Prominent Arab journalist Abdul Bari Atwan has said that the US seeks to consolidate its control over Syria’s northeastern oil fields as Damascus is preoccupied with tackling the COVID -19 outbreak in the war-torn country.
Iran has marked its annual National Army day by replacing usual parades with a COVID -19 aid march of military vehicles designed and packed with supplies to help assist the country’s battle with the coronavirus.
China’s foreign ministry has rejected recent remarks by US President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that the novel coronavirus was first made in a lab in the city of Wuhan.
A record more than 20 million Americans have sought unemployment benefits amid shuttered stores and restaurants over the coronavirus pandemic in the United States, according to a report.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has announced Iran and China’s condemnation of the illegal and unilateral US sanctions against the Islamic Republic as the country is doing its best to bring under control a deadly outbreak of new coronavirus, known as COVID -19.
The number of people infected with the novel coronavirus in the world has risen to more than two million, out of whom over 130,000 have died, but experts believe the figures understate the true toll of the contagion.
"Since COVID -19 has spread in our country, we have decided to disinfect passengers and transit areas every day. In this regard, we have bought three disinfecting machines for passengers, said Mohammad Mahdi Karbalaei, the CEO of Imam Khomeini Airport City Co.
French President Emmanuel Macron extends the lockdown in his country to contain the coronavirus outbreak until May 11, but gives an assurance to the French nation that "better days" will come.
More than 117 million children could miss out on immunization against measles as the COVID -19 pandemic forces social distancing and piles pressure on health services, United Nations health agencies have warned.
At least 1,844,410 people are diagnosed with COVID -19 across the globe, and 114,090 others have so far died of the disease, according to the latest data collected by Johns Hopkins University.
Iran’s Secretary of the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution, Saied Reza Ameli, has called for the formation of a joint committee working against the COVID -19 pandemic in a letter to various world religious leaders.
Palestinians believe Israel is taking advantage of the disease caused by the coronavirus pandemic to grab more of their lands and to escalate aggression against the people of Palestine.
Britain has not yet reached the COVID -19 peak which would allow for an easing of tight restrictions of movement, health minister Matt Hancock said on Saturday.
US billionaire and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has warned that America will be in "big trouble" until the embattled country can come up with widespread testing for the coronavirus.
The central laboratory in the besieged Gaza Strip has run out of necessary supplies to process COVID -19 tests, the Palestinian health ministry says, as the densely-populated enclave faces a race against time to contain the fast-growing pandemic.
In New York City, an intensive care nurse treated patients for three days after she started displaying symptoms of COVID -19 - but couldn't get a test from her hospital.
The number of American sailors tested positive so far for the coronavirus on the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier has surged 13 percent to 155 within the past 24 hours, the US Navy has confirmed amid the sacking of the warship’s captain for publicizing the debacle.