-- 2020-03-23 16:18:22
The United Nations will create a fund to support the treatment of coronavirus patients worldwide, Norway's foreign ministry said on Monday. "A multi-donor fund under UN auspices will provide predicta...
Reuters 2020-03-23 15:19:50
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany has risen to 22,672 and 86 people have died from the disease, a tally by public health agency Robert Koch Institute (RKI) showed on Monday. That c...
-- 2020-03-22 18:43:15
Spain's death toll from coronavirus soared to 1,720 on Sunday from 1,326 the day before, according to latest data from the health ministry. The one-day rise in deaths of 394 was higher than the previ...
-- 2020-03-22 11:38:56
Italy recorded a jump in deaths from coronavirus of almost 800 on Saturday, taking the toll in the world’s hardest-hit country to almost 5,000. In its latest desperate effort to halt the epidem...
REUTERS 2020-03-22 11:24:26
The Spanish government said on Saturday it would do whatever was needed to combat the coronavirus pandemic and warned that "the worst is yet to come" after the national toll surpassed 1,300 deaths and...
REUTERS 2020-03-21 10:53:53
The death toll from an outbreak of coronavirus in Italy has leapt by 627 to 4,032, officials said on Friday, an increase of 18.4 per cent - by far the largest daily rise in absolute terms since the co...
-- 2020-03-20 19:10:55
The minister leading the Dutch government’s fight against the coronavirus resigned on Thursday, a day after collapsing from exhaustion during a parliamentary debate on the epidemic, reports Reut...
-- 2020-03-20 15:40:18
More than 245,000 people have been infected by the novel coronavirus across the world and 10,028 have died, with cases and deaths outside China far exceeding those in the country where the outbreak be...
REUTERS 2020-03-20 10:47:52
The world’s richest nations poured unprecedented aid into the global economy on Thursday as coronavirus cases ballooned in the new epicentre Europe, with the number of deaths in Italy outstrippi...
-- 2020-03-19 12:15:03
Schools in the UK are to shut from Friday until further notice as a response to the coronavirus pandemic. Schools will close except for looking after the children of keyworkers and vulnerable childre...
REUTERS 2020-03-19 10:21:20
Hundreds of millions of people faced a world turned upside down on Wednesday by unprecedented emergency measures against the coronavirus pandemic that is killing the old and vulnerable and threatening...
-- 2020-03-17 17:19:13
An official from the World Health Organisation, the body leading the global fight against the coronavirus pandemic, said on Tuesday that two staff members have been confirmed to be infected with coron...
-- 2020-03-16 11:21:12
Germany will temporarily introduce border controls on its frontiers with Austria, Switzerland, France, Luxembourg and Denmark from Monday, the government said on Sunday as the country seeks to curb a...
-- 2020-03-16 10:14:42
The three states bearing the brunt of the coronavirus pandemic in Europe have all recorded their highest death tolls for a single day. Italy saw 368 deaths bring its total to 1,809, Spain recorded 97...
-- 2020-03-15 11:13:05
Two of the EU's biggest states, Spain and France, have followed Italy in announcing emergency restrictions to combat the spread of the coronavirus. In Spain, people are banned from leaving home excep...
Reuters 2020-03-14 20:53:44
Health authorities in England announced on Saturday a further 10 deaths caused by coronavirus, almost doubling the number of fatalities in Britain since Friday. "I am sorry to confirm 10 further pati...
-- 2020-03-14 19:55:05
Coronavirus cases in Spain have risen by 1,500 to more than 5,700, public health officials say, reports The BBC. Spain is the worst affected country in Europe after Italy, which has more than 15,000...
-- 2020-03-14 19:22:28
A newborn baby has tested positive for coronavirus in what is thought to be the youngest case of the disease in the UK, it has emerged, reports The Guardian. The child’s mother, who was taken t...
-- 2020-03-14 15:05:13
Britain’s government will ban mass gatherings from next week in an attempt to curb the coronavirus outbreak, an escalation of its crisis plan which critics had said was too relaxed. Prime Minis...
-- 2020-03-12 14:02:01
Greece reported its first fatality from a coronavirus infection on Thursday, a 66-year-old man who had returned from a religious pilgrimage to Israel and Egypt at the end of February. The deceased ha...
-- 2020-03-11 17:51:44
The Russian parliament approved a constitutional reform to allow the country's President Vladimir Putin to stay in power until 2036. The parliament gave the approval in the third and final reading We...
-- 2020-03-11 15:07:40
Turkish health minister on Wednesday announced the first case of the novel coronavirus in Turkey. A male citizen was tested positive for the coronavirus on Tuesday evening, Turkish Health Minister Fa...
-- 2020-03-11 11:44:13
The death toll from an outbreak of coronavirus in Italy has jumped by 168 to 631, an increase of 36 per cent, the Civil Protection Agency said on Tuesday. It was the largest rise in absolute numbers...
Reuters 2020-03-11 11:23:37
British junior health minister Nadine Dorries has tested positive for coronavirus and is self-isolating, she said on Tuesday. Dorries said she took “all the advised precautions” as soon a...
-- 2020-03-10 20:00:57
Airlines around the world sank deeper into crisis on Tuesday as the worsening coronavirus epidemic and Italy’s lockdown hammered passenger numbers, forced the cancellation of thousands of flight...
-- 2020-03-10 18:09:26
The first two deaths from COVID-19 in Germany were confirmed by local authorities on Monday. A 89-year-old woman from Essen and a 78-year-old man from the district of Heinsberg, both in the western s...
REUTERS 2020-03-10 10:41:44
The whole of Italy will be placed under lockdown until next month, prime minister Giuseppe Conte announced on Monday, in an unprecedented new attempt to beat coronavirus in Europe's worst-affected cou...
-- 2020-03-09 12:12:22
Germany and France withdrew their representatives from North Korea and closed their missions on Monday, the British ambassador there said, amid growing concern in the isolated country about the spread...
AP 2020-03-08 10:39:31
Italy’s prime minister announced a sweeping coronavirus quarantine early Sunday, imposing restrictions on the movement of about a quarter of the country’s population in a bid to contain a...
-- 2020-03-07 16:48:33
The United Kingdom is expected to abolish the so-called tampon tax at the end of 2020, as the Brexit transition period comes to a close. Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak is planning to announc...
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