WASHINGTON, July 22:  The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday indicted two Chinese nationals over their role in what the agency called a decade-long cyber espionage campaign that targeted defense contractors, COVID researchers and hundreds of other victims worldwide.

KATHMANDU, July 21: Entrepreneurs have announced that they are resuming the public transportation service inside the Kathmandu Valley from coming Thursday.

609 more patients discharged in the last 24 hours

37,000 new cases in India as more testing urged

Published On: July 21, 2020 01:00 PM NPT By: Associated Press

NEW DELHI, July 21: A surge of 37,140 new cases in the past 24 hours has taken India’s number of coronavirus infections to 1,155,191.

Two more Brazil ministers test positive for coronavirus

Published On: July 21, 2020 09:30 AM NPT By: Reuters

BRASILIA, July 21: Two more Brazilian government ministers said on Monday they had tested positive for the novel coronavirus, underscoring a struggle to limit the world’s second-worst outbreak even among the political elite.

CHICAGO, July 21: Early data from trials of three potential COVID-19 vaccines released on Monday, including a closely-watched candidate from Oxford University, increased confidence that a vaccine can train the immune system to recognize and fight the novel coronavirus without serious side effects.

LONDON, July 20: AstraZeneca’s experimental COVID-19 vaccine was safe and produced an immune response in early-stage clinical trials in healthy volunteers, data showed on Monday. The vaccine, called AZD1222 and being developed by AstraZeneca and scientists at Britain’s University of Oxford, did not prompt any serious side effects and elicited antibody and T-cell immune responses, according to trial results published in The Lancet medical journal.

173 COVID-19 patients recovered in last 24 hours

Published On: July 20, 2020 05:04 PM NPT By: Republica

KATHMANDU, July 20: The Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) reported recovery of 173 COVID-19 patients in the past 24 hours taking the country's COVID-19 recovery tally to 11,868.

KATHMANDU, July 20: The Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) reported 186 new cases of the coronavirus disease in the last 24 hours, taking the total number to 17,844.

India reports record 40,425 new virus cases

Published On: July 20, 2020 12:50 PM NPT By: Associated Press

NEW DELHI, July 20: India reported more than 40,000 new cases of the coronavirus on Monday, a record high for the country.