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Washington, Oct 5: US President Donald Trump made a surprise drive-past to greet his supporters outside a military hospital where he has been admitted since Friday for the treatment of the deadly coronavirus, drawing criticism from Democrats and a leading medical expert. The brief drive through Rockville Pike in Bethesda, a Maryland suburb of Washington DC, that separates the National Institute of

Stockholm, Oct 5: Americans Harvey J Alter and Charles M Rice, and British scientist Michael Houghton were awarded the Nobel Price for Medicine or Physiology on Monday for the discovery of the Hepatitis C virus. The World Health Organization estimates there are over 70 million cases of hepatitis worldwide and 400,000 deaths each year. The disease is chronic and a major cause of liver inflammation

Washington, Oct 4: The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 34.7 million, while the deaths have increased to more than 1,031,500, according to the Johns Hopkins University. As of Sunday, the total number of cases stood at 34,791,855 and the fatalities rose to 1,031,528, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed in its latest update. The US is the

Washington, Oct 4: US President Donald Trump who has contracted the COVID-19 released a video on Twitter saying he is feeling better and plans to return to work soon. Trump, sitting at a table with a US flag behind him and wearing a suit but no tie, thanked the doctors and all medical professionals at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland, where he appears to have recorded

Washington, Oct 3: US President Donald Trump is facing difficulty in breathing and is suffering from extreme fatigue, according to CNN. Trump was hospitalised Friday after learning he had coronavirus and experiencing what aides called coughing, congestion and fever. He had made a tweet a few hours ago saying, "Going welI, I think! Thank you to all. LOVE!!! (sic)". Trump was flown to Walter Reed

Washington, Oct 2: US stock futures and Asian shares fell Friday after President Donald Trump said he and first lady Melania Trump had tested positive for the new coronavirus. The future contracts for both the S&P 500 and the Dow industrials lost 1.9 per cent. Oil prices also slipped. Trump tweeted news of his test results just hours after the White House announced that senior aide Hope Hicks had

US President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump have test positive for covid-19. U.S. President Donald Trump said in a tweet that he and First Lady Melania Trump tested positive for Covid-19. The president said they will begin “quarantine and recovery process immediately." The president was tested after Hope Hicks, one of his closest aides, also tested positive. Hicks traveled with Trump

Washington, Oct 2: Covid-19 nasal swab test punctured a US woman's brain lining, causing fluid to leak from her nose and putting her at risk of life-threatening infection, doctors reported in a medical journal Thursday. The patient, who is in her 40s, had an undiagnosed rare condition and the test she received may have been carried out improperly, a sequence of improbable events that means the

Colombo, Oct 1: Sri Lanka is looking forward to a $1 billion currency swap with India to boost its foreign reserves and attract more investment into the island nation after its economy was hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic. Issuing a government reaction to the downgrading of Sri Lanka’s credit rating by Moody’s investor services, country’s state minister of capital markets Ajith Nivard Cabraal

San Francisco, Oct 1: Twitter has purged 130 Iranian accounts that attempted to disrupt and manipulate the public conversation during the first 2020 US Presidential Debate between President Donald Trump and Democratic Party's presidential candidate Joe Biden. Twitter said the US Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) provided them the information. "Based on intel provided by the @FBI, last night