COVID-19

California was placed under lockdown in the most drastic step yet by a US state to contain the fast-spreading coronavirus…

MAKASSAR, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia halted a mass congregation of nearly 9,000 Muslim pilgrims and began quarantining them and checking…

JERUSALEM (Reuters) — Civil liberties activists asked Israel’s Supreme Court on Thursday to suspend cellphone monitoring put in place under…

DUBAI (Reuters) — Qatar’s old industrial zone has emerged as a hot spot for coronavirus in the Gulf Arab state,…

(Reuters) — Struck down by coronavirus at the age of 83, the long life of Alfredo Visioli ended with a…

Egypt’s Health Minister Hala Zayed announced during the Cabinet weekly meeting on Thursday that the ministry was working on improving…

MBC Masr channel launched on Thursday a campaign entitled “Fi al-Beit Khalek..we hanslek” (Stay home..We will entertain you), calling on people…

Johns Hopkins University has made a breakthrough that would allow testing 1,000 people for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) per day,…

DUBAI (Reuters) — Iran’s death toll from coronavirus jumped to 1,284 on Thursday, the health ministry said, with the total…

Egypt’s Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly moved on Thursday to close all restaurants, cafes, cafeterias, casinos, nightclubs, bars, malls, shops and…