DAKAR, Dec 7: Healthcare disruptions linked to the coronavirus pandemic helped malaria kill 69,000 more people in 2020 than the previous year, but a worst-case scenario was averted, the World Health Organization said on Monday.

Israel on Monday began welcoming individual tourists for the first time since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic.

SEOUL, April 6: North Korea said it will not participate in the Tokyo Olympics because of the coronavirus pandemic.

WASHINGTON, Feb 22: The U.S. stood Sunday at the brink of a once-unthinkable tally: 500,000 people lost to the coronavirus.

WUHAN, Feb 11: A World Health Organization team has left China after gaining some new insights into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 2.3 million people — but with the major questions still unanswered.

WUHAN, Feb 3: World Health Organization investigators on Wednesday visited a research center in the Chinese city of Wuhan that has been the subject of speculation about the origins of the coronavirus.

NEW DELHI, Feb 1: Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday unveiled the budget for fiscal 2021-22, that aims to shore up an economy badly-hit by the novel coronavirus pandemic.

NEW DELHI, Jan 29: India’s economy contracted by 7.7% in the 2020-21 financial year, battered by the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report released Friday.

BEIJING, Jan 29: After a two-week quarantine, the real work can begin. Maybe.

WUHAN, Jan 14: A global team of researchers arrived Thursday in the Chinese city where the coronavirus pandemic was first detected to conduct a politically sensitive investigation into its origins amid uncertainty about whether Beijing might try to prevent embarrassing discoveries.

UNITED STATES, Jan 14: More than 10 million Americans have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine as of Wednesday, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as the year-old pandemic roared on unchecked.

The coronavirus pandemic is coming home to roost in America’s backyards. Forced to hunker down at home, more people are setting up coops and raising their own chickens, which provide an earthy hobby, animal companionship and a steady supply of fresh eggs.

KATHMANDU, Dec 25: Nepal recorded 608 new cases, 892 recoveries and nine deaths linked with the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the past one day, the Ministry of Health and Population said.

KATHMANDU, Dec 16: Nepal has recorded 736 new cases, 847 recoveries and 13 deaths linked with the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the past one day.

KATHMANDU, Dec 13: Nepal recorded 830 new cases, 1,500 recoveries and nine deaths linked with the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the past one day.

PUNE, India/NEW DELHI, Dec 11: India, the world’s biggest vaccine maker, is getting set for the massive global blitz to contain the coronavirus pandemic with its pharmaceutical industry and partners freeing up capacity and accelerating investments even without firm purchase orders.

KATHMANDU, Dec 9: Nepal recorded 1,056 new cases, 1,483 recoveries and 14 deaths linked with the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the past one day.

KATHMANDU, Dec 7: Nepal recorded 1,014 new cases, 1,628 recoveries and 20 deaths linked with the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the past one day.

KATHMANDU, Dec 4: Nepal recorded 1,272 new cases, 1,575 recoveries and 16 deaths linked with the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the past one day.

KATHMANDU, Dec 2: Nepal recorded 1,490 new cases, 1,567 recoveries and nine deaths linked with the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the past one day.

NEW DELHI, Nov 25: A senior leader of India’s Congress party died of coronavirus related complications on Wednesday, his family said, a second veteran from the opposition group to fall victim to the virus in recent days, as total cases in the country touched the 9.2 million mark.

NEW DELHI, Nov 25: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned on Tuesday that any COVID-19 vaccine could lead to side-effects in some people, as even popular medicines do, and that the government would only go by science in finalising one for the country.

KATHMANDU, Nov 22: A total of 5,699 persons who had earlier tested positive for the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) recovered in the past one day, the Ministry of Health and Population said in its daily COVID-19 update.

NEW DELHI, Nov 19: The South Asia sub-region surpassed 10 million COVID-19 cases on Thursday, according to a Reuters tally, led by India where officials have been concerned Diwali celebrations could derail a recent fall in infections.

BUCHAREST, Nov 15: Ten people died on Saturday in a fire at a Romanian hospital treating coronavirus patients, the country’s agency for emergency situations (ISU) said.

UNITED STATES, Nov 10: Pfizer Inc's PFE.N experimental COVID-19 vaccine is more than 90% effective based on initial trial results, the drugmaker said on Monday, a major victory in the war against a virus that has killed over a million people and battered the world's economy.

