A twin-bomb attack at a church in Philippines has killed 20 people and injured 81. Reports said that the first blast happened as Sunday Mass was celebrated at a Roman Catholic cathedral on Jolo island, which is a predominantly Muslim area. As soldiers responded, a second device was detonated in the parking lot. Jolo Island has long been a base for Islamist militants. 

Stating that the penalties had not hampered Tehran's fight against the infection,&nbsp;Iran's president&nbsp;Hassan Rouhani has&nbsp;said that the United States lost a historic opportunity to lift sanctions on his country&nbsp;amid&nbsp;the&nbsp; coronavirus&nbsp;pandemic.&nbsp;His remarks come after US renewed sanctions on the&nbsp;Middle Western&nbsp;country on Tuesday.&nbsp;&nbsp;The coronavirus has killed 2,898 people and infected 44,606 in Iran, making it the worst-hit country in the Middle&nbsp;West&nbsp;and prompting China and the United Nations to urge the United States to ease sanctions.&nbsp;

Saudi Arabia has asked Muslims planning to take part in the Hajj pilgrimage to delay bookings amid uncertainty over the coronavirus pandemic. Hajj Minister Mohammed Banten said the kingdom was concerned about the safety of pilgrims and urged people to wait before concluding contracts. About two million people were expected to travel to Mecca and Medina this July and August for the annual gathering. In February, the Kingdom took the extraordinary decision to close off the holy cities of Mecca and Medina to foreigners over the virus, a step which wasn't taken even during the 1918 flu epidemic that killed tens of millions worldwide.

Turkmenistan which has reported zero cases of&nbsp;Covid-19&nbsp;has banned the media from using word&nbsp;&lsquo;coronavirus&rsquo;. According&nbsp;Paris based Reporters Without Borders,&nbsp;the Central Asian nation has removed&nbsp;the word has also from health information brochures distributed in schools, hospitals and workplaces.&nbsp;A report said&nbsp;people wearing face masks or talking about the coronavirus are liable to be arrested by plainclothes police.&nbsp;Ranked last in the group&rsquo;s 2019 World Press Freedom Index, the gas-rich ex-Soviet nation is one of the world&rsquo;s most closed countries. It also&nbsp;neighbours&nbsp;Iran which has reported more than 44,000 cases.&nbsp;

Another 864 people died in Spain over the past 24 hours, its&nbsp;highest daily death toll from coronavirus&nbsp;as infections&nbsp;jumped to over 1.2 lakh&nbsp;from 94,417. This is the fifth day in a row that Spain has officially recorded more than 800 deaths. The country has the second-deadliest outbreak in the world after Italy, and as of Wednesday, it has become the third country to report more 100,000 confirmed cases.

The total number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in Pakistan rose to 2,039, with 26 deaths reported across the country, according to the&nbsp;country&rsquo;s&nbsp;Health Ministry on Wednesday.&nbsp;The country's eastern Punjab province and southern Sindh province were the worst-hit areas with 708 and 676 cases respectively, followed by the northwest province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa which has 253 confirmed cases.&nbsp;The data said 82 people have been discharged from hospitals after recovery.

China has reported 1,300 asymptomatic coronavirus cases after public concern. This is the first time it has released such data following concern over people who have tested positive but are not showing symptoms. Health officials also reported the first imported case from abroad in Wuhan -- the epicentre where the virus first emerged late last year -- raising fears of infections being brought back into China from other countries.

Researchers claim that China's control measures during the first 50 days of the novel coronavirus pandemic may have delayed the spread of the virus to cities outside of Wuhan by several days and, by interrupting transmission nationwide, prevented more than 700,000 infections across the country. The study, published in the journal Science, could be useful to countries that are still in the early phases of the Covid-19 pandemic.&nbsp;The study researcher Christopher Dye from the University of Oxford in the UK said China's control measures appear to have worked by successfully breaking the chain of transmission -- preventing contact between infectious and susceptible people.&nbsp;

Virologist Gita Ramjee, a well-known vaccine scientist and an HIV prevention research leader, has become the first Indian-origin South African to have died after contracting the novel coronavirus that has killed five people in the country. She&nbsp;had returned from London a week ago but reportedly showed no symptoms of the disease.&nbsp;In 2018, Ramjee was presented with the Outstanding Female Scientist Award by the European Development Clinical Trials Partnerships (EDCTP) for her lifetime commitment to finding new HIV prevention methods.

