The unbeaten Russian was due to face Tony Ferguson on April 18 in New York, but was told by the UFC that the fight was '99% likely' to take place in the UAE and so left the United States.

A major scare over Vladimir Putin's health emerged today as Russia's top coronavirus doctor was stuck down with Covid-19 - one week after meeting and shaking hands with the president.

Russia's youngest Covid-19 victim who was working from home and looking after her children before she succumbed to the disease, posted updates of her illness while losing her fight for life.

Trenton Thurber had been trying to make it home to Tucson via JFK from Sheremetyevo International Airport on March 30 when his flight was canceled. 'There's no way to get out', he said.

These first pictures show the wards at the new £92million clinic in Moscow which in recent days has seen 10,000-plus construction workers deployed round the clock.

The country reported a record one-day rise of 1,459 new cases on Thursday as well as an increase in the national death toll from 13 to 76.

Orthodox elder Iliy Nozdrin was seen alongside another prominent priest with icons and a cross blessing residents of Moscow and St Petersburg. He flew in a jet above the two cities.

Brazilian Malcom had been in good form before the shutdown, putting in two impressive displays - scoring a goal and providing one assist and being crowned as the best player in March.

Former FBI boss James Comey made a series of thinly-veiled digs at Donald Trump and his response to the coronavirus pandemic in a column for the Washington Post.

Compared to the previous three months, China's economy is forecast to be almost 10 per cent down and with a 6 per cent drop on last year. The UK economy could shrink by up to 15 to 25 per cent.

Professor Sergei Netesov says Moscow is facing a major crisis with hospitals already in emergency mode and the health service stretched to the limit.

Concerns circulate whether crew aboard the International Space Station could have been infected with coronavirus prior to a launch, after a senior Russian official present tested positive.

On Friday, officials reported a record rise of 4,069 new COVID-19 cases in Russia, bringing its nationwide tally to 32,007, with 273 deaths. A new £92m hospital has been made in just 36 days.

Moscow is offering cash to recovered patients who donate blood, hoping that they will have developed antibodies which can help other people fight off the disease (pictured, recipient Alexander Kutuzov).

Russia reported 4,774 new cases of coronavirus Thursday - marking the second straight day of decline - despite warnings that the country is rapidly running out of hospital beds.

Sergei Sobyanin said Russia's 0.9 per cent mortality rate was so low because of mass testing which leads to a high number of confirmed infections.

Infections outside Moscow and its surrounding region have soared 110 per cent in the past week.

Analysts and President Vladimir Putin's political enemies wonder if his long and brutal reign might fall victim to the coronavirus crisis amid the perilous effects of the pandemic in Russia.

The Russian government reported a total of 87,147 cases on Monday, which is almost 4,000 more than China's official toll of 83,912.

Natalya Lebedeva had been accused of failing to stop an outbreak of Covid-19 inside the restricted Star City (file phot) where cosmonauts are trained, colleagues claimed.

The 7,099 new cases - surpassing the previous high of 6,411 on Tuesday - bring Russia's total from 99,399 to 106,498, the eighth-highest tally in the world.

Mikhail Mishustin, Russia's Prime Minister, has today said he has tested positive for the coronavirus as Russia's death toll today reached 1,000 and its total number of cases broke through 100,000 (graph).

Russia's coronavirus crisis continues to worsen with a record 7,922 cases recorded the day after Prime Minister Mikhail Mishtushin (left, inset) tested positive for the disease.

Vladimir Putin (pictured) has seen his trust ratings fall following dissatisfaction with the Russian government's handling of the coronavirus crisis as cases of the disease continue to rise.

The latest rise of 10,102 cases, bringing the total from 145,268 to 155,370, confirms Russia's place as Europe's new virus hotbed as infections slow elsewhere.

Sergei Sobyanin, mayor of Moscow, said data suggests 2.5 per cent of the city's population have had the virus - meaning 300,000 cases - despite Russia officially tallying just 177,160.

The pop superstar, 50, was dressed in a black hoodie and leggings. Her hair was tied back into a messy bun with a few tendrils left loose and falling down over one side of her face.

Three men, aged 42, 64 and 70, have been found dead over the weekend in at the Hilton Garden Inn hotel in Manhattan that was used to quarantine recovering COVID-19 patients.

Officers were called to the party following a tip-off and found the third-floor gathering in a vacant commercial building on West 23rd Street in Manhattan's Flatiron District.

There were 1,308 new hospitalizations from COVID-19 across the state on Monday which is the lowest number since March 25.

NYC will begin storing the bodies of coronavirus victims in freezer trucks to help ease the strain on the city's overflowing hospital morgues and overwhelmed funeral homes.

Emergency room doctors say coronavirus patients are coming into the hospital with pneumonia and low oxygen levels, but they aren't struggling to breathe, meaning they are in critical condition already.

Excess mortality figures - the number of deaths that occur above seasonal averages - from 13 countries and regions have revealed some 31,000 deaths not being counted in official totals.

New York architect Joseph Feingold, 97, originally from Poland, who appeared in an Oscar-nominated film about his escape from the Nazis called 'Joe's Violin', has died with coronavirus.

Five-month-old baby Jay-Natalie La Santa, the daughter of FDNY firefighter Jerel La Santa and his wife Lindsey, passed away from COVID-19 on Monday.

The military veteran died on April 18 at New York City's Jacob Javits Convention Center, which the military has converted into a field hospital for people diagnosed with coronavirus.

Mayor Bill de Blasio said Sunday that he believes it will take more than 20 months to fully rebuild New York City and announces different councils that will focus on reopening the Big Apple.

A new mobility tool from Apple shows people living in America's hardest-hit coronavirus cities have all but stopped using public transit, are walking far less and are even driving less during the outbreak.

Dr. Lorna M. Breen, the medical director of the emergency department at NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital, died in Charlottesville, Virginia on Sunday, family members revealed.

New York woman Angelina Friedman, 101, who was born in the height of the Spanish flu in 1918 and went on to survive cancer, beat the novel coronavirus this month.

CityMD launched walk-in antibody and COVID-19 testing Tuesday as New Yorkers waited for hours to receive a test to show if they had had coronavirus.

Rana Zoe Mungin, 30, a teacher at Bushwick Ascend Middle School in Brooklyn, died in hospital Monday, a month after she was put on a ventilator and over six weeks after she first fell ill with a fever.

A New York subway worker has shared an alarming video that shows how some of the homeless population has flocked to train cars to seek shelter amid the coronavirus pandemic.

On Tuesday, there were 330 COVID-19 deaths across the state of New York which is the lowest number since April 29, which brings the total to 17,968. There were 957 new hospitalizations.

New York City doctors in residence have said that coronavirus patients are dying while they being made to work on intensive care units with no prior training in the field.

A Long Island landlord referred to as 'Eddie' posted a Craigslists ad offering women free rent in exchange for sex

Large demonstrations occurred across the country, from New York to North Carolina, with protesters urging an end to stay-at-home orders put in place amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr Scott Gottlieb on Sunday expressed concern that confirmed coronavirus infections and hospitalizations are still increasing in 20 states including Texas and Illinois.

Paul Cary, 66, of Aurora, Colorado, had been part of Ambulnz's State of New York COVID Response team when he volunteered to be deployed to the state's coronavirus epicenter, New York City.

The modern technology will be trialed to clean trains, buses and work areas in the city, officials announced on Sunday.