Coronavirus

Many countries that have been successful in tackling the novel coronavirus are seeing an increase in cases due to religious events and other vulnerable settings like expatriate gatherings, the World Health Organization’s Maria Van Kerkhove…

Europeans are enjoying the gradual easing of coronavirus lockdown measures, but in hospitals they are already preparing for the next wave of infections. “We need a healthcare army,” said Maurizio Cecconi, president-elect of the European…

On Monday, the World Health Organization’s director general said that the global coronavirus pandemic has been exacerbated by polititicisation. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was speaking at a virtual health forum organised by the World…

On Monday, Russia reported 7,600 new cases of the new coronavirus, taking its nationwide case total to 592,280, the world’s third largest tally. The coronavirus taskforce response said 95 people had died in the past 24 hours, bringing…

The number of cases infected with Coronavirus in Jordan since Friday, 7 cases, bringing the total infections nationwide to 1015 cases. The Jordanian authorities explained that one new case is the local community, the other is external,…

The Algerian Ministry of Health announced today, Saturday, that 127 new cases of the new Coronavirus have been registered, taking the total number of cases since the outbreak began to 11631. Health authorities also reported 12 new deaths…

A 78-year-old woman has died in Hong Kong from coronavirus, taking the death toll from the virus in the city to five, with 1,129 cases. Hong Kong has eased social distancing measures aimed at curbing the spread of coronavirus with the…

Italy reported 49 deaths from COVID-19 on Saturday, compared with 47 a day earlier, the Civil Protection Agency said, while the daily tally of new cases rose to 262 from 251 on Friday. The country’s death toll since the outbreak came to…

On Saturday, China’s National Health Commission said that mainland China reported 27 new coronavirus cases as of the end of June 19, 22 of which were reported in the capital Beijing. This compared with 32 confirmed cases a day earlier,…

Brazil on Friday passed a total of more than 1 million coronavirus cases, and nearly 50,000 deaths, according to Health Ministry data. Brazil has recorded 1,032,913 confirmed cases, second only to the United States, with 1,206 new deaths…