Iranian Revolutionary Guard chief Hossein Salami boasted that 'local scientists' had invented the 'state-of-the-art' device to detect virus cases 'remotely' without the need for a blood test.

Medics discovered the coronavirus in the lungs of a 30-year-old woman from Iran who did not display symptoms days after a relatives died with Covid-19 (pictured, CT scan showing lung markings).

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's temporary release from an Iranian jail has been extended for one month, with her husband revealing how the family have been video calling every day for several hours.

Iran has paid the deadliest price in the Middle East from the pandemic. Now another 76 fatalities have been declared amid the easing of lockdown measures - taking Iran's official death toll to 6,650.

From today, Royal Mail is increasing the cost of 1st class stamps from 70 to 76p and 2nd class from 61p to 65p despite delays of up to five days.

A Royal Mail postman wiped his nose with his hand and then repeatedly touched a property's entrance, with the same hand. People on social media have called for him to be fired.

The eldest of this year's 188 recipients is Thomas Brock, from Sunbury-on-Thames, who holds the title of oldest active bellringer in the world aged 101 (pictured).

Letter deliveries are 'temporarily' on hold but 'most parcels' will be delivered.

The company will 'temporarily' cut back its services from this weekend as Britain continues to grapple the deadly bug.

Panic has causes thousands to stock up on face mask over fears of the coronavirus outbreak. DailyMail.com breaks down the different types, where to buy them and why most won't help.

Kate Hudson and Danny Fujikawa braved the hoards at the grocery store as they stocked up on Saturday.

Kate Hudson appeared to make the most of her down time, with the Academy Award nominated actress stepping out for a stroll around California's Pacific Palisades on Friday.

Daphne Goujon, 25, and husband Chris, 35, both from Orlando, were devastated when they realised their dream outdoor wedding in Florida, wouldn't be able to go ahead.

Lily Burns, 21, from Fort Williams, tno health conditions when she caught coronavirus, and told BBC's Good Morning Scotland how it attacked her organs and left her fighting for her life.

Jill Johnson, 54, funeral director at Pride Funeral Care's Huyton on Merseyside and Southport branches, told FEMAIL she believes the pandemic will change the way funerals are held forever.

Florette Johnson, from Florida, had to FaceTime her daughter while she stayed on a ventilator to fight for her life. The mother went into hospital with a persistent cough and ended up in a coma.

Lisa Wilkinson alluded to a 'big celeb interview' on Friday as she headed back to Australia from Los Angeles amid the coronavirus crisis. 

The former One Direction singer, 25, revealed he's picked up Italian and sign language in a bid to keep himself entertained during coronavirus isolation.

iHeartRadio released a statement Tuesday, saying: 'The 2020 iHeartRadio Wango Tango concert has officially been cancelled. Refunds are being issued to ticketed guests.'

The Fine Line singer, 26, cut a rare low-key figure as he displayed his toned physique in a pair of grey shorts and a black hoodie.

Despite reports the band are in early talks to mark their 10-year anniversary this summer, a source has claimed the plans may not come to fruition due to the nationwide lockdown.

DR MAX THE MIND DOCTOR: How has it been for you? A month in lockdown and with no reprieve in sight, it's starting to feel like a life sentence, isn't it?

Head of the FDA drug research arm, Dr Janet Woodcock, warned in a webinar that if every potential coronavirus drug is trialled separately, we could run out of scientists to run them the studies.

Jane Dabner, it seems, was regarded as collateral damage in the fight against Covid-19 - one of thousands of NHS patients told their life-prolonging treatments would be cancelled or delayed.

CHARLENE WHITE: After weeks of trying its best to take her, Covid-19 had won. My Great Aunt Dell was gone. Just days earlier, she'd seemed better. But a second wave of the virus took hold.

Red eyes, a sore throat, wheezing, fatigue, a dry cough - do these symptoms sound familiar? They are typically associated with hay fever. They are also the symptoms of Covid-19.

A new study looked at 32 critically ill COVID-19 patients who were placed on ECMO machines at nine different hospitals and found that 68% were still alive at the time of analysis.

Britain's most senior doctors have demanded immediate Government action to tackle soaring fatalities from Covid-19 in black and Asian communities, the Mail on Sunday can reveal.

Two hospitals, in New York and California, are giving male coronavirus patients sex hormones found mainly in women to see if they reduce inflammation and the severity of the illness.

Six counties in the San Francisco Bay Area say that masks with one-way valves do not meet their face covering requirements because they allow potentially infectious droplets to excape.

A new study led by Wuhan University in China has found that people with blood and lung cancers are three times more likely to die from coronavirus compared patients with other tumors.

A new review article, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, finds that mucosal cells are 'stiffer' in older patients due to more protein fibers, allowing coronavirus to multiply more easily.

Yale University will begin a clinical trial to test the safety and effectiveness of asthma drug ibudilast after it was found to reduce lung inflammation caused by coronavirus in mouse models.

A new study from the University of Notre Dame has found that maintaining a high level of social distancing until summer 2020 allowed for tapering of control of the virus later on.

A new study from the University of Texas at Austin found that antibodies produced by llamas bind to proteins found on the coronavirus and prevent them from infecting cells.

Researchers at Saarland University in Homburg, Germany, say that with a sensitive enough tests, they can detect just one positive in a single test tube samples taken from 30 patients.

Cardiologist Dr Robert Bonow says that in the US as well as Italy and China, coronavirus has attached itself to the hearts of infected people and even triggered heart attacks due to severe inflammation.

A new study from Penn Vet will have eight dogs be exposed to COVID-19 positive saliva and urine samples and then test if they can discriminate between positive and negative samples.

Preliminary results of New York state testing of hydroxychloroquine to treat some 600 coronavirus patients suggest those treated with the drug fare no better than those who did not receive it.

A small French study has found that severely ill coronavirus patients given tocilizumab, a drug used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, were less likely to be put on life support and less likely to die.

Antigen tests are easier and cheaper to manufacture and simpler to administer because they require specific chemicals, highly-trained staff or specialized equipment unlike current tests.

Between 20 and 40 percent of COVID-19 patients at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, have developed blood clots - even after being put on blood thinners, doctors there say.

Social media is awash with data and graphs, which all seem to point to the same grim conclusion: that the UK is one of worst affected countries, with our virus death toll approaching a chilling 30,000.

Two hormone treatments used in prostate cancer patients will be available before chemotherapy, as hospitals try to keep patients away from hospitals during the coronavirus crisis.

The adult entertainment industry launched an STI testing and contact tracing program, like what's needed for coronavirus, to stop the spread of HIV. It hasn't been transmitted on regulated sets since 2004.

Dermatologists have warned of five skin conditions after studying 375 patients. The most common, affecting half, was a rash of either flat or raised bumps

A Harvard University review found issues with each of 10 studies on hydroxychloroquine they examined. The drug can be immunosuppressive, which could be helpful or harmful for covid patients.

Data from a project led by University of Oxford researchers shows that Britain's rate of 394 deaths per million is the fourth worst in world behind Italy, Spain and Belgium.

The map, created by the Office for National Statistics, shows deprived regions in England and Wales are suffering 55 deaths per 100,000 people, compared to 25 deaths in affluent areas.

Dr Paul Hunter, a medicine lecturer at the University of East Anglia, said it was 'valid' for people to be tested more than once and that tests are not perfect so may have to be repeated.