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(ANSA) – Rome, April 30 – Thursday saw a record drop in the number of people in Italy currently infected with the coronavirus, the Civil Protection Department said. The number fell to 101,551, some 3,106 down in 24 hours. The drop was driven by a rise of 4,693 in the number of people to have […]

© Valery Sharifulin/TASS MOSCOW, April 30. /TASS/. The coronavirus infection dynamics show that it is not yet time for Russians to get relaxed and go out into the streets, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday. “While the dynamics fluctuate and while we see growth,” the Russian presidential spokesman told journalists, commenting on the rate […]

Getty Images Volunteers have been dispersing supplies to refugee camps The Red Cross in Somalia says it fears the true number of people suffering from coronavirus is much higher than the official figure of 582. Somalia is woefully unprepared for a surge in cases. Its healthcare system has been shattered by three decades of conflict. […]

Turkey and Russia carry out the seventh joint patrols in Syria’s Idlib province under the agreement reached in March, April 30, 2020. (İHA Photo)  Turkish and Russian forces conducted the seventh joint patrol along the key M4 highway in northwestern Syria’s Idlib province, Turkey’s National Defense Ministry announced Thursday. “Within the framework of TUR-RF Agreement/Protocol, […]

The last photo of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un shared by state media showed him at a meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers” Party of Korea (WPK) on 11 April [KCNA via Reuters] Seoul, South Korea – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was last pictured centre stage at […]

In this photo from March 18, 2020, a pedestrian walks past buildings of the business district of La Défense, on the outskirts of Paris, as a strict lockdown comes into effect in an attempt to stop the spread of Covid-19 in France. © Martin Bureau, AFP France’s gross domestic product contracted 5.8 percent in the first […]

     (Yonhap) Korea on Thursday reported four new confirmed cases of COVID-19, all of which were imported from overseas, marking the first time in 75 days that zero local community infections were reported. The total number of confirmed cases in Korea stood at 10,765 as of midnight, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and […]

  An ampule of the drug remdesivir is pictured during a news conference at the University Hospital Eppendorf in Hamburg, Germany [File: Ulrich Perrey/Pool/Reuters]  An experimental drug has proved effective against the new coronavirus in a major study, shortening the time it takes for patients to recover by four days on average, United States government […]

Germany should allow migrants from Africa to pay a cash deposit to obtain temporary German work visas, a panel of migrations experts proposed in a report published Tuesday, a measure they argue would reduce illegal migration to the EU.In its latest annual report, the Expert Council of German Foundations on Integration and Migration (SVR) suggested such […]

World Bank/Dominic Chavez Young factory workers producing shirts in Accra, Ghana. Some 1.6 billion people employed in the informal economy – or nearly half the global workforce – could see their livelihoods destroyed due to the continued decline in working hours brought on by lockdowns to curb the spread of COVID-19, the International Labour Organization (ILO) […]