COVID-19 has claimed over 4,200 lives and infected more than 117,330 people across 107 countries and territories. And global stock markets have been sinking despite central banks putting in effort to ease the effects of the outbreak. In the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, the global markets have been observing a mass sell-off wherein shelves…

WASHINGTON: The first human trial to evaluate a candidate vaccine against coronavirus disease 2019 has begun in Seattle, US health officials said on Monday. “The open-label trial will enroll 45 healthy adult volunteers ages 18 to 55 years over approximately 6 weeks. The first participant received the investigational vaccine today,” the US National Institutes of…

JERUSALEM: Israel swore in its newly elected parliament on Monday under stringent restrictions because of the coronavirus outbreak, in a surreal ceremony reflecting the country’s unprecedented dual crisis in politics and public health. Instead of the typical festive gathering of parliament’s 120, the new lawmakers took the oath of office in groups of three over…

US government moved to clamp down movement of citizens while announcing curfews in New Jersey state and San Francisco due to the rapid spread of coronavirus in the country. As the shutdown continued and major airlines hit, President Trump indicated that the US “maybe” heading towards a recession. Across the country, bars, cinemas, restaurants, schools…

NEW YORK: Lockheed Martin named James Taiclet as chief executive of the world’s biggest defense company to replace Marillyn Hewson, the company announced on Monday. Taiclet (59), a board member at Lockheed since 2018, has most recently led the real estate investment trust American Tower, previously working as Honeywell and serving in the United States…

LAGOS: The death toll from a suspected gas explosion that tore through a residential area of Nigeria’s biggest city Lagos rose to 19 on Monday as emergency services dug bodies from the debris. The blast next to an oil pipeline destroyed buildings, lorries and cars as it tore through a residential area of the sprawling…

ISLAMABAD: A former Pakistani diplomat has claimed that ex-prime minister Nawaz Sharif had barred the foreign ministry from speaking against India and death-row convict Kulbhushan Jadhav as part of the policy of going soft on New Delhi. Tasneem Aslam, who served for a second term as Foreign Office spokesperson from 2013 to 2017, made the…

After Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government set its sights on critical news outlet OdaTV, several of its journalists now face harsh prison sentences. Is Turkey’s president using a secret group to control judges?It was one of those moments that once again showed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s seemingly limitless power. On a return flight from a…

BERLIN: Germany cannot allow other countries to “exclusively” acquire the results of its researchers, the country’s Foreign Minister Heiko Maas told the Funke media group on Monday. On Sunday, German newspaper Welt am Sonntag reported that US President Donald Trump had attempted to lure scientists from German company CureVac, which is researching a coronavirus vaccine,…

Failure on all fronts – the virus has brought chaos to EU governments and institutions. Solidarity has fallen by the wayside. It is time things changed, says DW’s Barbara Wesel.Run for your lives – that seemed to be European governments’ motto at the beginning of the coronavirus crisis. They were uncoordinated, and everyone introduced measures…

Germany and France are implementing unprecedented levels of restrictions. President Macron has urged citizens to stay at home and closed France’s borders while Germany’s social life grinds to a halt. Quickclaritynews has the latest. French President Macron has warned people to “severely restrict movements for the next 15 days at least,” limiting social contacts, and…

PARIS: The number of novel coronavirus cases globally stood at 175,530 with 7,007 deaths, across 145 countries and territories at 10:30 pm (IST) on Monday, according to a tally compiled by AFP from official sources. Since 10:30 pm on Sunday there were 587 new deaths reported and 11,597 new cases globally. The tallies, using data…

Walt Disney Co will close its theme parks in California and Florida and its resort in Paris from this weekend through the end of the month due to the global outbreak of coronavirus, the company said on Thursday. Disney Cruise Line will suspend all new departures starting Saturday through the end of the month, the…

The new coronavirus treatment has had a very positive effect on some patients, although it has not been tested on controlled conditions or on a comparable basis. New Delhi, March 16: Amidst the worldwide havoc of coronavirus, scientists in Australia claim to have found a cure for the dreaded disease. These scientists claim that the test…