UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been able to walk for a short distance as his recovery from coronavirus continues in a ward at the St Thomas Hospital here after being discharged from the intensive care unit, a Downing Street spokesman said. ....

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte extended national lockdown to May 3 extended the country's national coronavirus lockdown by "at least" additional 20 days to May 3. ....

As the world deals with the coronavirus crisis, the Managing Director of International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva has said that the world may face the worst economic fallout since the Great Depression of the 1930s. ....

Italy's coronavirus death toll rose by 610 in the last 24 hours to 18,279, the highest in the world, even as pressure on the country's hospitals continued to ease with a fall in the number of patients in intensive care units, the Civil Protection Agency said. ....

UK Prime Minister Borish Johnson has been moved out of intensive care unit, a spokesperson for the UK Prime Minister said. ....

As coronavirus rapidly spreading in every corner of the globe, Chinese researchers have found that newborns infected with coronavirus in China experienced mild symptoms, and the babies may be at risk of catching the virus from their mother during pregnancy. ....

Urging people to maintain social distancing to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has warned that the situation in the country due to the pandemic could worsen in the days to come, it was reported on Thursday. ....

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres underscored the necessity of the World Health Organization (WHO) during the coronavirus crisis in the face of a threat by US President Donald Trump to withhold funds for the UN agency. ....

Global confirmed coronavirus cases surpassed 1.5 million on Wednesday afternoon local time, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University. ....

"Please quarantine politicizing COVID. If we want to win, we shouldn't waste time pointing fingers," World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged here, saying "Unity is the only option to defeat this virus." ....