Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin on Thursday said that he had tested positive for the novel coronavirus and will hence self-isolate. “I have just learned that the test on the coronavirus I took was positive,” Mishustin said in a video meeting with President Vladimir Putin, suggesting a deputy takes his place while he self-isolates. “I مزید پڑھیں

The United States has caught no sight of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and is watching reports about his health, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday, adding there was a real risk of famine in the country amid the coronavirus outbreak. North Korean media has not reported on Kim’s whereabouts since مزید پڑھیں

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) appreciated efforts by the Pakistani government to repatriate its citizens from the country on Tuesday, as coronavirus cases continue to surge in both countries. The remarks came during a virtual meeting between the UAE’s Minister of Human Resources and Emiratisation (MOHRE) Nasser bin Thani Al Hameli and Special Assistant to مزید پڑھیں

The Citizenship Amendment Act, passed in December by the Parliament in majority-Hindu India, violates religious freedom especially for Muslims, said the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom in its annual report released Tuesday. The rating came in the annual report of the body charged with monitoring religious freedom abroad and the U.S. government’s response. to مزید پڑھیں

Australia’s calls for an independent inquiry into the origins of COVID-19 is “reasonable” and not targeted at any specific country, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said. Australian-Chinese bilateral relations have soured in recent weeks after Morrison called for the inquiry into the origins of novel coronavirus. Morrison insisted his call was not an attempt to criticise مزید پڑھیں

US President Donald Trump suggested he may seek damages from China over the coronavirus pandemic which began in the Chinese city of Wuhan and spread around the world, prompting a furious response from Beijing on Tuesday. Beijing and Washington have clashed repeatedly over the outbreak as tensions have soared between the world’s two biggest economic مزید پڑھیں

Head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said the coronavirus pandemic is “far from over” and is still disrupting normal health services, especially life-saving immunisation for children in the poorest countries. The UN agency is concerned about rising numbers of cases and deaths in Africa, Eastern Europe, Latin America and some مزید پڑھیں

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been praised at home and abroad for her reaction to the coronavirus crisis, but as voices of discontent grow louder, support for the government’s strategy could be on the wane. Though Germany began to lift lockdown measures last week, Merkel has urged caution and slammed growing impatience to shake off مزید پڑھیں

Coronavirus crisis has left Italy’s northern economic powerhouse a disaster zone and raised awkward questions for Matteo Salvini’s League party. Ever since its creation as a separatist movement in the 1980s, the League’s heartland has been in the prosperous small towns of Lombardy around the financial capital Milan, the area that has now borne the مزید پڑھیں

A four-year-old Indian girl in Dubai has become one of the youngest people in the UAE to have recovered from coronavirus after walking free from hospital last week. The girl, known only as Sivani, was given a fitting send off by medical staff at Al Futtaim Health Hub on April 20, 20 days after being مزید پڑھیں