Top 10 world news today: Spain records lower death toll, COVID-19-hit PM Boris Johnson feels 'better' and more!!
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The death toll due tocoronavirusin Spain fell on Thursday with the country registering 683 deaths in the last 24 hours. Spain is one of the worst-hit countries in Europe after Italy.
British PM Boris Johnson's health "continues to improve", his office said on Thursday as the prime minister spenthis fourth day in ICU at a London hospital after being hit bycoronavirus.
Singapore’s strict surveillance and quarantine regime helped slow the COVID-19 outbreak when the virus first spread from China in January, but recent rises in locally transmitted cases have raised fresh concerns.
Iran's health ministry on Thursday reported 117 new deaths from the novel coronavirus taking the death toll to 4,110 in the country.
World Bank said today that sub-Saharan Africa could experience recession for the first time in 25 years due tocoronavirusoutbreak sweeping the world.
A new study has warned that countries wanting to lift lockdown restrictions should maintain movement control measures until a vaccine against the coronavirus is discovered.
According to him, one of these 10 vaccines, called Moderna-NIAID, went into its first phase of human trials on March 16, and others will start testing within the next month.
Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner of Russia's Roscosmos space agency and NASA's Chris Cassidy left the earth at 08:05 GMT from Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Thursday.
Masten Space Systems will land thepayloads on the Moon with its XL-1 lander, NASA said.
Data gathered from 2 million people in Britain using a new COVID-19 symptom tracker app suggests lockdown measures are slowing the spread of the disease, researchers said on Wednesday.