If you have possible or confirmed COVID-19: Stay home from work, school, and away from other public places. If you must go out, avoid using any kind of public transportation, ridesharing, or taxis. Monitor your sympt...

In a new study, higher daily step counts were associated with lower mortality risk from all causes. The research team, which included investigators from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Institute on A...

The decision to delay the Games was announced in a joint statement from the International Olympics Committee (IOC), which is a partner with the United Nations, and the Tokyo 2020 organizing committee. The Joint Statement...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s order for the country’s 1.3 billion people to stay home, is an escalation of the 07:00 – 21:00 “Janata curfew” introduced on March 22, and it comes a day after the government grounded all d...

In a letter to the members of the Group of 20 industralized powers (G-20), António Guterres welcomed their decision to convene an emergency virtual summit on the pandemic, which has already affected health, education and...

WHO, FIFA launch joint campaign to equip football community to tackle COVID-19 Geneva, 23 March 2020: FIFA, the international governing body of football, and the World Health Organization (WHO) have teamed up to combat ...

UN-Habitat said the impacts of the new coronavirus disease could be considerably higher on the urban poor living in slums, where overcrowding also makes it difficult to follow other recommended measures such as social di...

From malware-laden emails to fake donations, these are some of the most common cons you should watch out for amid the public health crisis, according to Tony Anscombe, Global Security Evangelist and Industry Ambassador a...

ServiceNow has announced a customer care plan to support its public and private sector customers in managing the COVID‑19 pandemic. As part of this effort, the company has announced four new community apps to help its cu...