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  Member of the medical staff take care of a patient infected by the novel coronavirus, at the COVID-19 division at the ASST Papa Giovanni XXIII hospital in Bergamo   –   Copyright  PIERO CRUCIATTI/AFP or licensors  The problem with such a fast and widespread pandemic as the novel coronavirus is that scientists and doctors only understand the virus and […]

French Director General of Health Jérôme Salomon gives a daily update about France’s coronavirus situation. © Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt/Pool via Reuters France on Friday reported 987 more COVID-19 deaths registered in hospitals and nursing homes over the last 24 hours, although the number of patients in intensive care fell for the second day in a […]

SEOUL (ANN): North Korea continues to insist it has no confirmed case of coronavirus infections, despite mounting skepticism while the global pandemic is spreading. The reclusive nation has tested 709 people — 11 foreigners and 698 North Koreans — for Covid-19, with no positive cases, according to Reuters on Tuesday, citing North’s weekly updates submitted […]

Hilmar Gerber, operations manager of the primary health clinic at Sophiahemmet hospital,steps out of a tent for testingand receiving potential coronavirus Covid-19 patients on April 7 in Stockholm, Sweden. Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP via Getty Images As most governments around the world impose strict social distancing measures to try to stop the spread of the coronavirus, Sweden has […]

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has criticized Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, saying it was too slow. He also condemned China and Hungary’s response to the spread of COVID-19. Germany’s foreign minister on Friday said he thought the US had not shown enough urgency in its response to the crisis, saying that the virus […]

Graphic copyright Getty Pictures The US has closed its border with Mexico to all but non-important website traffic The US has expelled much more than 6,300 undocumented migrants on its Mexico border making use of emergency powers to curb coronavirus unfold, officers say. The 21 March public overall health evaluate allows officers override immigration guidelines, […]

New York, Apr 10 (IANS): Images have emerged of coffins being buried in a mass grave in New York City, as the death toll from the coronavirus outbreak continues to rise in the epicentre of the pandemic in the US, a media report said on Friday. The drone images come from Hart Island, off the Bronx in Long […]

A courtesy photo showing Africans in the streets of a Chinese city after their kicked out of their homes. PHOTO | Kenyans in China are asking the government to assist them return home after a surge in racial discrimination against Africans in the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic. Many Kenyans living in China have been […]

  TEHRAN- The number of infections with the coronavirus and mortality in Iran are on a downward trend. Over the past 24 hours, 1,634 new patients have been identified compared with 1,997 in the day before, Health Ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said on Thursday. He added that 117 more people have died during the same period of […]

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) hydraulic steel structure and electromechanical works is said to have registered massive progress. Sileshi Bekele (PhD), Minister of Water, Irrigation and Energy, announced that the hydraulic steel structure work is now at 20.4 percent from 13.88 percent, while the electromechanical part of the project reached 44.3 percent from 25.6 […]