Mass testing has been carried out in the Vatican after a priest living at the Popes residence tested positive for the novel coronavirus. ....

The cumulative number of coronavirus cases in Italy reached 86,498 on Friday, exceeding the total figure registered in China, according to data by the Civil Protection Department coordinating the national emergency response. ....

The Chinese city of Wuhan, where the coronavirus pandemic originated last December, has had its coronavirus risk evaluation downgraded from "high risk" to "medium risk", a local health official said on Friday. ....

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has tested positive for coronavirus but will continue to discharge his duties from self-isolation, a spokesman said on Friday. ....

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Friday announced that every person who arrives in the country from Sunday onwards will be forced into a 14-day quarantine period as a preventive measure against the coronavirus pandemic. ....

The number of coronavirus deaths in Spain has surpassed China, where the pandemic originated last December, to become the second worst-hit country in terms of fatalities after Italy. ....

China has asked Pakistan to open the border between the two countries for one day on Friday so that medical supplies to combat the novel coronavirus could be transported, a media report said. ....

The number of confirmed cases in Pakistan has increased to 1,041 as of Thursday, while the death toll was recorded at eight, according to authorities. ....

The total deaths linked to COVID-19 around the world topped 20,000 as of 2 p.m., US Eastern Time on Wednesday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University. ....

As a bus departed from its terminus at Hankou Railway Station at 5.25 a.m. on Wednesday morning, Wuhan started to resume bus service after nine weeks of lockdown. ....