As countries around the world effectively shut down to tackle the spread of the coronavirus, Belarus president Alexander Lukashenko is urging citizens to drink vodka, go to saunas and return to work. Lukashenko has refused to implement a lockdown in the country of roughly 9.5 million people, suggesting that others have done so as an act of 'frenzy and psychosis'.&nbsp;In Belarus, about 152 people have contracted COVID-19 infections, with no deaths.

The US recorded its worst day since the Coronavirus outbreak with 865 deaths in 24 hours until Tuesday evening, according to Johns Hopkins University.&nbsp;The US death toll rose from 3,008 to 3,873. The United States now has 1,88,172 confirmed cases, by far the highest of any country, ahead of Italy, Spain and China.
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US President Donald Trump has warned of a "very painful" two weeks as the United States battles a coronavirus surge. The White House has warned that the pandemic&nbsp;could kill as many as 240,000 Americans. Describing the disease as a "plague", Trump has asked very American to be prepared for the hard days that lie ahead. The US has till now reported more that 1,87,000 coronavirus cases and over 3800 deaths.

The coronavirus pandemic is the worst global crisis since World War II, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday. The world body chief also expressed concern that it could trigger conflicts around the world. Guterres said that the scale of the crisis was due to &ldquo;a disease that represents a threat to everybody in the world and an economic impact that will bring an unparalleled&nbsp;recession". More than 40,000 people have been killed so far as the disease spreads across the world

A new analysis of data from at least 70,000 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus from China has put the death rate at 1.38%, lower than earlier estimates ranging between 2% and 8%. The study, published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal, has however said that the Covid-19 death rate is higher than previous pandemics such as H1N1 influenza, which killed around 0.02% of the people infected in 2009-10. The death rates varied substantially with age with older people being more vulnerable. The study further warned that 50% to 80% of the global population could get infected with Covid-19.

The captain of the US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt has told the Pentagon that the coronavirus is spreading uncontrollably through his ship and called for immediate help to quarantine its crew, news reports. But the defence department has ruled out evacuating the ship. Carrier captain Brett Crozier wrote in a four-page letter that they had not been able to stem the spread of COVID-19 through the 4,000 crew members. Describing the situation as dire, the Captain has reportedly written that "We are not at war and and sailors do not need to die".

Spain, whose outbreak is the world's second-deadliest after Italy, broke another national record on Tuesday, of 849 deaths in one day. The development&nbsp;dampens hopes that Spain could have passed the peak of the crisis that has debilitated the country for weeks.
Meanwhile, tightened lockdowns across the globe saw nearly half of humanity told to stay at home in a bid to stem the spiralling coronavirus pandemic.

On their penultimate day as senior&nbsp;royals&nbsp;Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markel made their final instagram post from their official handle&nbsp;on Monday. In the post the couple stated that they will be&nbsp;continuing their charity work, however it will no longer be under the name of Sussex Royals.&nbsp;Prince Harry remains sixth in line to the throne.

The World Health Organization warned on Tuesday that while global attention has shifted to epicenters in Western Europe and North America, the Covid-19 epidemic is &lsquo;far from over&rsquo; in Asia and the Pacific.&nbsp;Urging governments of all levels in the region to stay engaged in efforts to combat the virus, WHO Regional Director for the Western Pacific, Dr Takeshi Kasai said, it going to be a long-term battle.&nbsp;

Japan says that it would ban people from more than a third of the world from entering the country to halt the spread of the novel coronavirus. The US is among a list of 73 countries to which the Japanese government also discouraged travel amid the steep global increase in the number of infections and fatalities. Japan raised its travel alert to Level 3 out of a possible 4, over which it advised against travelling to certain territories under any circumstances. The alert was extended on Tuesday to 49 countries.&nbsp;

The US has renewed sanctions waivers on Iran, allowing foreign companies to continue work at Iranian nuclear facilities to keep Tehran away from developing nuclear weapons amid the coronavirus pandemic. Media reports said that Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin prevailed in an internal debate on the issue against Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who opposed extending the waivers. Mnuchin believed that eliminating the waivers amid the coronavirus pandemic might draw criticism against the US. Iran is among the countries that have been severely hit by the pandemic, but the US has shown little willingness to ease its notorious "maximum pressure" against Tehran.

As part of a combined effort involving seven Britain-based teams,&nbsp;Formula One team Mercedes has helped to develop a breathing aid that could keep coronavirus patients out of intensive care and ease some pressure on Britain&rsquo;s strained health service.&nbsp;Mercedes worked with engineers&nbsp;to adapt and improve a device that bridges the gap between an oxygen mask and the need for full ventilation.&nbsp;The device, known as continuous positive airway pressure, has been used extensively in hospitals in Italy and China to deliver oxygen to the lungs of coronavirus patients during the pandemic.

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