Two Americans together with a British win Nobel Medicine Prize for the discovery of the Hepatitis C virus.

An excavation in the western Japanese city of Osaka unearthes more than 1,500 human bones at what is thought to be a burial site dating back some 160 years.

The number of people who have died of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has now surpassed 704,000 around the world, with one person dying every 15 seconds on average, according to a Reuters tally.

A WHO expert says researchers are making "good progress" in developing vaccines against COVID-19 but their first use cannot be expected until early 2021.

A Chinese man who stabbed two people to death at a coronavirus travel checkpoint is executed in China.

Cases of infection with the new coronavirus have passed 7.2 million globally, and the death toll has crossed the 411,000 mark, according to Johns Hopkins University.

Confirmed coronavirus cases across the globe now number at 1,347,803, and a total of 74,807 people have lost their lives, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University.

The new coronavirus has now killed 33,997 people and infected 722,435 others worldwide, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.

Turkey says its first cases of the new coronavirus were detected among those returning from Saudi Arabia, accusing Riyadh of concealing the number of patients among pilgrims.

There are many hurdles before global immunization for coronavirus infection is feasible.