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The number of confirmed corona virus cases in Germany has risen to 67,366 and 732 people have died of the disease, statistics from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases showed on Wednesday. The cases rose by 5,453 compared with the previous day while the death toll climbed by 149, according to the tally. […]
Spain has reported 7,719 new corona virus cases in the past 24 hours, taking the nationwide tally to 102,136 and making it the third country after the U.S. and Italy to have over 100,000 cases. Spain’s death toll rose by 864 to 9,053 according to its health ministry on Wednesday.
The Wimbledon Tennis Championship in June has been cancelled due to the corona virus pandemic, according to an official.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s senior adviser Dominic Cummings is in self-isolation with coronavirus symptoms, just days after Johnson himself tested positive for coronavirus, the Daily Mail reported on Monday. On the same day, Prince Charles got out of seven days of self-isolation after testing positive for the virus, his spokesman said. The Prince of […]
Spain’s coronavirus death toll rose to 7,340 on Monday from 6,528 the previous day, according to the country’s Health Ministry. The number of total cases in Spain jumped to 85,195 from 78,797 on Sunday. Fernando Simón, director of Spain’s Health Ministry’s Center for the Coordination of Health Alerts and Emergencies, has tested positive, health official […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will go into quarantine as one of his advisers was diagnosed with the novel coronavirus, the prime minister’s office said on Monday. It was not immediately clear if Netanyahu was in close contact with his adviser, Rivka Paluch, during the last two weeks. However, “to remove any doubts,” his office […]
France has extended its lockdown by another two weeks after recording 299 deaths overnight. Prime Minister of France Edouard Philippe said it was clear that the country was “just at the beginning of this epidemic wave”. French authorities revealed there were now 32,964 confirmed cases of the virus, up on 3,809 from the previous day. […]
Spain is to deploy its armed forces to help transport the bodies of those killed by the coronavirus, the country’s health ministry said on Saturday, as the country recorded its highest single-day death toll. The Spanish military would have to intervene due to an overwhelming number of dead and the lack of available funeral homes, […]
In the seventh straight year of Venezuela’s bitter economic downfall, local doctors warn that this once-wealthy country has few defenses against the global coronavirus pandemic. According to the administration of embattled President Nicolas Maduro, only 107 diagnosed cases of the coronavirus have been officially recognized so far; however the country’s testing capacity is likely low, […]
Ethiopian President Sahle-Work Zewde has granted pardon to more than 4,000 prisoners in efforts to contain the spread of coronavirus in the country. Sahle-Work Zewde announced the order in a tweet on Wednesday and said it would help prevent overcrowding in prisons. The directive only covers those given a maximum sentence of three years for minor crimes […]
