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Picture only for representation Philip Kahn fought at the Battle of Iwo Jima and helped with aerial surveys after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Kahn and his twin Samuel were born in December 1919 and Samuel died of the Spanish flu not long after. AFP New YorkContinue Reading

File photo of a woman covering her nose and mouth with scarf, as she along with others waits to receive cash from a country-wide Ehsaas Emergency Cash program, introduced by the Pakistani government for vulnerable families due to the ongoing spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Karachi. ( Reuters) PakistanContinue Reading

File photo of United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. (Photo: Reuters) UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said coronavirus has seen disproportionate effects on certain communities, the rise of hate speech, the targeting of vulnerable groups. Associated Press Last Updated: April 23, 2020, 12:18 PM IST United Nations: UNContinue Reading

Joan Pons Laplana is a senior digital charge nurse working on the frontline in an intensive care unit treating coronavirus patients at Sheffield Teaching Hospital in the north of England. Like many of his colleagues in the state-run National Health Service (NHS), the 45-year-old medic is not British. TheContinue Reading

New York: As the novel coronavirus spread through New York City in late March, doctors at Mount Sinai Hospital noticed something strange happening to patients’ blood. Signs of blood thickening and clotting were being detected in different organs by doctors from different specialties. This would turn out to beContinue Reading

Representative image. (Reuters) Barton Behravesh said the animal tests are done at veterinary labs and use different chemicals than human tests, which have been in short supply during the crisis. Associated Press New York Last Updated: April 22, 2020, 11:37 PM IST Two pet cats inContinue Reading

A file photo of Pakistan PM Imran Khan. (Reuters) Earlier in the day, a team of doctors from the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital collected samples from the Prime Minister. PTI Last Updated: April 22, 2020, 11:38 PM IST Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan wasContinue Reading

File photo shows a patient being evacuated from the Magnolia Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Riverside, California. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson, File) A total of 1,80,289 deaths have been recorded worldwide for 2,596,383 infections. There were 1,12,848 deaths in Europe for 1,263,802 cases on the hardest-hit continent. Agencies Paris Continue Reading

(Representative image) REUTERS/Amit Dave The United States is the country with the most deaths at 45,153, ahead of Italy with 25,085, Spain 21,717, France 21,340 and Britain with 18,100. AFP Paris Last Updated: April 22, 2020, 11:50 PM IST More than 1,80,000 people in the worldContinue Reading