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BEVERLY HILLS, April 07, (THEWILL) - Japan has declared a month-long state of emergency over a spike in coronavirus cases, ramping up efforts to contain infections but stopping short of the strict lockdowns seen in other parts of the...

SAN FRANCISCO, April 06, (THEWILL) - Nadia, a 4-year-old Malayan female tiger at the New York City’s Bronx Zoo, has tested positive for COVID-19, becoming the world’s first case of a non-domesticated animal being infected with the virus. This was...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been admitted to hospital for tests, 10 days after testing positive for coronavirus, Downing Street has said. He was taken to a London hospital on Sunday evening with "persistent symptoms" - including a temperature. It is...

SAN FRANCISCO, April 05, (THEWILL) - China has sold nearly four billion masks to foreign countries since March, officials said Sunday, as they tried to stem widespread fears over the quality of medical exports. Despite Chinese cases dwindling, Beijing has...

BEVERLY HILLS, April 01, (THEWILL) - The Dutch government has recalled over half a million face masks it imported from China after discovering that they were faulty. The Netherlands said on Saturday that it had asked its hospitals to return...

The captain of the U.S. aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt, in a blunt letter, has called on Navy leadership for stronger measures to save the lives of his sailors and stop the spread of the coronavirus aboard the huge ship. The...

BEVERLY HILLS, April 01, (THEWILL) - The former President of the Republic of Congo, Jacques Joaquim Yhombi-Opango, has died in Paris from complications related to coronavirus. He was 81 years old. His family said he had been ill before contracting...

BEVERLY HILLS, April 01, (THEWILL) - Italy tops as the worldwide number of officially confirmed fatalities from the novel coronavirus has risen to 41,072, according to a tally compiled by AFP from official sources as of 1900 GMT on...

BEVERLY HILLS, March 30, (THEWILL) - A chartered medical evacuation flight carrying coronavirus emergency medical supplies on Sunday crashed during takeoff in Manila Philippines. The plane was heading to Japan amid the coronavirus outbreak crashed and exploded. According to the Manila...

BEVERLY HILLS, March 29, (THEWILL) - Thomas Schaefer, the finance minister of Germany’s Hesse state, has committed suicide apparently after becoming “deeply worried” over how to cope with the economic fallout from the coronavirus, state premier Volker Bouffier said...