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The UK government thinking "very, very actively" about stricter policies on social distancing. In a round up on the Coronavirus, 281 people with the virus...

The UAE is suspending all passenger and transit flights for two weeks, while Saudi Arabia has imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew to curb the spread...

Regional hospitals in Sweden are implementing military protocols, borrowed from NATO. It is part of efforts to prepare for the worst-case scenario resulting from the...

Cafes, pubs and restaurants must close from Friday night, except for take-away food, to tackle coronavirus, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said. All the...

The coronavirus pandemic is expected to get worse before it gets better, a global health expert warned, stressing the best way individuals can limit the spread...

South Korea, China and Singapore are among the Asian countries facing a second coronavirus wave, fuelled by people importing it from outside. China, where the...

The US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin has said the administration is working on a big economic stimulus package, reported to be worth some $850bn,...

Iran said its coronavirus death toll surpassed 1,000 on Wednesday as President Hassan Rouhani defended the response of his administration, which has yet to impose a...

The coronavirus has now infected more than 200,000 people and killed more than 8,000 globally, with almost 80,000 people having recovered from the infection. According...

Senate legislation to protect children from sexual exploitation online is being dragged into a larger fight over privacy and encryption. The bill in question, the...