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Russia’s coronavirus cases hit new high, Moscow warns of clampdown
Russia reported 9,623 new cases of coronavirus on Saturday, its highest daily rise since the start of the pandemic, bringing the total to 124,054, mostly in the capital Moscow, where the mayor threatened to cut the number of travel permits.…
Spain’s coronavirus death toll tops 25,000
Spain’s coronavirus death toll hit 25,100 on Saturday after 276 people died overnight, the health ministry said.
Total cases rose to 216,582 from 215,216 on Friday.
Countries must ease lockdowns slowly, be ready for virus to jump back – WHO
Countries must lift lockdowns gradually, while still being “on the look-out” for COVID-19 and ready to restore restrictions if the virus jumps back, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
Vulnerable people in institutions,…
Yemen records first coronavirus case in Taiz province as virus spreads
Yemen reported the first case of the novel coronavirus in a third province late on Friday, raising the number of diagnosed infections to seven with two deaths in one of the world’s most vulnerable countries.
The emergency coronavirus…
Macron warns life ‘won’t be back to normal’ as Covid-19 forces French to find new way of ‘social…
France’s president has said that the national recovery would need to be ‘organized,’ in a speech at the Elysee Palace as the country celebrated a subdued Labor Day, while movement in the country remains tightly restricted.
Emmanuel…
Russia reports almost 8,000 new Covid-19 cases in a record daily rise
Russian health officials have recorded 7,933 new Covid-19 cases since Thursday, according to the daily update. It brings the total number of coronavirus infections in the country to 114,431.
Moscow remains the biggest hotbed for the…
WHO says COVID-19 emergency declaration gave world ‘enough time’
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus gave a robust defence on Friday of his and the World Health Organization’s (WHO) “timely” actions in declaring the new coronavirus an international health emergency at the end of January.
The Jan. 30…
Trump says he has “high confidence” Covid-19 originated in Wuhan lab
US President Donald Trump told reporters he believes Covid-19 originated from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, declining to elaborate why, after US intelligence said it believes the virus was natural in origin.
Asked on…
Iran death toll from coronavirus rises by 63 to 6,091
Iran’s death toll from the outbreak of the new coronavirus increased by 63 in the past 24 hours to 6,091, Health Ministry spokesman Kianush Jahanpur said in a statement on state TV on Friday.
The total number of diagnosed cases of the…
UK is past the peak, says PM Johnson, promising lockdown exit plan
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Britain was now past the peak of its coronavirus outbreak and promised to set out a lockdown exit strategy next week, despite rising deaths and criticism of his government’s response.
“I can confirm…