At least 20 employees of the Afghan Presidential Palace have tested positive for the novel coronavirus out of 517 samples examined

Afghanistan on Saturday turned down Pakistan's request to handover Aslam Farooqi, leader of the Islamic State of Khorasan Province (ISKP), an affiliate of the Islamic State (IS) terror group, a media report said

A Hyderabad-based life sciences company has developed coronavirus test kit named Quantiplus COV that can give the result in two hours. Huwel Lifesciences on Friday received approval from the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) for the test kit

Despite the COVID-19 crisis and the ensuing disruption of daily life, India remains a 'High Optimism Index' society with two-thirds believing that the worst is over and now things will only get better, according to the IANS C-Voter Covid Tracker's Index of Panic

The World Health Organization (WHO) admitted that one of its reports had shown COVID-19 community transmission in India due to an error that has now been fixed. The Indian government has maintained that community transmission has not yet started in India

India will explore novel blood plasma therapy for COVID-19 using the immune power gained by a recovered person to treat a sick person

Agra, the Taj Mahal city, as emerged as the finest example in best practices in cluster management, where a smart city control room was converted into a war room to fight the outbreak of coronavirus from a person who had returned from Italy on February 25

Several thousand Bangladeshi migrant workers in the Middle East, Italy and some Southeast Asian countries are facing acute shortage of food and other essential commodities as their income sources remained shut amid shutdown enforced by the countries to contain coronavirus spread

Patients and their kin have been facing difficulty finding blood in the capital due to the nationwide lockdown imposed in a bid to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, leading to delay in surgeries

The condition of eight coronavirus patients undergoing treatment in three hospitals across the country is normal

There are more than one hundred Pakistanis among the 8,000 people who have died of the coronavirus in the New York region, officials said

Sri Lanka has confirmed 197 coronavirus by late night on April 10, the Health Ministry said after several people in a cluster relating to a burglar was found be infected with COVID-19

More than 20,000 stranded Afghans went back to their country via Pakistan's Torkham during the last four days of border reopening, it was reported

Two years back, even Prime Minister Narendra Modi was moved by the way taxi driver Saidul Lashkar single-handedly turned his grief for a sister - who died as he failed to hospitalise her because of financial difficulties - into a hospital in Kolkata to memorialse her name

Bangladesh authorities have put 34 Rohingya camps in Cox's Bazar as well as the entire district on lockdown amid a surge in the number of coronavirus cases in the country, it was reported