misting tunnel to disinfect players
Tel Aviv’s Bloomfield Stadium has installed a special tunnel to spray soccer players arriving for matches with a fine disinfectant mist to help prevent the...
Wall St. set for higher open on optimism over economic revival
Wall Street’s major indexes were set to open higher on Wednesday, with Nasdaq inching closer to a record high, as investors remained optimistic about an...
German bans digital doppelganger passport photos
Germany will outlaw the ‘morphing’ of passport photos, in which pictures of two people are digitally combined, making it possible to assign multiple identities to...
U.S. crowds defy curfew to protest Floyd’s death, but violence subsides
U.S. protesters ignored curfews overnight as they vented their anger over the death of an unarmed black man at the hands of police, but there...
Denmark arrests six people suspected of tax fraud, money laundering
Denmark’s state prosecutor for economic crime said on Wednesday it arrested six people in relation to suspected tax fraud and money laundering worth 220 million...