Chewy and Miley, both two-year-old Schnauzer dogs, are getting their hair cut at a groomer in Bangkok for the first time since the new coronavirus outbreak began in Thailand in January.

With its season cut short by the coronavirus pandemic, one of Austria's most popular glacial ski resorts covered its glacier in protective fabric earlier than usual this year to help preserve it for a still uncertain reopening.

Syria's government allowed mosques to open on Friday for worshipers willing to perform prayers. The mosque had remained closed as part of the measures taken to contain the spread of coronavirus.

Thousands of cyclists took over streets in the center of the Slovenian capital Ljubljana on Friday evening to protest against the government of Prime Minister Janez Jansa and the restrictions it has imposed to fight the coronavirus.

Beaches nationwide have been shut for weeks as the government put itself on lockdown in mid-March to curb the spread of the virus, which has to date killed nearly 26,000 nationwide.

With its season cut short by the coronavirus pandemic, one of Austria's most popular glacial ski resorts covered its glacier in protective fabric earlier than usual this year to help preserve it for a still uncertain reopening.

Thousands of cyclists took over streets in the center of the Slovenian capital Ljubljana on Friday evening to protest against the government of Prime Minister Janez Jansa and the restrictions it has imposed to fight the coronavirus.

Russell Howard, Nish Kumar, Jon Richardson and others help 'landlady' Kiri Pritchard-Mclean host 'The Big Comedy Quiz at The Covid Arms' and break a Guinness World Record.

A Dutch restaurant has come up with an idea on how to offer classy outdoor dining in the age of coronavirus: small glass cabins built for two or three people, creating intimate cocoons on a public patio.

Japan's time-honoured ritual of exchanging business cards face-to-face is under pressure as the government promotes a "new lifestyle" to combat the coronavirus.

Vicente Piratapuia, 69, of the Piratapuia tribe had a high fever and could hardly breathe, but he refused to leave his home on the outskirts of the Amazon rainforest's biggest city.

After standing empty for two months, Greece's ancient sites, including the Acropolis hill towering over Athens, will reopen to visitors on May 18, authorities said on Thursday.

A train killed 16 migrant workers who had fallen asleep on the track on Friday while they were heading back to their home village after losing their jobs in a coronavirus lockdown, police said.

Inflows into India's equity mutual funds nearly halved in April, industry data showed, as many investors rattled by stock market volatility due to the new coronavirus and the impact of a lockdown on the economy chose to stay away.

Before she was laid off from her bartending job in Charleston, South Carolina, Shana Swain used to spend her nights serving food and mixing Manhattans and Cosmopolitans.

Kuwait will enact a "total curfew" from 4pm (1300 GMT) on Sunday through to May 30 to help to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, its cabinet said in a statement on Friday.

The U.S. government reported more catastrophic economic fallout from the coronavirus crisis on Friday as the pandemic pierced the very walls of the White House and California gave the green light for its factories to restart after a seven-week lockdown.

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence's press secretary, the wife of one of President Donald Trump's senior advisers, has tested positive for the coronavirus, raising alarm about the virus' potential spread within the White House's inner most circle.

कोरोना से लड़ने के लिए स्वास्थ्य कर्मियों के अलावा साइंस और टेक्नोलॉजी से जुड़े देश के उच्च संस्थान भी एकजुट होकर काम कर रहे हैं। एक तरफ भारत सरकार ने आरोग्य सेतु जैसे कोरोना ट्रैकिंग ऐप लॉन्च किया वहीं दूसरी ओर इंडियन इंस्टीट्यूट ऑफ साइंस (आईआईएससी) और इंडियन इंस्टीट्यूट ऑफ टेक्नोलॉजी (आईआईटी) जैसे संस्थानों ने मिलकर 'गो कोरोना गो' और 'संपर्क-ओ-मीटर' जैसे ऐप्सतैयार किएहैं, जो कोरोना से बचने और सतर्क रहनेमें लोगों की मदद कर रहेहैं।

