A 96-year-old woman in South Korea has become the oldest patient in the country to fully recover from the novel coronavirus. The woman, identified by Cheongdo County as Ms. Hwang, was declared completely recovered on Wednesday. Cheongdo County is close to the southern city of Daegu, where the country's coronavirus cases are most concentrated. Hwang had been diagnosed with the coronavirus on March 13, and received intensive treatment at the Pohang public clinic, ...details

Officers and employees of Bangladesh Embassy in Washington, D.C. observed the “Genocide Day” on Wednesday evening remembering the horrendous episode of human massacre in Bangladesh by the Pakistan army on March 25, 1971. A one-minute silence was observed showing respect for the millions of martyrs of the War of Liberation, said a media release on Thursday. The messages of President and Prime Minister were read out. Counsellor (Political) Dewan Ali Ashraf and ...details

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday said Pakistan desires to further strengthen its relations with Bangladesh based on the principles of mutual respect and understanding. “Our two countries have common aspirations for regional peace, prosperity and development and these commonalities provide a firm foundation upon with we can build the edifice of our cooperation in the years to come,” he said. He made the remarks while greeting his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh ...details

The death from the coronavirus in Italy has reached 3,405, becoming the country with the most coronavirus-related deaths surpassing China. Italy reached the gruesome milestone on the same day China’s Wuhan, the epicentre of the pandemic, recorded no new infection. Overall, China on Thursday counted 3,249 deaths, 156 fewer than Italy, according to the Johns Hopkins University virus map. Both Italy’s death toll and its new infections shot up again, adding 427 more ...details

The death toll from the coronavirus or COVID-19 has climbed to 10,047 globally as of Friday. It has so far infected 245,834 people around the world, according to worldometer. Of them, 147,346 are currently being treated with 7,378 being in serious or critical condition. So far, 98,488 cases had outcomes and of them, 88,441 (90 percent) recovered and 10 percent died. Bangladesh reported its first death from the coronavirus on Wednesday when ...details

Four people who were sentenced to death for the gruesome gang-rape and murder of a woman on a New Delhi bus in 2012 were hanged on Friday. They were executed at Tihar Jail in New Delhi, Press Trust of India reported, quoting jail authorities. The victim, a 23-year-old physiotherapy student, was heading home with a male friend from a movie theatre when six men tricked them onto a private bus. With ...details

The world is "at war" with a virus, which if allowed to "spread like wildfire" would kill millions of people, UN chief Antonio Guterres said on Thursday, calling for a coordinated, decisive and innovative policy action from the world's leading economies to combat the pandemic. "We are facing a global health crisis unlike any in the 75-year history of the United Nations — one that is spreading human suffering, infecting the ...details

Iran's top leader will pardon 10,000 more prisoners in an apparent effort to combat the coronavirus, state TV reported Thursday. The report quoted judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili as saying that 10,000 prisoners — among them an unknown number of security related inmates — will be granted amnesty under a decree by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on the occasion of the Iranian new year, called Nowruz. Occasionally Khamenei, who has final ...details

The death toll from the coronavirus or COVID-19 has climbed to 8,967 globally as of Thursday. It has so far infected 219,240 people around the world, according to worldometer. Of them, 124,528 are currently being treated with 6,815 being in serious or critical condition. So far, 94,712 cases had outcomes and of them, 85,745 (91 percent) recovered and 9 percent died. Bangladesh reported its first death from the coronavirus on Wednesday. Besides, ...details

China has decided to donate emergency anti-epidemic medical supplies including a large number of test kits to Bangladesh. The Chinese Embassy in Dhaka informed relevant ministries of Bangladesh government about the support for the Bangladeshi people. "In curbing the epidemic, China has always been and will be the most reliable partner of Bangladesh," said the Embassy on ...details