Image:There are almost 80,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the UK The UK has recorded 917 new coronavirus deaths – including an 11-year-old. This brings the total number of UK deaths to 9,875, according to the Department of Health, making it likely that the toll will pass 10,000 on Easter Sunday. The rise in cases announced […]
Continue reading …It can be recalled that in a recent press briefing held by the President of the US and its coronavirus taskforce, in a bid to shift the blame for what has been a disastrous response to the pandemic, Donald Trump accused the World Health Organization (WHO) of being ‘China-centric,’ and pointed out its advise to […]
Continue reading …Russian President Vladimir Putin © Alexei Nikolsky/Russian Presidential Press and Information Office/TASS MOSCOW, April 10. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin has discussed the question of cutting oil output with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman Al Saud in a telephone conversation, the Kremlin press service reported on Friday. “The questions were discussed connected with talks […]
Continue reading …Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun convenes meeting for COVID-19 response on Saturday. (Yonhap) Thirty people were newly confirmed with novel coronavirus infections in South Korea on Saturday, recording a nine-day streak of double-digit daily tally, health officials said. Korea’s cumulative cases totaled 10,480 according to the Health Ministry, 7,243 of whom have recovered. The remaining 3,026 […]
Continue reading …Guangzhou in southern China is home to a sizeable African community FRED DUFOUR AFP Beijing (AFP) Africans in southern China’s largest city say they have become targets of suspicion and subjected to forced evictions, arbitrary quarantines and mass coronavirus testing as the country steps up its fight against imported infections. China says it has largely curbed […]
Continue reading …MA nurse from a elderly home holds a crucifix on April 10, 2020 in Manta, near Cuneo, northwestern Italy, as part of a Good Friday’s Way of the Cross (Via Crucis) – Copyright MARCO BERTORELLO/AFP The global death toll of the deadly coronavirus has now passed 100,000, as Europe’s worst-hit nation Italy extended its lockdown for three more […]
Continue reading …Reflecting on the past two months, people in Wuhan, whose lives have been upended by a 76-day city lockdown to contain the coronavirus, believe simple words are far from enough to express their mixed feelings about the virus, for their beloved ones, for strangers who offered help during the darkest moments, and for the city […]
Continue reading …Health staff at work in Madrid’s Puerta de Hierro hospital.JUANJO MARTIN / EFE Spain saw 605 coronavirus deaths in the last 24 hours, according to official figures from the Health Ministry. The figure marks the lowest daily number of fatalities since March 24. The total of coronavirus-related deaths came in at 683 on Thursday, 757 […]
Continue reading …FILE PHOTO: Healthcare workers prepare to transfer the body of a deceased person at a Brooklyn hospital during the Covid-19 outbreak in New York. © Reuters / Brendan McDermid2828 The United States has counted more than 2,000 Covid-19 fatalities in the space of 24 hours, smashing all previous daily death tolls worldwide as the US outbreak shows […]
Continue reading …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 […]
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