NEW YORK, Nov 9: Pfizer Inc said on Monday its experimental COVID-19 vaccine was more than 90% effective, a major victory in the fight against a pandemic that has killed more than a million people, battered the world’s economy and upended daily life.

KATHMANDU, Nov 4: Nepal recorded 3,309 new cases of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the past one day, taking the country’s COVID-19 case tally to 182,923.

KATHMANDU, Oct 18: Nepal recorded 2,942 new cases, 2,326 recoveries and 12 deaths linked to the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on Sunday, according to the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP).

KATHMANDU, Oct 15: Kusundi, a remote village in Siraha district, is gripped by a different kind of fear. It is not the coronavirus pandemic, but 'a witch who can make them fall sick just by an evil spell' that has ‘bothered’ the village people. The villagers avoid passing through a certain house, 'where the witch lives'. Even throwing a glance into the direction of the house is considered a risk.

LONDON, Oct 12: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will on Monday impose a tiered system of further restrictions on parts of England as the COVID-19 outbreak accelerates, though anger is rising at the cost of the stringent curtailment of freedoms.

DHARAN, Oct 12: Two elderly who earlier had tested positive for the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Dharan Sub-metropolitan City have died.

DHARAN, Oct 5: Dharan-based B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences (BPKIHS) recorded one more coronavirus-related death on Monday.

TOKYO, Sept 29: Top diplomats from the U.S., Australia and India plan to gather in Tokyo next week to discuss their common regional concerns, such as China’s increasingly assertive actions, in the first face-to-face ministerial meetings Japan will host since the coronavirus pandemic began.

MUMBAI, Sept 28: The Reserve Bank of India is expected to keep key rates unchanged this week, but may for the first time since February provide guidance on how the economy is performing amid the coronavirus pandemic.

BIRATNAGAR, Sept 27: The number of people dying of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has reached 63 in Province 1 after a man infected with coronavirus died in Biratnagar on Saturday night.

KATHMANDU, Sept 22: The recovery rate of COVID-19 patients in Province 1 is around 27 percent less than the national average.

KATHMANDU, Sept 17: Nepal’s coronavirus case tally has neared 60,000 after the confirmation of 1,246 new cases and four more deaths related to the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) said on Thursday afternoon.

Nepal’s new federal institutions are up against a formidable set of disasters: the COVID-19 pandemic and severe floods, along with the imminent lean season. The federal, provincial, and local levels of government need to coordinate to rise to these challenges. A large-scale survey of provincial and local government officials suggests that a data-driven approach to allocating funds can help.

KATHMANDU, Sept 17: Selling of substandard hand sanitizers is on rise in the Kathmandu Valley amid soaring demands and weak government monitoring, posing a serious threat to people’s health.

BEIJING, Sept 8: Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Tuesday praised China’s role in battling the coronavirus pandemic and expressed support for the World Health Organization, in a repudiation of U.S. criticism and a bid to rally domestic support for Communist Party leadership.

MORANG, Aug 31: As many as 56 persons tested positive for coronavirus while 54 persons were discharged after recovery in Province 1 on Monday, the province’s Social Development Ministry said.

TANAHU, Aug 30: Twenty-two people were diagnosed with the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Bhanu Municipality of Tanahu district on Sunday.

KAVRE, Aug 26: Kavre district recorded yet another coronavirus-related death on Wednesday.

DHARAN, Aug 26: The Dharan Sub-metropolitan City has decided to extend ongoing lockdown for another week owing to a surge in cases of coronavirus in recent days.

KATHMANDU, Aug 24: Nepal reported eight more COVID-19 related deaths in the past 24 hours, taking the toll to 157.

MOSCOW, Aug 24: Russia expects to produce between 1.5 million and 2 million doses per month of its potential COVID-19 vaccine by the year end, gradually ramping up production to 6 million doses a month, the RIA news agency cited industry minister Denis Manturov as saying on Sunday.

KATHMANDU, August 23: A total of eight people have been infected with COVID-19 at the Paropakar Maternity and Women's Hospital situated in Thapathali.

GENEVA, Aug 22: The World Health Organization hopes the coronavirus pandemic will be shorter than the 1918 Spanish flu and last less than two years, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday, if the world unites and succeeds in finding a vaccine.

As home-bound audiences eagerly await new programming during the coronavirus pandemic, Hollywood has been slow to get cameras rolling again, even with quarantined sets and innovations such as love scenes using mannequins.