A human rights group has renewed its call for the government to free all political prisoners in the country “on just and humanitarian grounds’’ after United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet urged the Duterte administration to release inmates in overcrowded detention

At least 15,000 people who may have caught the coronavirus from a ‘super-spreader’ guru are under strict quarantine in northern India after the Sikh religious leader died of Covid-19.

India’s coronavirus cases crossed 900 yesterday, officials said. Of them 862 are Indians and 47 foreign nationals, the Health Ministry said.The number of dead also rose to 19, while 80 patients who recovered have left hospitals. Kerala yesterday reported the first death to Covid-19.

India said yesterday it was planning to turn some railway coaches into isolation wards for patients with coronavirus, as authorities scramble to prepare the country’s health infrastructure for an expected surge in cases.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday met representatives of the AYUSH (Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy) sector to discuss the Covid-19 outbreak.

Medical workers in England on the front line of the coronavirus pandemic started to be tested yesterday as the number of Covid-19 deaths in Britain topped 1,000, after a record 260 people died in the previous 24 hours.

Trains packed with thousands of passengers arrived in Wuhan yesterday as the Chinese city that was Ground Zero for the global coronavirus pandemic partly reopened after months in lockdown.

Malaysia expects the number of coronavirus cases to surge in mid-April, a health ministry official said yesterday, as the country ramps up testing amid a nationwide shutdown. The number of confirmed cases in Malaysia has nearly doubled in the past week to 2,320

Hundreds of European tourists stranded in Bali were evacuated from the Indonesian holiday island yesterday after their flights were cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. British authorities booked seats on two commercial flights to London for hundreds of citizens

Government opponents and human rights activists have welcomed a decision by Uganda’s constitutional court to overturn legislation that gave police “supernatural powers” to stop public gatherings and protests.

More than 30,000 people have died worldwide in the coronavirus pandemic, two-thirds of them in Europe, according to a tally at 1900 GMT Saturday.

The sum of known coronavirus US cases soared well past 100,000, with more than 1,600 dead, as weary doctors and nurses protested at shortages of scarce medical supplies ...