Millions of people woke up confused, confined and frustrated in the Philippines on Tuesday, as a sweeping home quarantine order kicked in with just a few hours of warning, and Southeast Asia prepared tighter measures against a surge in coronavirus cases.

Confusion, concern as locked-down Philippines starts coronavirus quarantine

Parisians thronged the city's rail stations and took to the highway early on Tuesday to escape the French capital before a lockdown imposed to slow the rate of coronavirus contagion kicked in at midday.

Parisians flee to the countryside ahead of coronavirus lockdown

US President Donald Trump's comment about the coronavirus has angered Chinese authorities. Recently, the US president referred to the COVID-19 novel coronavirus as ''Chinese''.

Mind your own business: China to Trump after he calls COVID-19 'Chinese virus'

A study undertaken by Chinese researchers claims that kids who contract COVID-19 might display mild symptoms, recover, but still carry the virus. This implies that kids remain active carriers of coronavirus even if their symptoms have subsided or even if they're simply asymptomatic.

Can asymptomatic kids sustain coronavirus for longer than adults?

The coronavirus pandemic seems to hit health care workers harder than it affects others according to experts. "There's nothing more destabilising than health care workers falling ill'', said Dr Peter Hotez, the Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.

Are our healthcare workers safe during the coronavirus pandemic?

Iran has temporarily freed about 85,000 prisoners, including political prisoners, a spokesman for its judiciary said on Tuesday, in response to the coronavirus epidemic.

Iran has temporarily freed 85,000 prisoners, including political ones, amid coronavirus

Kaspersky recently discovered two new Android malware modifications that are capable of stealing cookies that are stored by the internet browser and social media applications.

Combination of Android malware may compromise user's social media accounts

A church in South Korea has been making the headlines recently. 46 people going to the same church recently contracted coronavirus, including the pastor and his wife.

Attempting to disinfect, South Korean church officials mistakenly infect people with COVID-19

Researchers in Australia today claimed that they have traced and understood the immune responses to coronavirus in a person, based on patient zero in their country.

Can doctors predict how long it would take for a patient to recover from COVID-19?

Following the SAARC template which came to fruition yesterday, G7 countries conducted a video conference today to address the COVID-19 outbreak. During the conference, the Leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) expressed the conviction that ''current challenges related to the COVID-19 pandemic need a strongly coordinated international approach, based on science and evidence, consistent with our democratic values, and utilising the strengths of private enterprise''.

G7 follows SAARC's suit; conducts a video conference to chalk out COVID-19 plan

Divorce rates in China have increased over the last couple of months owing to coronavirus. According to register offices across the country, this is because of self-quarantine protocols that have enabled couples to spend more time together.

Divorce appointments in China shoot up as self-quarantining becomes a way of life to battle COVID-19

Hong Kong's rival political camps have embraced a new tactic to woo potential voters as the city hunkers down during the coronavirus pandemic: free face masks. Masks have been in desperately short supply in Hong Kong since the start of the year when the epidemic reached the financial hub.

Hong Kong political rivals are wooing voters with free face masks

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