गो कोरोना गो ऐप

गो कोरोना गो ऐप को आईआईएससी ने डेवलप किया है, जो पता लगाता है कि कहीं यूजर ने कोरोना संक्रमितों या संदिग्धों के साथ यात्रा या रास्ता पार तो नहीं किया। ऐप इस काम के लिए स्मार्टफोन के जीपीएस और ब्लूटूथ के अलावा नेमपिछली कन्वर्सेशन को इस्तेमाल करता है। आईआईएससी के फैकल्टी मेंबर तारुण रंभा ने बताया कि ऐप दूर के संपर्कों के लिए संक्रमित होने की संभावना को समझने के लिए बैकएंड में टेम्परेरी नेटवर्क एनालिटिक्स का इस्तेमाल करता है। इससे यह बीमारी फैलने और सबसे ज्यादा जोखिम वाले लोगों की पहचान करता है। उन्होंने आगे बताया कि ऐप आईसोलेशन और प्रॉक्जिमिटी स्कोर अलर्ट देता है साथ ही सोशल डिस्टेंसिंग बढ़ने में भी मदद करता है। इसमें जियो-फेसिंग फीचर भी है जो खासतौर से उन लोगों के लिए जो खुद को क्वारैंटाइन किए हुए हैं। इसके अलावा ये उन लक्षणों के बारे में भी बताता है जिससे संक्रमित होने की संभावना हो सकती है।

संपर्क-ओ-मीटर ऐप
रंभा ने बताया आईआईटी रोपड़ के ए.बी. टेक स्टूडेंट्स ने संपर्क-ओ-मीटर बनाई है। ऐप मैप के जरिए उन जगहों की जानकारी मुहैया कराता है, जहां कोरोना से संक्रमित होने की सबसे ज्यादा संभावना है। यह ऐप कई सारे मापदंड़ों के आधार पर रिस्क स्कोर जारी कर यूजर को एहतियाती उपाय करने के लिए अलर्ट करता है जिसमें सेल्फ आइसोलेट और डॉक्टर से परामर्श लेने शामिल है।

कोरोनटाइन (CORONTINE) ऐप
आईआईटी मुंबई के स्टूडेंट्स ने मिलकर भी कोरोनटाइन ऐप डिजाइन की है। ऐप क्वारैंटाइन जोन छोड़ने पर संदिग्ध व्यक्ति को ट्रैक करने में मदद करेगा, जो कई लोगों को संक्रमित कर सकता है। इसे ऐप को ऑथोराइज्ड एजेंसी द्वारा संदिग्ध व्यक्ति के फोन में इंस्टॉल किया जाएगा। ऐप समय समय पर यूजर की जीपीएस लोकेशन की जानकारी सुपरविजन कर रही एजेंसी के सर्वर पर पहुंचाती रहेगी। जैसे ही संदिग्ध जियो फेसिंग किए गए क्वारैंटाइन जोन को छोड़ेगा, यह तुरंत उसे ऑटो डिटेक्ट कर लेगा।

आईआईटी दिल्ली के छात्रों ने भी ऐसी ऐप तैयार की है, जो ऐसे लोगों को ट्रैक करने में मदद करेगी जो कोविड-19 पॉजीटिव कें संपर्क में आए हैं। यह ब्लूटूथ की मदद से काम करता है। ऐप उन यूजर्स को अलर्ट करेगी जो बीते दिनों में संक्रमितों के नजदीक गए हों।

आईआईटी रुड़की ने भी ऐसी ऐप तैयार किया है। इससे संदिग्धों की निगरानी की जा सकती है साथ ही उनके आसपास जियो-फेसिंग तैयार की जा सकती है। जिसे ही क्वारैंटाइन पर्सन इस जियो फेसिंग को तोड़गा, ऐप तुरंत सिस्टम को अलर्ट कर देगा। जीपीएस के काम न करने की स्थिति में यह एसएमएस के जरिए अलर्ट करता है।

The World Health Organization (WHO) plans to launch an app this month to enable people in under-resourced countries to assess whether they may have the novel coronavirus, and is considering a Bluetooth-based contact tracing feature too, an official told Reuters on Friday.

Hackers linked to Iran have targeted staff at U.S. drugmaker Gilead Sciences Inc in recent weeks, according to publicly-available web archives reviewed by Reuters and three cybersecurity researchers, as the company races to deploy a treatment for the COVID-19 virus.

U.S. cable firms are in for pain even after the pandemic starts to fade. Sports rights to air football games and other matchups are expected to soar and so will monthly bills. Jennifer Saba explains why non-sports lovers will choose Netflix and Disney+ and ditch their cable.

