Tag: COVID-19

• Friday, June 12th 2020 - 10:27 UTC

  Queen Elizabeth marks the beginning of Carers Week

  

  Queen Elizabeth has taken part in her first public video conference call to mark Carers Week, adding another first for the British monarch during her long reign.

• Friday, June 12th 2020 - 10:18 UTC

  Peru: 170 police officers have died of Covid 19 and 10,000 have been infected

  

  At least 170 police officers in Peru have died after contracting the coronavirus while enforcing the South American nation's pandemic lockdown, the interior minister said on Thursday.

• Friday, June 12th 2020 - 10:09 UTC

  Brazil death toll climbs to 40,000 and could overtake Britain this Friday

  

  Brazil has surpassed 40,000 deaths from the novel coronavirus and 800,000 cases, according to the latest figures from the health ministry on Thursday. The news came as the number of Latin American cases of the virus broke through the 1.5 million barrier.

• Friday, June 12th 2020 - 09:59 UTC

  Fallout from pandemic could plunge 395 million people into extreme poverty

  

  The economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic could plunge an extra 395 million people into extreme poverty and swell the total number of those living on less than US$1.90 a day worldwide to more than 1 billion, researchers said in a report on Friday.

• Friday, June 12th 2020 - 09:51 UTC

  Gibraltar residents able to cross the frontier into Spain

  

  Gibraltar confirmed hat following direct contact between the Chief Minister and the Spanish Minister of the Interior, residents of Gibraltar and EU residents of Gibraltar are now able to cross the frontier into Spain.

• Friday, June 12th 2020 - 09:26 UTC

  UK sales of beer slump to the lowest on record, claims Pub Association

  

  UK sales of beer have slumped to the lowest level on the record because of the coronavirus outbreak, trade industry body the British Beer and Pub Association said on Thursday.

• Friday, June 12th 2020 - 08:57 UTC

  UK economy contracted 20,4% in April, according to Stats Office

  

  The UK economy shrank by 20.4% in April, according to figures outlined by the Office for National Statistics on Friday morning.

• Thursday, June 11th 2020 - 12:52 UTC

  EU accuses Russia and China of “unprecedented” Coronavirus “infodemic”

  

  China and Russia were blamed for spewing out false and misleading online information about Covid-19 in a European Union report that seeks to stem the “unprecedented” spread of fake news amid the pandemic.

• Thursday, June 11th 2020 - 12:47 UTC

  Brazil resumed publishing the country's total death toll from Covid-19

  

  Brazil's government resumed publishing the country's total death toll from the coronavirus pandemic, after facing accusations of trying to hide the magnitude of its raging health crisis.

• Thursday, June 11th 2020 - 08:13 UTC

  Flash flood of shoppers in Sao Paulo despite record number of Covid 19 deaths

  

  Brazil's most populous state Sao Paulo reported a record number of COVID-19 deaths for the second day running on Wednesday even as its metropolis allowed shops to resume business and prepared to reopen its malls.