Mar 24, 2020

LONDON (Reuters) - History would judge whether Britain had acted too slowly to stop the spread of the coronavirus but the important thing now was to follow new restrictions, senior minister Michael Go...

Mar 24, 2020

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia reported 106 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday, taking the total to 1,624, with 15 deaths. The Ministry of Health said 43 of the new cases were linked to a mass rel...

Mar 24, 2020

By Jonnelle Marte and Barbara Goldberg NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nearly one in three Americans was under orders on Sunday to stay home to slow the spread of the coronavirus pandemic as Ohio, Louisiana a...

Mar 24, 2020

By Stephanie Kelly and Doina Chiacu NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Several more U.S. governors on Monday joined the procession of states ordering millions of Americans to stay at home to slow the ...

Mar 24, 2020

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Laos has recorded its first two coronavirus cases, a news report on Thai state-owned media MCOT said on Tuesday, citing the Laos Health Ministry. The two cases include a 28-year...

Mar 24, 2020

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand has recorded 106 new coronavirus cases and three more deaths, a health official said on Tuesday. The country now has 827 cases and 4 fatalities since the outbreak began...

Mar 24, 2020

By Marisa Taylor WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Several months before the coronavirus pandemic began, the Trump administration eliminated a key American public health position in Beijing intended to help d...

Mar 24, 2020

ZURICH (Reuters) - Roche reiterated on Tuesday that only those showing signs and symptoms of coronavirus-caused COVID-19 should be tested, as the Swiss drugmaker has said there is insufficient capacit...

Mar 24, 2020

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's government on Tuesday announced 20 new cases of the coronavirus, bringing the total to 215. All new cases were imported, with the patients having traveled to countries i...

Mar 24, 2020

PARIS (Reuters) - Biomérieux, a French healthcare company specialising in diagnostics, said on Tuesday that it had won approval from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) for its 'biofire®' ...

Mar 24, 2020

By Praveen Menon WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern urged New Zealanders on Tuesday to reduce contacts to a bare minimum to help fight the coronavirus, as the country prepared for...

Mar 24, 2020

Points of Interest Regarding COVID-19 For Gastroenterologists Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a respiratory illness caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-...

Mar 23, 2020

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico had 367 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the country on Monday, up from 316 the day before, deputy health secretary Hugo Lopez-Gatell said, with a total of four deaths....

Mar 23, 2020

HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba's government said on Monday it was banning Cubans from leaving the country, closing schools and suspending interregional public transport in its fight to prevent the spread of ...

Mar 23, 2020

MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippine health ministry on Tuesday confirmed 39 new cases of the coronavirus, bringing the country's total to 501. The number of patients who have died from the virus is 3...

Mar 23, 2020

By Alexandra Ulmer and Francis Mascarenhas MUMBAI (Reuters) - Shaikh Bahaduresha, 31, lived on Mumbai's streets for two months last year, unable to make ends meet on his meager taxi-driving profits...

Mar 23, 2020

By Rich McKay ATLANTA (Reuters) - U.S. textile and garment companies that normally make sweatshirts or fabric for patio umbrellas are changing tack in the coronavirus pandemic, heeding a White Hous...

Mar 23, 2020

(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc is teaming up with a research program funded by Bill Gates to pick up and deliver coronavirus test kits in Seattle, the e-commerce giant said on Monday. The Seattle Coron...

Mar 23, 2020

By Manas Mishra and Michael Erman (Reuters) - U.S. drugmakers Eli Lilly and Co and Bristol Myers Squibb said they are delaying the start of new clinical trials in part to free up doctors and health...

Mar 23, 2020

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese biopharmaceutical firm Anges Inc said on Tuesday that it and Osaka University had completed development of a DNA vaccine against the new coronavirus and that it would begin ...