A train killed 16 migrant workers who had fallen asleep on the track on Friday while they were heading back to their home village after losing their jobs in a coronavirus lockdown, police said.

Inflows into India's equity mutual funds nearly halved in April, industry data showed, as many investors rattled by stock market volatility due to the new coronavirus and the impact of a lockdown on the economy chose to stay away.

Before she was laid off from her bartending job in Charleston, South Carolina, Shana Swain used to spend her nights serving food and mixing Manhattans and Cosmopolitans.

Kuwait will enact a "total curfew" from 4pm (1300 GMT) on Sunday through to May 30 to help to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, its cabinet said in a statement on Friday.

The U.S. government reported more catastrophic economic fallout from the coronavirus crisis on Friday as the pandemic pierced the very walls of the White House and California gave the green light for its factories to restart after a seven-week lockdown.

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence's press secretary, the wife of one of President Donald Trump's senior advisers, has tested positive for the coronavirus, raising alarm about the virus' potential spread within the White House's inner most circle.

Pfizer Inc said on Friday it is in talks to shift more of its medicine production to outside contractors as it prepares for large-scale production of an experimental vaccine to prevent COVID-19, should it prove safe and effective.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday reported 1,248,040 cases of the new coronavirus, an increase of 28,974 cases from its previous count, and said that the number of deaths had risen by 2,180 to 75,477.

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany increased by 1,251 to 168,551, data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases showed on Saturday.

China reported one new coronavirus case for Friday, unchanged from the day before, data from the national health authority showed on Saturday.

Thailand reported four new coronavirus cases and one more death on Saturday, bringing the total to 3,004 cases and 56 deaths since the outbreak started in January.

Singapore registered 753 new coronavirus infections, its health ministry said on Saturday, taking the city-state's total to 22,460 cases.

Russian authorities said on Saturday they had recorded 10,817 new cases of the coronavirus in the last day, pushing the nationwide tally to 198,676.

The Philippines' health ministry reported on Saturday that coronavirus deaths have reached more than 700.

Tokyo reported 36 new cases of coronavirus infections on Saturday, TV Asahi said, three less than a day earlier and the seventh consecutive day that new infections have remained below 100.

Malaysia health authorities on Saturday reported 54 new coronavirus cases for a total of 6,589.

Slovakia on Friday recorded no new cases of coronavirus for the first time since March 10, government figures showed.

The number of deaths from the coronavirus in Mexico's best-known border city, Tijuana, has soared and the COVID-19 mortality rate is twice the national average, the health ministry says, after medical staff quickly fell ill as the outbreak rampaged through hospital wards.

More than 3.95 million people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus globally and 273,805 have died, according to a Reuters tally, as of 0214 GMT on Saturday.

UFC has withdrawn a bout from Saturday's card in Jacksonville after middleweight Jacare Souza and two of his cornermen tested positive for the new coronavirus, the mixed martial arts promotion said.

Qualifying for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic golf tournament will be extended to June 2021 to accommodate the year-long delay caused by the coronavirus outbreak, the International Golf Federation (IGF) said on Wednesday.

Former Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara will be offered a one-year extension as president of the Marylebone Cricket Club in the "extraordinary circumstances" resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, the MCC said on Wednesday.

The Men's Milan Fashion Week set for June will be postponed to mid-July and presented in purely digital format with photos and video to avoid the risk of coronavirus contagion, Italy's national fashion chamber said on Wednesday.

Madagascar is putting its self-proclaimed, plant-based "cure" for COVID-19 on sale and several countries in Africa have already put in orders for purchase, despite warnings from the World Health Organisation that its efficacy is unproven.

With its season cut short by the coronavirus pandemic, one of Austria's most popular glacial ski resorts covered its glacier in protective fabric earlier than usual this year to help preserve it for a still uncertain reopening.

After several failed crossings from Libya to Italy and a long spell in detention, Nigerian migrant Olu had pinned his hopes on being evacuated from the besieged city of Tripoli with his family.

Japan's ruthless animated hitman has become the latest victim of the coronavirus, as the nation's longest-running manga comic announced it would take its first hiatus in its 52-year history as social restrictions to contain the virus have made it difficult to produce the hand-drawn series.

Russian authorities said on Saturday they had recorded 10,817 new cases of the coronavirus in the last day, pushing the nationwide tally to 198,676.