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A pharmacy tech holds a bottle and a pill of Hydroxychloroquine. (AFP)

France bans hydroxychloroquine for coronavirus treatment

Under the new French rules, the drug can be used only in clinical trials to test its efficacy against coronavirus

27 May 2020 3:42 PM IST

People sunbathe in Ostia beach, near Rome. (AP)

Europeans soak up the sun but travel rules cause confusion

European countries aim to open their borders for European travel in mid-June, but it isn't clear when intercontinental...

25 May 2020 9:46 AM IST

A health staff member instructs patients to stop as Seine-Saint-Denis French department inhabitants wait to be tested for the novel coronavirus Covid-19 at a free mobile testing site in Clichy-sous-Bois. (AFP)

Patient tally continues to fall in France

Two weeks after lifting lockdown, France had an increase of 0.2%, below the average 0.3% increase of the past seven days...

24 May 2020 3:42 PM IST

$Britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson participates in a national \clap for carers\ to show thanks for the work of Britains NHS (National Health Service) workers and other frontline medical staff around the country as they battle with the novel coronavirus pandemic. (AFP)$ World

UK confident COVID-19 tracking system will be in place before lockdown...

Health workers have warned that any failure in tracing people with the virus and their contacts would result in a second...

22 May 2020 3:29 PM IST

United Kingdom government accused of coronavirus testing failures. (AFP Photo)

UK government accused of coronavirus testing failures

The UK authorities initially sought to trace and test everyone who had been in contact with people infected with the...

19 May 2020 3:52 PM IST

Members of a coronavirus testing station stand on the factory premises of the Westfleisch meat processing company in Hamm, western Germany. (AFP)

Alarm as another German slaughterhouse hit by coronavirus outbreak

Germany has grown increasingly concerned about the meat industry as a hotbed of new coronavirus infections

18 May 2020 2:12 PM IST

People cycle through Parliament Square in central London on May 17, 2020, following an easing of lockdown rules in England. (AFP)

US, Europe weighs reopening risks sans vaccine

Health experts say the world could be months, if not years, away from having a vaccine available to everyone

18 May 2020 12:22 PM IST

Bosnian riot policemen stand outside the Sacred Heart Cathedral in Sarajevo, Bosnia, ahead of the commemoration Mass for Croatian pro-Nazis killed at the end of World War II. (AP)

Bosnia Church holds Mass for Croatia's pro-Nazi WWII regime

The Mass provoked outrage from most political parties, Jewish leaders the Serbian Orthodox Church and anti-fascist NGOs

16 May 2020 4:37 PM IST

A medic uses a thermal screening device on a boy during a door-to-door survey to detect COVID-19 cases in Nagaon district in Assam. (PTI)

Medics around the world face hostility over virus stigma

In countries like India, Egypt, Mexico and elsewhere, some doctors and nurses are intimidated and treated like pariahs...

16 May 2020 1:55 PM IST

A worker in protective gear sanitizes the exterior of Saint John in Lateran Basilica, in Rome. (AP)

Italy to allow international travel from June 3

In a bid to contain the contagion, Italy was the first European country to impose nationwide restrictions in March

16 May 2020 11:15 AM IST

Nurses hold newborn babies wearing face shields, as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. (AFP)

Lockdown delays these surrogate babies from reaching their mothers

With the lockdown in place, most parents have only seen their newborns through pictures and video calls with the clinic

15 May 2020 10:30 AM IST

Representational Image. (AFP)

France calls foul as Sanofi announces that US will get virus vaccine...

Sanofi sparked controversy after announcing that US patients would get their vaccine first as US government was helping...

14 May 2020 4:43 PM IST