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239 experts with 1 big claim: the coronavirus is airborne

Shawdesh Desk: The coronavirus is finding new victims worldwide, in bars and restaurants, offices, markets and casinos, giving rise to frightening clusters of infection that increasingly confirm what many scientists

Pakistan Foreign Minister Qureshi moved to Rawalpindi for COVID-19 treatment

Shawdesh Desk: Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi was admitted to Combined Military Hospital in Rawalpindi for further treatment for coronavirus infection, according to the media report on Saturday. On

WHO urges focus on first wave of coronavirus

Shawdesh desk: The World Health Organisation’s emergencies chief says “we need to put up a fight now” during a peak in the current wave of the coronavirus pandemic rather than

14 feared dead at flooded nursing home in Japan: governor

Shawdesh Desk: Fourteen people were feared dead after a nursing home was flooded in western Japan on Saturday as record heavy rain hit the region, a local governor said. The

India coronavirus: Official asked to wear mask assaults female worker

Shawdesh Desk: A government official in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh has been arrested after he was caught on camera assaulting a female co-worker. Police said he attacked

215 new Covid-19 cases in Singapore, including 10 in the community and 4 imported

Shawdesh dEsk: There are 215 new coronavirus cases confirmed as of Wednesday noon (July 1), taking Singapore’s total to 44,122. They include 10 community cases, comprising six Singaporeans or permanent

Heartbreaking images show 3-year-old crying over body of grandfather killed in cross-firing

Shawdesh Desk: Heartbreaking images of a 3-year-old boy sitting on the motionless body of his grandfather in Kashmir’s Sopore has emerged from an encounter site. The 60-year-old man was a

Tehran clinic hit by deadly explosion, 19 killed

Shawdesh Desk: At least 19 people have been killed in an explosion at a clinic in Iran’s capital Tehran, officials say. Several people were injured at the Sina Athar clinic,