By Arul Louis United Nations, May 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) UN General Assembly President Tijjani Muhamad-Bande is holding consultations on two possible ways of holding the elections for the non-permanent Security Council seats, one of which is…
Moscow, May 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) Russian Minister of Construction, Housing and Utilities Vladimir Yakushev and his deputy Dmitry Volkov have tested positive for COVID-19, the TASS news agency reported on Friday, citing the ministry. “I will…
Moscow, May 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) Russia has reported a new daily record of 7,933 confirmed coronavirus cases in just 24 hours, taking the total number of infections to 114,431, the country’s COVID-19 response centre said on…
Beijing, May 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) China’s Hubei province, where the coronavirus pandemic originated in its capital Wuhan last December, will lower its COVID-19 emergency response from the highest to the second-highest level starting May 2, an…
Los Angeles, May 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) Los Angeles was offering free coronavirus tests to all residents, regardless of whether they were displaying any symptoms, Mayor Eric Garcetti announced shortly after Los Angeles County reported its largest…
Seoul, May 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) South Korea on Friday recorded new daily coronavirus infections in single digits for the third day in a row, but health authorities urged people to comply with social distancing guidelines during…
Washington, May 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) US President Donald Trump said he has evidence that the novel coronavirus originated in a lab in Wuhan, China, an unproven theory that contradicts the country’s National Intelligence, which hours earlier…
Beijing, April 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) China opposes any “arbitrary” probe into the origin of coronavirus pandemic that is based on the presumption of its guilt, Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng said. “This is an arbitrary investigation…
Manila, April 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) A 16-day-old baby in the Philippines has become the youngest patient to recover from COVID-19 in the country, the Department of Health said on Thursday. At just five days old, Kobe…
New York, April 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) New York state, the epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US, has reported nearly 300,000 coronavirus cases, while its daily death toll fell to the lowest since early March,…
Washington, April 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) US President Donald Trump said the White House coronavirus guidelines will be “fading out” as more states begin to reopen their economies despite concerns ove the ongoing pandemic. “They’ll be fading…
By Arul Louis New York, April 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) With nations around the world battered by their dependence on China for vital supplies during the COVID-19 pandemic, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said that…
Washington, April 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) The number of sailors testing positive for COVID-19 aboard US Navy destroyer, the USS Kidd, has risen to 78, representing nearly 25 per cent of the ship’s complement, according to a…
By Arul Louis New York, April 29 (SocialNews.XYZ) Hillary Clinton, who was defeated by President Donald Trump in 2016, has endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden to challenge him in November in a much-changed environment….
Moscow, April 29 (SocialNews.XYZ) Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday extended the national paid leave introduced to contain the spread of COVID-19 to May 11. “We are now facing a new, perhaps the most intense…
By Arul Louis New York, April 29 (SocialNews.XYZ) Hillary Clinton has announced that she will be special guest on a town hall meeting with former Vice President Joe Biden and is expected to endorse him…
Seoul, April 28 (SocialNews.XYZ) South Korea reported fewer than 15 COVID-19 cases for the 10th day in a row on Tuesday, with the upcoming holidays set to be crucial in whether the country can go…
Geneva, April 28 (SocialNews.XYZ) The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned that COVID-19 was still “extremely dangerous”, though countries were seeking to return to normal as social isolation measures have helped slow…
Washington, April 28 (SocialNews.XYZ) The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases across the world has topped 3 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University. As of Tuesday morning, the total number of cases stood at 3,041,517,…
By Arul Louis New York, April 28 (SocialNews.XYZ) One in four residents of New York City – or 2.1 million people – have been infected with the noverl coronavirus, according to the state Governor Andrew…